MOBILISER

Rethinking the modern day office building

This project is set in downtown Decatur, Georgia. We were tasked to design an office building for a furniture company that challenged the traditional office landscape and answered the question, “how can architecture influence the way we work?”. We were to organize the interior in a way that helps individuals housed within to develop a sense of engagement with their colleagues and their work. My design focuses on creating a circulation system that maximizes through traffic within the entire building. The workstations and meeting areas have a small depth from the circulation core and are organized into a “pod”. In each of these pods, it creates a specific area where group identities can be expressed and gives an interface between different groups. I wanted to create a market-like atmosphere where there is a main corridor and shop-like workstations are presenting their work on either side of you. The workstations and circulation system creates a fluid flow throughout the building that allows the entire building to become a “showroom” for potential buyers and for the employees of the company. While the facades of the building are small, the identifying aspect of this building is through the roof-line. The roof is parametrically formed using an abstracted version of the circulation system below to generate the curves used for the roof. The point of departure for the organization of this project is through the concept of the “pod”. These pods are distributed throughout the space and are connected by a continuous ramp. Each of the workstations are on a different level and allows for partitioning of space without hard walls.

ACADEMIC YEAR
Fall 2019

LEVEL
Senior Studio

COURSE
ARCH 4855

INSTRUCTOR
Sonit Bafna