

Under a concealed door, a Rocket Sentry is kept, seemingly for security, along with numerous monitor screens line the walls and encircle GLaDOS. In the small lobby area, the Aperture Science Red Phone is located next to several computers. GLaDOS is stored in the center of a large octagonal chamber, suspended from the ceiling. Two office areas contain a projection room where a looping slideshow titled " Dollar$ and Sense: Competing with Black Mesa for DoD and Government-wide Acquisition Contracts" can be seen. Clipboards and empty cups are scattered on the desks. Computers seem to be stuck into some sort of loop, some are disconnected, their cases open, and several chairs are knocked over.

The offices contain chairs and computers and seem to have been last used long ago. The offices comprise the observation rooms that the Aperture Science staff used to watch Test Subjects executing their task in the Test Chambers, as well as other offices, connected by dimly-lit corridors. The known Test Chambers range from Test Chamber 00 to 19. This motif continues until Chell escapes, at which point the atmosphere becomes dark and foreboding while Chell navigates through the innards of the Enrichment Center. All of the walls and floors are plain gray, and the overall feeling is one of a clinic or cleanroom. The panel ends with a standard Aperture Laboratories logo at the very bottom.Ī notable feature among the Test Chambers is the stark atmosphere. Under the bar are two rows of five of squares, each containing a logo of what the Test Subject is expected to see in the following chamber.

The number of the current Test Chamber covers the whole upper half of the panel under is the current test's completion bar, with the current chamber number against that of the final one, and the proper completion bar below, getting longer as each Test Chamber is completed (it is made of 76 lines each Test Chamber starts with 4 more lines - Test Chamber 01 starts with 4 lines Test Chamber 00 starts with the 76 lines, reached again at the start of Test Chamber 19). Aperture Science scientists can watch the tests in small offices spread around the test chambers.Įach Test Subject is accommodated in a Relaxation Vault with no privacy, set within a Test Chamber, with transparent walls, and connected to the outside with a portal.(This is the portal 1 relaxation vault not the portal 2.)Īt the start of each Test Chamber is a large rectangular luminous panel that lights itself when the Test Subject approaches, accompanied by a loud hum. The tests are monitored by GLaDOS and security cameras. The Enrichment Center contains numerous "Test Chambers" where Test Subjects are trained to perform simple to complicated tasks with the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device.
