Community Office

Thesis Statement

Com-Office is the building type for working purpose architecture. Aiming a new advanced mobility improves to meet the future urban condition, facing the impact by new technologies. Office building consists of space for one or several companies which have similar spatial requirements, to work efficiently and comfortably. However, the transformation to adapt will come. A new prototype is expected to reorganize the working space to advance the working process and improve the mobility by self-driving car. In the Com-Office, each space will be encouraged to embrace the public environment as a singular unit. And its closing condition will free the building closure to achieve a further infusion between the public space and the transformation to wide combination of programs. Com-Office is a prototype, a community, a new urban activity, a future working style, to be more adaptive to the complexity.

 

Description of contexts and key ideas driving the thesis

Self-driving cars are very likely to replace the normal cars in the future, which could be a turning point to change the transportation system, and eventually change the building form and function to be adaptive. An updated transportation system is the premises, where self-driving cars are expected to be more responsible to mobility of space (inner car space) and connections. An adaptive building form will be expected. Unsatisfied factor of the existing office buildings is mobility at the most. There is no portal for self-driving car and no space for it to plug-in as an element. Some might argue that the space can simply be created by removing partial walls, and the portal would just be another opening onto the façade. Surely, if we deem the technology would achieve its summit at self-driving car, there is less value to seek a new approach. However, one thing no merely can be certain that, technology are being developed overwhelmingly, especially VR. Such tendency cannot be avoided and pushes the architects to rethink the mobility in and out the building. Therefore, I take the self-driving car as a commencement to seek the potentials in office building type by setting up the premises of a recent future social and working condition.

 

Description of Project Intended to Test the Thesis Statement

The prototype is the way of seeking the potentials of working place and the relationships between working space and office building, office building and public space, office building in the district, especially within the infusion of new technology. Under the impact of globalization and internet, the new prototype offers a new platform for reunion of co-workers and moving as they wish. Mobility also engenders the consequential space for the office building by accidental combinations, such as municipal building in Hong Kong. So called ‘absurdity’ of functions have been packed into a unity, which implies a future working style, at least a clue. A clue of working in no order, and order in virtual world. Once similar people are connected by the other ways, it might be lead to another picture of office building, against the original idea, where office building only for similar types. We may no longer say working just working, but working beyond the time, working with community and life.

Methodological Processes/ Outline of Research/ Design Experiments

  1. Analysis the history of office building
  2. Major factors
  3. Analysis the existing office buildings (Country, Location, form, layout, output)
  4. Test by extreme factors
  5. Proposal by ideals
  6. Dialogues with architects
  7. Users’ survey and log of their one day routine hierarchically (if I can have)
  8. Proposal by deduction & compare to step 5
  9. Apply the prototype to architecture company & school

 

Supporting Original Visual Materials/Artifactgoogle-driverless-cars

Google self-driving cars, by Aaran Fronda, Wednesday. July 22nd. 2015

 

http://www.theneweconomy.com/business/humans-are-the-only-ones-putting-the-breaks-on-self-driving-cars

 

Annotated Bibliography/ Precedents

https://s-media-cache-21ak0.pinimg.com/originals/5e/29/bd/5e29bd81eb6f149af441d9337b8371e6.jpg

http://legacy.iaacblog.com/rs1intelligentcities/2015/06/landscape-of-experience/

 

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