Located in Tainan City, the National Cheng Kung University B.E.S.T. Center serves as a key northern gateway to the campus. The building’s beige ceramic tile façade reflects the tone of the College of Medicine while breaking from symmetry to create a dynamic and eye-catching form.

The structure spans 12 floors, with laboratories organized in clusters from the third floor upward. Three primary open spaces are defined throughout the vertical section: the ground-floor lobby, a sky lobby on the fourth floor, and an open terrace on the seventh floor. The triple-height ground-floor lobby connects to retail, administrative offices, and classrooms. The sky lobby on the fourth floor links to the College of Medicine’s dining floor via a skybridge, flanked by a sunlit atrium to the north and lab clusters to the south. The seventh-floor terrace brings daylight into the central atrium.

Laboratories and research offices are distributed across two wings to the north and south, facing one another across an atrium and connected by skybridges. Dedicated research offices are grouped into modular units along the corridor, with every four offices surrounding a shared space to encourage communication and collaboration among researchers. The lower levels incorporate commercial space with double-height arcades, offering generous pedestrian access. A skybridge connects the center to the existing College of Medicine, reinforcing its role as a gateway to the campus’s northern edge.