Aperture Science Enrichment Center

"Good people don't end up here."

- GLaDOS

The Aperture Laboratories are the headquarters of Aperture Science and the main location for Portal. Located in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, the facility is monitored by the computer GLaDOS. Parts of the place were damaged when GLaDOS was "destroyed".

Enrichment Center
The facility is used to test one of Aperture Science's most successful achievements, the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device, in the Aperture Science Enrichment Center, or simply Enrichment Center.

Test Chambers
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. The tests are monitored by GLaDOS and security cameras. Aperture Science scientists can watch the tests in small offices spread around the test chambers. GLaDOS once filled most of the center with a deadly neurotoxin, leading to her Morality Core being added.

A notable feature among the Test Chambers is the stark atmosphere. All of the walls and floors are a plain gray, and the overall feeling is one of a clinic or clean room. 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. The known Test Chambers range from Test Chamber 00 to 19.

Maintenance areas
These areas are in a very bad condition, suggesting they have been abandoned for a while. There can be seen tube network (with sometimes broken tubes) that brings the Weighted Companion Cube and Weighted Storage Cubes into the Test Chambers, elevators bringing the Sentry Turrets and other machinery.

During her tests and then her escape, Chell also came across Rat Man dens while going through the maintenance areas.

Offices
The offices are rooms that the Aperture Science staff used to watch test subjects executing their task in the Test Chambers. They contain chairs and computers and seem to have been last used long ago. Computers seem to be stuck into some sort of loop, some are disconnected, their cases open, and several chairs are knocked over. Clipboards and empty cups are scattered on the desks. Other offices contain projection rooms where a slideshow called "Dollar$ and SENSE: Competing with BLACK MESA" can be seen twice.

It is currently unknown if the Test Chambers offices were still used after GLaDOS was created.

GLaDOS's room
GLaDOS is stored in a big room with a small amount of computers, hanging from the middle of the ceiling.

Trivia
The projectors used for the "Dollar$ and SENSE" slideshow appear to be based on the model LC-XT1 by the Eiki company. The texture file includes a remote not seen in-game.

List of appearances

 * ApertureScience.com
 * Portal