INTERLACE

AADRL | Patrik Schumacher Studio

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Being in the twenty-first century, thanks to the rapid growing information technology, the bottom up co-working style has been proven to be more efficient and innovative than traditional working style. 

In this studio, agent-based phenomenology (Gestalt) is the guiding principle to design a dynamic incubator office environment. Gestalt theory introduces that the space we belong to follows the way we perceive the the space. Therefore, the space can be dramatically reformed by minor transformation of spatial triggering elements. Based on this understanding, we applied multi-stability as our design concept that can switch between states economically from its ambiguous property. 

To design an incubator office building, one of the main challenges is from the constantly changing complex interaction among different companies, groups, and job types. To address the challenge, the design started from kinetic furniture and field organization. Different families of furniture act like swarms of living beings interact with users and create a dynamic working environment. The design logic of the “Interlace” multi-stable field is starting from overlapping convex geometries. We generated a poly-grid system to standardize and makes the overlapping events prototypical. Multi-stable field allows switching between different states economically. 

In the architecture perspective, the “Interlace” carries multi-stability concept in a large urban scale. The building is split into four zones. By switching architectural elements such as skylight and partitions, the four zones can be merged together and form larger zones. The flexibility of architectural programming adapts the complex need of future co-working environment. The multi-stability concept has also been carried further into urban scale to form urban grouping and street room. By applying phenomenology theory, the multi-stable “interlace” incubator office has the potential to adapt complex scenario of future working from micro working grouping to macro urban grouping. As users have more freedom to access their need in a highly adaptive environment, we believe they can be much more efficient, creative and inspiring.

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