Systematic Variability

AJ Jackson & Gaby Parra ARCH 3500

Professor Douglas Hecker

Fall 2021

Chelsea, New York

This building is designed to create a new environment that goes against the uniformity and predictability of an office space. With floors shifted in different directions and voids created from these shifts, this building becomes a system of differentiality. Single, double, and triple height spaces creating vertical gardens allow for the natural world to come into the office space while the use of smart glass incorporates individuality, personalization, and variability to the office space while also reducing the use of energy within the building by controlling sunlight. The urban space was created using stepping planes to create different height spaces beneath the ground level of the building. The opportunity to be in multiple different spaces, whether that be underground, in the air, stepping up or down will create a feeling of serendipity of anybody who interacts with this space, never being bored to go to work. The geometry and technology combined is the foundation of the systematic variability with which this building presents.