# Cybersecurity Experience Centre Design, Noida: Three Design Directions

> Our concept design for a cyber and operational-technology experience centre in Noida: an OT lab, AR-VR and robotics demonstration bays, a SOC and AI development hub, a hardware lab, a 24-seat training studio and a central showcase, planned once and offered in three design directions: Aura (soft futurism), The Technology Gallery (curated technology) and Parallax (cinematic intelligence).

## The brief

An experience centre for a cybersecurity and operational-technology programme on one
office floor in Noida. It had to do four jobs at once: **show** technology to visiting
leaders, partners and students; **teach** it in a training studio; **build and test** it in
labs; and **house** the team that runs it all.

The floor is 9 ft to the ceiling, with the slab at 12 ft. That fixed how much services,
lighting and canopy work the ceiling could take, and it is why every option keeps its
drama on the walls and in the lighting rather than in deep ceiling features.

## How the floor is planned

| Zone | Holds | Why here |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Entrance foyer | Glazed entry, feature wall, reception desk, bench, green wall | A controlled arrival before anything technical is seen |
| Lab edge | OT lab, AR-VR zone, robotics zone, SOC and AI development hub | Along one side, so each lab opens onto the showcase |
| Showcase spine | Experience table with cushioned seating, experience zone with media wall, visitor recognition wall | The route every visitor follows, with something to see at every stop |
| Training studio | 24 seats at hexagonal group tables, media wall | Next to the showcase, glazed so sessions are visible from the passage |
| Support rooms | Hardware lab, library, conference room, server room, sick room | Off the main passage, reached without crossing the labs |
| Team floor | 31 linear workstations, 6 120° workstations, 5 finance workstations, 4 supervisor cubicles, 2 cabins | To one side, so day-to-day work carries on while visitors tour |

The visitor route and the work floor never cross. A tour can run from the foyer, past the
showcase and labs and into the training studio, while the team works undisturbed on the
other side of the glass.

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## The rooms that make it an experience centre

**The OT lab** is a working operational-technology bay: control hardware on perforated
display walls, laptops at a long counter, and screens above, so a trainer can show an
industrial control system being attacked and defended.

**The AR-VR and robotics zones** are lit alcoves side by side, each with a screen and a
display counter, sized for one demonstration at a time.

**The SOC and AI development hub** is the security operations room: desk rows facing a
large video wall, with roller blinds on the windows so the screens stay readable.

**The experience zone** is a curved canopy framing a wide media wall, with touch tablets
along a counter. It is where a host briefs a group before the tour.

**The smart training studio** seats 24 at hexagonal tables of six, for group exercises
rather than lectures, facing a media wall. Its glazed corner keeps sessions visible from
the passage.

**The hardware lab** has a long bench with power at every seat, display shelves for the
devices built and tested there, and a glazed partition with dot-gradient film.

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## Three directions, one plan

| | Aura | The Technology Gallery | Parallax |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Mood | Calm, welcoming, contemporary | Refined, tactile, exhibition-led | Immersive, bold, cinematic |
| Palette | Pearl, petrol, ice blue | Clay, ink blue, sand | Carbon, porcelain, plum |
| Ceiling | Light, with soft luminous discs | Charcoal, visually recessive | Black, with linear light |
| Lighting | Concealed light, even glow | Track spots, focused wall washing | Cyan and amber accents, soft task light |
| Joinery | Ribbed petrol-blue storage, mineral tops | Warm clay storage, recessed handles | Graphite storage, porcelain-look consoles |
| Glass | Wave-pattern and dot-gradient film | Microdot gradient privacy glass | Layered graphic glass, linear film |

All three keep the same plan, furniture positions and room sizes. Only materials, colour
and lighting change. That lets the client choose an atmosphere without reopening the
layout, and keeps the services design the same whichever direction is picked.

**Aura** suits a centre that receives students and first-time visitors: bright, calm and
easy to photograph. **The Technology Gallery** treats the floor like a museum, with a dark
ceiling that disappears and light only where the exhibits are. **Parallax** is the most
theatrical, made for evening events and senior briefings, and needs the most care with
task lighting in the labs.

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## What to settle before construction drawings

- **The demonstration list for each lab**, with the equipment, screens and power each one
  needs. A bay sized before its kit is known gets rebuilt.
- **Cooling and power for the screens, racks and SOC video wall**, sized with the MEP
  design rather than added later.
- **Network design**: which labs sit on isolated networks, and where the server room
  connects to each.
- **Visitor numbers per tour**, which size the showcase spine, the experience zone and the
  foyer.
- **The design direction**, ideally tested with a lighting mock-up, since the three differ
  most in how they are lit.
- **Exit routes** for the training studio and showcase, checked against NBC 2016 Part 4 for
  the full occupant load, including visitors.

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## Taking it to site

We design and build experience centres, labs and offices like this as a single contract,
from concept directions to handover, across Noida and the NCR:
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[more of our designs](/our-designs)

**Planning an experience centre, innovation lab or SOC?** Send the floor plan and the
demonstrations you need. [Talk to the design team](/contact).

## Frequently asked questions

### What is a technology experience centre?

A space built to show technology working rather than describe it. Visitors, partners and trainees walk a route through live demonstrations: an operational-technology lab with real control hardware, AR-VR and robotics bays, a security operations room, and a showcase where a host can run a briefing. It is part showroom, part lab and part classroom, and the interior has to make all three work on one floor.

### How do you plan an experience centre that also has working teams?

Separate the visitor route from the work floor. In this design the showcase, experience zone, labs and training studio sit along a central spine that visitors follow from the foyer, while the team workstations, cabins and support rooms sit to one side. Visitors see the work through glass without walking through it.

### What does a SOC room need in its interior design?

Clear sightlines to a video wall, glare control on every window, quiet surfaces, and power and data at every desk. This SOC and AI development hub uses rows of desks facing a large video wall, roller blinds over the glazing so screens stay readable, and carpet to keep noise down. Cooling and cable routes for the screens and racks are settled with the MEP design, not after it.

### Why offer three design directions on one layout?

Because the layout is driven by the brief and the building, while the atmosphere is a choice. Keeping one plan and changing only materials, colour and lighting lets the client compare moods without reopening the planning: Aura is bright and calm, The Technology Gallery is dark-ceilinged and exhibition-led, and Parallax is immersive and cinematic.

### How should lighting differ in an experience centre and an office?

An office is lit evenly for work; an experience centre is lit to direct attention. Here, Aura uses large luminous ceiling discs and concealed light for a soft, even glow; The Technology Gallery uses a charcoal ceiling with track spotlights that wash the exhibit walls; Parallax adds cyan and amber accents with soft task light. Labs and the SOC hub still get proper task lighting in all three.

### Can Hagerstone design and build an experience centre or innovation lab in Noida?

Yes. We work across Noida and the NCR as a design and build contractor. Send the floor plan, the list of labs and demonstrations you need and the visitor numbers you expect, and we will prepare concept directions like these before anything is drawn for construction.

## Sources

- [NBC 2016, Part 4](https://www.bis.gov.in/standards/national-building-code/) — Fire and life safety — means of egress for business occupancy

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