PHASE 2_Vortexture
Madhuri Machchhi, Miroslav Naskov, Qi Liu, Xianfang Chan
Our project dismisses the traditional conception of the workplace and rethinks new paradigms that bring in the “lucidifiction” of work, that is the merging of play and work. It puts forward an architecture that is agile and challenges the conventional ideas of and static typologies and organisation, an architecture that is in constant fluctuation.
During the weekdays, the proposed office creates a user interface that is productivity-based, while in the weekends the floor plan reshuffles to encourage a creativity-based layout that allows for more communal areas and meeting zones. Likewise, during the summer the terrace merges with the landscape and is open for the neighbourhood and staff members alike to allow outdoor activities for both play and work. In the winter, when the users spend more time inside the envelope, the terrace converts into a series of skylights, letting sunlight into the building. The exciting part of this type of architecture is its capacity to generate different environments rather than one. The properties of the furniture, light, floor, ceiling, façade, canopy, terraces, and structure system change as the building changes with the hour, day, week and season, thereby offering spatially dynamic possibilities to the user.

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