PHASE 2_Cor(al)ations
Michel Ghulmiyyah, Maria Laura Barriola, I-Tzu Wang, Yu Sun
The research of COR(AL)ATIONS relies on a scenario-based design process that incorporates the dynamic behavioural and social patterns of human agents within a space. We explore new workspace typologies that aim to develop the ideal tech start-up incubator in the city of London. This included the testing of new spatial typologies that could emerge as a result of the interaction of human agents in a workspace alongside the surrounding kinetic systems designed specifically to enhance performance. As a challenge to the conventional workplace that is spatial and communicatively static, the project integrates the spatial complexity of the studied typologies thus creating a hybrid system. This is achieved at varying scales, from furniture to the urban, allowing for a correlation between each and integrated with the human agents.
COR(AL)ATIONS claims that flexible and dynamic spatial patterns are the key for future, efficient workspace design, which is achievable through the application of the concepts of ‘phenomenology’ to both the design process as well as the space itself. This can result in new spatial, social, circulation and communication patterns that can contribute to the success and health of a variety of different sizes and types of start-ups within an incubator.

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