Coming Spring Semester, the MSc2Public Building Studio explores thefuture of the corporate office building.The Covid-19 pandemic has abruptly challenged a decade of corporate realestate and workplace design decisionsby calling into question the purpose oflarge centralized office locations. Also, thefunction of the office is shifting away from traditional work processes and oversightto more collaborative, educationaland social needs of a growing hybridworkforce. The studio will reimagine theurban office in its scale and design of thework place, developing strategies in whichcollective spaces can be publicly sharedwith urban residents. Additionally, this newtypology could facilitate more high-quality connections.

The Public Enfilade by Konstantina Schoina, Chiara Tobia, Zheng Wu - Studio ‘(inter)action! The New State Building’ Spring Semester 2020

The studio departs from an existent vacantbuilding waiting to be recharged. Students are asked to elaborate different aspects ofmaterial and immaterial qualities, wherearchitecture can both denote and bearcultural significance beyond its spatiallimits. Regarding the urban phenomenaof the city as ambiguous territory, students need to center their attention on theeveryday life, the formal and the informal,the notion of constructing identity,stressing the development of various architectural models and strategies. Thestudio will focus on the implementation ofseveral experimental ways of exploring,researching and designing with theambition to construct a new corporateidentity for the urban office.

TutorsNicola MarzotSien van DamGosia Golabek

ContactSien van Dama.m.f.vandam@tudelft.nl

Student assistantBenoît Marcoub.f.a.e.marcou@tudelft.nl

Code AR2AP010Credits 15 ECTSLocation T.B.AExcursion To site (provided the

conditions related to Covid-19 will allow us)

Costs -

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21Coming Spring Semester, the MSc2 Public Building Studio explores the future of the corporate office building. The Covid-19 pandemic has abruptly challenged a decade of corporate real estate and workplace design decisions by calling into question the purpose of large centralized office locations. Also, the function of the office is shifting away from traditional work processes and oversight to more collaborative, educational and social needs of a growing hybrid workforce. The studio will reimagine the urban office in its scale and design of the work place, developing strategies in which collective spaces can be publicly shared with urban residents. Additionally, this new typology could facilitate more high uality connections.

The studio departs from an existent vacant building waiting to be recharged. Students are asked to elaborate different aspects of material and immaterial qualities, where architecture can both denote and bear cultural significance beyond its spatial limits. Regarding the urban phenomena of the city as ambiguous territory, students need to center their attention on the everyday life, the formal and the informal, the notion of constructing identity, stressing the development of various architectural models and strategies. The studio will focus on the implementation of several experimental ways of exploring, researching and designing with the ambition to construct a new corporate identity for the urban office.

TutorsNicola Marzot Sien van Dam Gosia Golabek

Code AR2AP010Credits 15 ECTSLocation t.b.a.Excursion To site (pro-

vided theconditions related toCovid-19 will allow us).

Costs -

Public BuildingMSc2 Design Studio (INTER)ACTION! Adaptive Strategies for the Urban Office

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The Public Enfilade by onstantina Schoina, Chiara Tobia, heng u Studio (inter)action! The New State Building Spring Semester 2020

Project type [Practice related]

Approved Master 2 Architecture design project

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