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Cover page & Introduction

Where do I work?Placemaking at every scale

Working in Höfdabakki 9, do I feel well? Is

my quality of life addressed, am I helathy,

comfortable and proud there? Is it the

right environment for my employer and

me to exchange our resources and

A friendly, sustainable working environmentNordic Built Challenge Finland

re-WORK pseudonym 01031

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re-WORKing environments

Where do you feel you work and why would you go to a physical working place at all?

That is the key question behind this proposal; a fundamental approach to a fundamental brief. The fundamental questioning is what attracted us in the Finnish edition of the Nordic Built Challenge. We have opened our minds and we have re-thought the concept of office work and office architecture beyond hip smart-working concepts, trendy cloud and one-liner sustainability. This proposal is a step to integrate new concepts and re-think the office experience.

It is a fact that knowledge work is changing. The evolution from production to smart work is spectacular and has real consequences. The question now are:1. What will come next?2. What does this mean for the physical work space formerly known as the office?3. How does this tie in with sustainable futures?

These three questions are addressed in a design manner in this proposal. The concept of time has turned out to play the key role in our solutions. Time of experience speed as in the cloud versus focus and concentration, occupancy patterns, and meetings versus silence. All these notions can be translated back to spatial experiences.

Our hypothesis is that the loose, cloudy

work organizations do require a physical

counter point. One that is very tangible,

tactile and slow once you are there.

A place that offers various, opposing,

qualities that you do not have at home or

elswhere in the city: organize these well

and a succesful office will be the result. .

Variation means speed: different

experiences are required at various

moments. Adaptability and variation form

the starting point of this innovative quest.

Towards a new workfloor

Trends in work: dynamic relation with organization and workplace

Knowledge work is rapidly developing towards more free and loosely organized forms of

collaboration, communication and inter-relations

Thesis: A physical office still plays a critical role in an employee’s work life, this is a new and

multifaceted role

Office as a place where various speeds are at work

Thesis: Added value to the infinite possibilities offered by the cloud are to be very real, tangible

and physical qualities. A well-defined new type of work space can offer this.

Why still go to a physical workplace?

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now tomorrow

Fast and Slow

-Paradox

-Hyperspace

meets authentic

roots

-Global and place

bound

-Office - worker

interactivity

source: The Spontaneous City, UUD, 2011

0 50 100 150 200 150 years

users

hypothesis:

office usage

functions

buildings

interior

urban structure

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re-WORKing atmosphere

productiondevelop

think

find focus

engage

engagemeet

invent

connect

organize

Smartwork office: loose network of connected various work typesConcept collage of the new office: not clean and neutral but outspo-

ken, sparse, tantalizing, adventurous, alive and personal all at once

Placemaking at work?

The future workplace is not one idea and one

space: it is an accumulation of ideas and

types ; an array of functional, architectural

and urban spaces and concepts. As in the

situation of the city outside it has to perform

many and often opposing functions.

The village square

The space where you meet acquaintances,

where you have a coffee while discussing

some project issues, where you have chance

encounters and can observe unexpected

scenes of others.

The food court in the mall

Where at a number of different booths

different meals can be ordered; not high

cuisine but necessary to keep you going:

administration, HR, IT support, library

functions, development review etc.

The open space in the forest

Where the authentic atmosphere of the city

enters the office, where you feel where you

are, where the local sense of place offers

necessary grounding and a sensation

of rootedness. This clears the head and

increases health an well-being.

The ZEN & focus moment

Focus like you cannot at home, quiet

comfortable and breezy, as if you were cozy

snuggling into a business class airline seat.

Enjoy the care and work away!

The new smart office: open, varied, outspoken

The combination of these archetypical

spaces forms a peculiar specific cocktail

that answers a lot of questions that the

new office asks us.

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re-WORK: Eco-Efficiency

ONOFF OFF

INTEGRATED SOLUTION:-Climatological zoning: Building that is only put ’’ON’’ (lights, ventilation, heat-

ing) for as many people as are in the building

-Office typology based on a diagonal grid with public central squares and

facade-oriented cubicle pods

climate zoning potential

building insulation shiels closed

part of the building that is ‘‘ON’’

in use

HVAC light IT

0 25 50 75 100%

energy harvest ambition

Dynamic hybernating Energy+ building

The yearly energy usage of a moderately

performing building is built up of various

components. Altogether the zoning for

selective use helps enormously to reduce

energy demand across the board. The

spatial demand reduction is topped

up by a time-demand reduction that is

provided in this proposal: The building

will only use energy when and where

people actually are present and using it.

On moments the building is not in use it

will close itself and go to sleep, the way

lilies close themselves up at night.

From energy-guzzling to smart dynamics

smart work generation

46%

40% m2 demand60% more efficient

for who?54% personally attributed

= non-efficient

This is the structure....Solid, straightforward, generic, boring, no

character

This is the challenge....Contemporary, fit for smart work generation,

60% more space-efficiency

This is the problem....Non-intelligent, repetitive, no familiarity, no sense

of place or identiy

This is the problem....46% of GFA as unassigned overhead space

This is the problem....Day and night the facade losses energy, even with

very low occupancy Without usage the building can (partly) close

itself like a sleeping lily flower

Energy demand reduction strategy in steps

(current situation =100%; estimated demand proportions

based on US / European experience)

current

60% space

efficiency

40% occupation

efficiency

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re-Generate applicability

A new timebased office typology

Existing structure and staircases

Specially treated floor:

tactyled pixels; project any pattern

or image

Office typology with flexible

walls: no corridors only spaces

Integrated new typical office floor: Office typology

with flexible walls: no corridors only spaces

New climate facade can

close itself into hybernation

No more corridors

The new office typology combines a number of qualities into a new integrated proposal:

1. A series of triangular enclosed spaces is created: The PODS. They encroach the facade for daylight and form an insulating when not used. The rest spaces are diamondshaped: the communal spaces of the office. They replace the traditional corridor.

2. A system of closing climate walls is put in place that can reduce the office at any point to the required size. This saves energy and has a social component: there are always other people where you work.

3. IT integration: The office knows where you are and knows when you can be expected. It will prepare itself for you. Through the alignment of electronic agendas, statistical patterns and GPS tracking the office will be able to anticipate the required spaces, temperatures etc. per day and hour.

4. Facade as a living membrane: The facade systematically closes up into hybernation when it knows no users will be expected in its spaces. Therefore the energy use of the building gets an extreme boost in yield efficiency.

5. Atmosphere. The floor in combination with the different triangular individual office ‘‘pods’’ can make all types of atmospheres, fit to the right occasion.

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re-WORK: genral applicability

Spaces not in use: facade closes

Spaces in use: facade opens

The building comes alive with a dynamic interactive skin

do I work?The facade of the building acts as a living membrane: It systematiclly closes up into hybernation when it knows no users will be expected in its spaces. Therefore the energy use of the building gets an extreme boost in yiield efficiency.

The result on the outside is that the building communicates more with the surroundings: It is visible when and where people are at work and where the buidling is open and ON.

The porposal is to entirel replace the facade with an intelligen facade that can close up and in which HVAC is entirely integrated into the facade panels. The local climate conditioning is efficient and avoids energy loss as well as heavy ducts etc through the entire building: energy is transported by means of water. New floor heating is propsed in a ne top layer of the concrete floors, in addition to this comfort warmth + cooling is combined with the local ventialtion in the

facade paneling. Openable windows will

remain.

A dynamic facade that opens and closes

Impression of proposed integrated facade panels upgrade, including local

ventilation inlet and outlet per facade element. This increases indivudual

and local steering possibilities. Heat exchange between in and outgoing air

takes place; energy is tranported by small water pipes

Impression of proposed integrated facadepanel from

outside:integrated ventilation + open and closing

insulated panels in front of windows

Impression of new facade, which communicates clearly what part

is alive and in use with the open window panels

active concreteventilation unit

integrated in new

facade

light + sun shading

openable windows

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A new understanding of office typology

0 2 5 10m

1- Entrance 2- Reception3- Work/meeting room4- Stairs / elevators5- Toilets & service6- Board room

Functions Key

7- Library8- Work POD9- Informal offices/meeting10- Catering point11- Server/printroom

combined floorplan axonometric

Illustrative floor plan

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Open flexible dynamic spaces and individual office PODS

A new rhythm of triangular spaces is created with the triangular individual closed spaces using the facade and the rest spaces are the communal spaces of the office. They replace the corridor.

The office dwill adapt to user intensity and can be programmed to suit moods and events alike. Most importatnly, it willl know you and you r wishes and will prepare jsut the right room for you and your meeting, work session etc. The pods look calm and closed when out of use and have a legible shabe whe teh door is used: another level of personality to the office experience.

A chain of indivudal ‘PODS’ forms an intelligent facade zone

Open varied central space is heart of the office;atmospheric, flexible, multi-usable

Climate - walls enlarge or reduce the climatized space according to usage and demand

When in use, the POD shows an opening to the outside

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Where do you work?

IT integration: The office knows where you are and knows when you can be expected. It will prepare itself for you. Through the alignment of electronic agendas, statistical patterns and GPS tracking the office will be able to anticipate the required spaces, temperatures etc. per day and hour.

The office that knows you are coming

Impression of a public square in the office in closed position Textures and coloours will change the atmosphere

in and around the offices