THE TELE- WORK SPACE A new protoype office space enhancing telecommuting for a new work environment withstanding the physical and virtual worlds.
Master thesis project The Tele-work space Studio: Nathan’s house / Artificial intelligence Presented by: Supervised by: First advisor: Second advisor:
Dina Fahim 4063323 Professor Krassimir Krastev Engineer Andrea Menardo
Dessau International architectural school Anhalt university of applied sciences Master thesis year 2016/2017
Table of content Acknowledgment
Design system
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Abstract
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Conclusion
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Thesis proposal
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Bibliography
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Telecommuting
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Case study
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Prototype design
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Transfigurable environment Design proposal
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Site analysis
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Experiment
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A C K N O W L E D G M E N T
First of all I would like in this page to honor everyone who helped me during my work process and development phases. Especial thanks to my professor Krassimir Krastev and Engineer Andrea Menardo for their continous support and direction the whole year. Especial thanks to my mother whom I owe a lot in life and for being supportive with all guidance and to my father for his support by myside. Many thanks also to my sister. A very especial honour to BuroHappold Engineering team who participated in my learning process and guiding me with structural technicalities. The environment in BuroHappold was my case study that launched a lot of ideas and approaches to my project throughout my own personal analysis as being part of thier team for a quite long time. Thanks a lot to all my friends and everybody who guided me with advices, opinions and enthusiasm during the whole year. I would like to honor my grandfather’s soul who has just passed away, who participated in my encouragement and mental support and had always been by myside during my masters studying period and my whole life. He had always believed in my ability to be successful in the academic arena. I would like to tell him, “ You are gone but your belief in me has made this journey possible.�
A B S T R A C T
This master thesis is studying “Telecommuting� in the modern society and it’s effect on employees within the use of modern technology in the twenty first century. It also discusses applications and proposes architectural design solutions and guidelines for optimizing the performance of employees and enhancing better productivity through the work environment.
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T H E S I S
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Introduction This master thesis is studying and applying the ideology of “Telecommuting” on work lifestyle of employees. Telecommuting is a term defining distance within a time frame. Such that, it gives the users the availability of practicing certain actions distantly. Examples of telecommuting are, Telework, Tel-shopping, tel-socializing, telelearning and telecommunications. The type of telecommuting chosen in this thesis is “Telework”, which means giving the employees the availability and options of choosing their own working space distantly according to their own preferences. Telework has various positive effects on architecture. Starting from the interior performance of a space, a space would be redesigned according to users different configuration patterns. Buildings would perform better through introduction of new techniques and design solutions to architecture, adapting with temporal usages of spaces. Globally, cities would be preplanned through land-uses redistribution, reconfiguration of property ownerships and decentralization of services in certain land dense plots especially in high dense capital cities like Berlin, Tokyo, New York, Hong Kong,.... -
Therefore, the idea of a typical stable office space would be partially reduced in terms of area and concept, achieving a different reconfiguration approach in architecture.
Hypothesis With the development of modern technology and easy communication networks, the need of a new communicated work environment is needed for employees new work lifestyle. Different telecommunication activities are coordinated nowadays through the Internet of things with the assistance of mobility services and artificial intelligent smart solutions for connectivity such as mobile applications, online platforms and social online networking which has also an influence on the modern work lifestyle of employees.
Project Description This thesis is developing various working configurations experiments and introducing new design solutions for distant office spaces. This is developed with the assistance of the developed technological system “Augmented reality” and it’s application on the architecture of workspaces. The thesis is showing through design development, the top down effect of Telework in the modern society on different architectural levels starting from the interior configurations of a space, to the building performance stage and the urban scale development effect.
Application of Telework on the work-lifestyle of employees would allow them create their own personal spaces, which is defined as all spaces surrounding them that encompasses the area where they would feel safe and comfortable. Thus employees are allowed to choose their own preferable spaces and be still connected to their own employment original spaces through online networking. Therefore, in this thesis, the architectural effects of Telework are considered and new proposed design guidelines are introduced for Telework and teleworkers. Thesis proposal | 2
T E L E C O M M U T I N G The ability of telecommunication networking to provide employees the freedom of choosing their work spaces
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Telecommuting Effects Community balance: Job seekers would have a balanced chance of having jobs if desks are distributed all over the city. Better chances for the disabled and workers in suburbs, for co working near their houses without spending money or effort going to their jobs everyday. Economic development: Growth of the community, decentralization of offices and rents distribution among owners. Organizational flexibility: Employees have their choice of choosing and organizing their own spaces, being connected through online communication networking to their original office, working colleagues and managers through online platforms and networking.
Community Balance
Facilities Management
Environmental Influences
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Environmental balance: Less usage of cars and less pollution to the environment Facilities management: Risk management, health and safety and mobility services are coordinated through online communication networks with Telework for their own safety outside the office and system management. Life Style: Telecommuting would give the employees the chance of spending more time with family and friends, and meeting people from other businesses. Thus having a better life balance.
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Economic Development
Better Lfiestyle
Organizational Flexibility
Telecommuting Effects Job opportunities
Sustainable spaces Risk management -HR Considerations
Decentralization
Cost management
Facility management
-Low operational costs
Utlilization rates
-Less people concentration
Decreasing commuting times
Teleworkcommuting
Environmental concerns
Decentralization output
Emergence for rural areas residents
Economic development
Breaking responsibilities to smaller units
Life style considerations
“Empowerment� management tool
Equal rents in cities Family integrationL
ess travelling time
Community integration
Equality in community types
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Telecommuting Effects Less need of highways & travels
-Businesses near each other
Less urban sprawls
-Strong urban and buildings connections
Increase usage of car pooling for meetings
-Reusage of spaces
Infrastructures & cities
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-Disabled people ability to work
-More livable cities
-Retired people ability to work
-Shifts in socioeconomic classes
-Equal and high standards of living
-Increse in discretionary time
-Car ownership reduction
-Home workspaces
Telecommuting Effects
Community & Collaboration
Third spaces meetings
Co-working Co-housing Fractional ownership Space utilization
“BA�: Sharing knowledge between employees Sharing ideas Knowledge generation Creativity Territorial spaces
Telecommunications
Telecommuting Teleshopping Telesocializing Teleworking
Space belonging
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Internal Office Analysis BuroHappold Engineering Wilmersdorf area, Berlin, Germany The office is centralized in Wilmersdorf area in Berlin, surrounded by mostly mixed use buildings, governmental old buildings and offices, with easy and accessible transportation.
Through a personal experience in the office in Berlin, office analysis was pointed out, showing the main important held activities in the office as hot desking as a main privilege, formal and semi formal meeting areas existing in managers rooms and in two big meeting rooms. Also, printing and collaboration areas for business briefings are held in one area for collaboration. Hotdesking: Accessibility of personal computer information and working folders is provided in all working areas in the office as in meetings, working areas, managers rooms or even from other offices location. this provides flexibility of movement and allows different teams collaborations.
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Health Mixed Use (Residential + Shops) Education Offices Governmental Infrastructure Religious
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Moreover, there is also a lack of artificial intelligent designed systems in the space, such as employees social online network connectivity, manage mental facilities for supporting employees during work (eg. health and safety and risk management). There is also unavailability of co working due to the online communication Internet problems has led to the stability of space and daily routine problems.
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From a psychological point of view, the employees exposure to the nature and open views, interactive spaces and outdoor and indoor collaboration areas would produce better productivity rather than internal exposure to high positioned seniors or managers.
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The location of managers, in the middle of the office give an exposure effect to employees and affect their feeling of trust.
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The main problems in the office are pointed out to be the increase of chun rate employees, unavailability of work spaces due to the spaces distribution by superiority not equally distributed
DISM OF S ANAGEM PAC ENT ES
Analysis of office problems
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Analysis conclusion Collaboration
Design guidelines are created for a new proposed office space in order to create a top down effective space for enhancing employees performance as a result of the studied analyzed problems.
Informal relationships Organized worksystem less timing in drafs
-Doubl faced partitions -Organized filings -Paperless system -Security -Cleaning -Food quality -Held events -More exposure -Landscape -Encouragement
Private spaces View Less noisy and polluted areas dynamic spaces More interesting spaces Lighting Service Quality Healthy space Meetering of space Connectivity
-More sorroundings -Smooth surfaces -Smooth furniture -Insulated partitions -Less pollution -Technology -Smart office -Feeling need to work -Good weather -Connection to space -Nodes for interactions -Meeting points during day -Evaluation of spaces -System tracking -Heathy system -Prevention from bacteria -Prevention from components and chemicals -Well artificial and natural lightings -Easy movement inside spaces
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Design guidelines SEMIPRIVATE SPACES
HEALTH & SAFETY
SPACE MANAGEMENT
ENTERTAINMENT SPACES
MOBILITY SERVICE
MEETERING SPACES
ENERGY EFFICIENCY
MAINTENANCE
PAPERLESS
SERVICE
SYSTEM DESIGN
SECURITY
AGAINST POLLUTION
DYNAMIC MOVEMENT
RISK MANAGEMENT
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Design guidelines
HEALTH & SAFETY -Landscape integration -Ventilation -Less contamination and emission rates of materials -Sensors for humidifaction ,heating and cooling levels -Water management -Pleasancy and openess -Curvy shaped edges for more feeling of integration -Intelligent systems for right postures avoiding health problems MAINTENANCE -Lifecycle of equipments -All hardware elements -Tracking elements theough IDs
SECURITY -Safety in the place -Intelligent systems for determining the entry and exit of spaces -Secured intelligent systems for hotdesking system and data transfer
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SYSTEM DESIGN
SACE MANAGEMENT -Space usage affecting landuse -Space customization -Creating dynamism of space -PAPERLESS -Waste management -Doxie flip scanners -Freefax apps -Filing systems when needed -More digital filings -Digital files upload on hotdesking
MOBILITY SERVICE -Employees interaction -Hot desking -Integration of freelancers, interns and parttimers -Hotelling of spaces -Integration of all employees and parties together -integration of management services -Integration of managers with employees -Eliminating the idea of catergories and heirarchy
AGAINST POLLUTION -Noise: Movement of partitions that create isolation -Materials election with low VOCs and chemical radiations on space -Movement of spaces create customization -Well ventilation
SEMIPRIVATE SPACES -Transitioning spaces -For skypemeetings and calls -Can be accessed by other users for personal calls ENTERTAINMENT -Spaces for total fun inside the office -Less feeling of supervision -Kitchen area for eating -Meeting nodes as coffee machine areas,sofas in the nodes of the space -Gaming zones -Zones for chatting and personal calls
Design guidelines
SERVICE -Cleaning -Food quality -Spaces for dining -Systems as free breakfasts in mornings for encouragment MEETERING SPACES -Sensors and intelligent systems for elements tracking -Evaluating the quality of space
SYSTEM DESIGN
DYNAMIC MOVEMENT -Desk movement -Partitions movement -Space movement -Employees movement -Managemental movement -Space open to new activities
RISK MANAGEMENT -Technology -Services cost consideration -Post occupancy consideration
ENERGY EFFICIENCY -TIP(Total integrated power system) -Automatic heating and cooling supplies -Intelligent systems for avoiding bacterias like Pseudomonas from HVAC -Suspended ceiling for creating less volume for air and height variations -Intelligent systems for affecting health of space Ex. Humidifiers, cooling and heating needed according to space needs
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Design process The process started through creating experimental prototypes for a group of workers in the studied office and then introducing their interactions and configuration patterns through artificial intelligence. The main concept is distributing a group of employees in different places to enhance different experience scenarios. The places chosen were cafeteria, restaurant, park area, library and university library for students. The designed prototype as an example, was chosen according to the analysis of a certain group of people in the studied office whom their main activities are mainly internal meetings, social activities, work breaks and research. Their proposed working space is a cafeteria. Other group of people doing other activities more often on a daily basis, would be suggested to work in other places. For example, managers attending external meetings or site visits, would be suggested to working in another co working office or construction sites if needed. People who travel a lot, would be suggested having desks in airports and train-stations. Other category of analyzed group of people can be suggested to work in parks or restaurants.
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Mobile applications with guided softwares for employees would be provided for suggesting different spot working locations according to their activities analysis in the office space.
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Physical desk interaction The main attractor point in the proposed design is the interactive hot desking, that is reserved through the shared online platform. The desk interacts physically with an employee, such that it changes it’s height , shape and expands according to users preferences, adjustments, and health and safety of employees.
Digitalized paper
Table shelves
Digitalized paper location
Enlarged desk
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Reading partition
Table Interaction
Lamp Digitalized paper
Reading partition
Table shelves
Laptop Working desk
Digitalized paper location
Enlarged desk
Movable chair
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Design process The process started through creating experimental prototypes for a group of workers in the studied office and then introducing their interactions and configurational patterns through artificial intelligence. The main concept is distributing a group of employees in different places to enhance different experience scenarios. The places chosen were cafeteria, restaurant, park area, library and university library for students. The designed prototype as an example, was chosen according to the analysis of a certain group of people in the studied office whom their main activities are mainly internal meetings, social activities, work breaks and research. Their proposed working space is a cafeteria. Other group of people doing other activities more often on a daily basis, would be suggested to work in other places. For example, managers attending external meetings or site visits, would be suggested to working in another co-working office or construction sites if needed. People who travel a lot, would be suggested having desks in airports and train stations. Other category of analyzed group of people can be suggested to work in parks or restaurants. Mobile applications with guided softwares for employees would be provided for suggesting different spot working locations according to their activities analysis in the office space.
Office desk prototype
Hotdesking
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Physical versus Digital
Walls Partitions
The main concept of creating a mobile office, and letting the employees choose their work location, is combining the physical mobile chosen work space with the augmented digital media as a type of artificial intelligence, for assisting employees to combine platforms in one place. The digital media source is augmented reality and it is the reflection of the original office space environment digitally on all the architectural physical elements (eg. floors, ceilings and partitions), existing in the chosen mobile space. This technique would augment the office needs and environment digitally, in the co working mobile space chosen by employees.
View Openess environment Landscape Spaces integration
Office space
Library / documentation files
Desk elements
Team work
Employees in various mobile spaces are also connected through a communication network online platform, for a better mobile integration.
Food and drink
Entertainment
Cafeteria
Music Sports Watching
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Digitalized
Physical environment
Facilities Management Design Systems I-Health and safety Each employee would have a mobile application that would be responsible for guiding employees in the cafeteria as a chosen mobile work space. The application is responsible of measuring the blood pressure and suggesting best menu food or drinks in the cafeteria for a better employee’s health.
Fire exists
Accidents
Security
The application would also suggest going to a doctor or stopping work and having a break if the health of an employee is not in an appropriate condition for concentration. The application would also suggest an employee doing sports or having a walk break, and would also collect employees of the same state together, for meeting businesses together.
Data base management
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II- Risk management Employees would be guided to the nearest fire exist, and through the Internet of things (IOT) signals connected to fire exit doors would survive employees in case of fire.
Let’s have a walk! :)
Need a green smoothy? ;)
Sports
High blood pressure
Through the connection with the mobile application, employees would be guided safely to the nearest fire exit door out of the building. The application is connecting employees together through a shared platform and would notify the employee’s manager at work in case of accidents about the employee and the need of help.
Physical state Age Heart beat Food prefences Best beverages
Sickness
Fatigue / Headache
Shall we have a coffee ;)
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Physical versus Digital Office environment augmented in the mobile work space (cafeteria), creating an integration between the existing physical space (cafeteria)and the reflection of the office digitally on all architectural elements in the space. Employees can be seeing reflected models and being augmented in it through the space. Employees wear their augmented reality goggles or head phones and they are connected through an online network to their office space and communicate with other employees in the office or in any other mobile workspaces. Different screens reflecting the engineering needed models are augmented in the mobile work space area (cafeteria). The augmented reflections are adjusted on walls, ceilings, floors and partitions perfectly, to enhance an integrated physical digital scene in the new mobile work environment.
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New different window scenes are augmented for employees in the cafeteria by wearing their goggles, they can be seeing another exciting environment or views augmented in the physical existing mobile work space. The online network communications is connecting employees in various places through an online connected platform.
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Management Systems The system works through data base management system (Building Information modeling (BIM), such that each employee has an online social platform with a work profile. Each employee inputs his/her choice of the preferable work location and logins in to his/her profile. The system outputs data for:
1- Employees: -The system determines the route to the chosen mobile space location with navigation. It also shows the working desk view with facilities, working team and the work environment of a certain day and the chosen place facilities.
2-Managers and developers: -The system provides a rating of how much savings to the environment such as water savings, light energy savings, cost savings, maintenance, chun rate costs and profit increase. Risk management and health and safety of employees shall be determined with a rating system output.
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DATA INPUT
Location Work profile
DATA OUTPUT
Internet of things (IOT)
Coworking space1
Through the Internet of things, building elements as floors, windows, walls, doors, ceilings and spatial equipments start to interact with users through numbers calculations for Telework system rating. The goal is calculating the floor area usage, energy costs and savings, maintenance accessibility control as well as security system and risk management ratings.
Coworking space2
Coworking space2
BIM
Thus, knowing “HOW MUCH IS SAVED?� Through the application of Telework on the space efficiency through installed systems and for employees higher efficiency.
Coworking space3
Coworking space3
Coworking space4 Floor: Floor area Space usage Dynamic movement
Windows: Ventilation rate Natural lighting
Cafeteria
Restaurant Walls: Electrical usage Energy efficiency Water consumption Fire system
Library
BIM
Spatial equipment: Maintenance problems
University
House Ceiling: Lighting efficiency Energy efficiency
Doors: Security system Accessibility Fire & safety
Airport
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Survey Analysis Employees in BuroHappold were given a survey discussing the preferences and tendency to apply telecommuting and choosing their distance office with mobility services and communication networks connected to their own office, colleagues and managers. The result of the survey was that employees had the fear of changing their work spaces, or in other words, work in the public areas like caffees, restaurants, libraries or parks without having their own office space with daily communications and connectivity with supervisors and colleagues.
Psychological Theory: Professor Leich in his book “Camouflage�, discussed the psychology of people while changing places, and especially how do they get used to a certain space even if it is not comfortable for them. He gave an example of a person traveling and staying in a cheap hostel in a nasty room for three or four days and when he leaves the place heading to another destination, he realizes that he got attached to that place and in a certain way, he doesn’t want to leave it. Therefore, people need shelter or a place where they feel dedicated to. Especially employees, practicing daily routines and interacting with colleagues of the same business even more than family or friends.
Conclusion: From that line, this reflects the necessity of architecture as playing a big role in the physiological feelings of employees, dedicating them to spaces and provides them the opportunity for a better performance. Besides that, the necessity of space optimization and employees needs to change and more exposure to outer life apart from the office also reflects the big integration role that should occur between architecture
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Literature theoretical review “How can buildings require little modifications and be adaptable over time and how can the spaces and buildings feel integral with users? There is something called “Growth” which is a turnover that defeats adaptation and would make the difference between a building that it better or worse…..”, Stewart Brand, How Buildings Learn? Steward Brand explained in his book “How buildings learn?” that building layers are arranged according to the speed of change, such that the slowest layer of change is the outer layer representing the skin, then comes the structures, services, space plan and the fastest layer of change is the furniture. Therefore, the attractor point and the fastest layer of change chosen is the desk which is related to the stuff layer. By changing the desk configuration in a space to a mobile co working reserved desk, will change the outer connected building layers until it affects the whole building skin layer. Therefore, architecture and building structures will be adaptive with the furniture reconfigurations in work spaces. Different decentralized work locations, temporal furniture, new desks configurations, would affect the architecture and the structure of an office building, reaching optimized interactive structural elements for a new typology of an office building, showing it’s own architectural identity.
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T R A N S F I G U R A B L E E N V I R O N M E N T Transfigurable augmented real environment is a kind of artificial intelligence tool for creating an integrative cyber physical environment that encompasses the physical with the augmented digital reflections in one place.
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“The distinction between unfamiliar and familiar, reality and illusion is not clear, thus reality is merely an illusion and a portal to elsewhere.� Albert Einstein
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Augmented Reality
Haley’s model of cognition:
“I’m excited about Augmented Reality(AR), because unlike Virtual Reality which closes the world out,” Cook explained, “AR allows individuals to be present in the world but hopefully allows an improvement on what’s happening presently. Most people don’t want to lock themselves out from the world for a long period of time and today you can’t do that because you get sick from it. With AR you can, not be engrossed in something, but have it be a part of your world, of your conversation. That has resonance.” -Tim cook-Apple CEO manager.
The contribution of architectural robotics to the construction of places, something of the old placed architecture, combined with new information and common technology that serves as a capacious, distributed “cognitive” home for people and things of all kinds in arch robotics. The information is popped up to connect to the neighboring network and other nodes from the interaction bet the things, people and the environment.
Architectural Robotics:
Artificial Intelligence: The singularity is when the machine surpasses the humane intelligence to an extent that it alters the core of humane existence. There can be singularity between the natural environment and the intelligent environment, rather bet the humane intelligence and the machine intelligence, or the aspiration to conceive an artificial environment that can match the capacity of the natural environment. This singularity supports and augments a range of humane activities for an increasingly digital society.
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-The architectural robotic forms the node which is connected to other smart tech and mobiles, that then are connected to other nodes or cubes, are connected together and affected by each other via technology, forming the “urbanacnupuncture”. -How the communicative = interoperability across larger scaled arch robotics networks and the Internet has the potential to provide more apt and more assistive computing resources to individuals and local communities. All that occur in the cyber physical environment which is including spatial scales, complexity scales both in time and space. The units can be heterogeneous (computers, agents, devices,
humans, networks). It may operate in different and spatial scales, that may have different objectives and goals in one space. So that the CPSS is sheltering the humankind as a hybrid of architecture and computing that provides all the interactions across people and things of all kinds, architectural robotics may be identified as an industrial system or a social system but rather an “experience system.”
Transfigurable environment The kind of environment created in the new typology of an office space is a transfigurable environment, which is the environment that changes after the augmentation of multiple uses for learning process. Like the cyber physical environment, that has physical existence of the space and the digital environment such as augmented reality and mixed reality.Psychology of Augmentation of Reality Grazino in his book “consciousness and the social brain”, shows the meaning of the transfigurable environment, stating that the experience that we have in life is not direct as we imagine, and there is something that our brain computes models that are caricatures of real things. It’s a strange vessel to find a way between our world around us and the understanding of it to find a way far that our minds would imagine like for example, seeing a white dress is a mix of
colors that our mind sees, but the spectrum appears to us as white and that we need to imagine whats beyond our minds through the transfigurable environment.
Example of cyber physical environment experiment For the cyber physical environment, an experiment done by TU DELFT students by deriving a TOOLKIT for teaching children. The tool reflects what the children are telling through reading a story from a digital ipad and projects it on walls of the experimental LIT room. LITKIT evokes the words from the physical text book that can create an architectural space, so deriving those physical texts in a cyber physical environment, using means of ICT to reading printed books by feeling, movement, manipulation and integration. It also demonstrates through the engagement of a palette of environmental effects (Lighting, sound, and movement) at room scale, children’s meaning-making can be cultivated within an engaging, mixed technology environment promoting read-aloud interactions. The LIT room acts as a portal between the every day environment and the extraordinary environment imagined in books, providing unique opportunities for children and their adult guides within an interactive read loud experience, so critical to cultivating literacy.
Humane Computer Interaction (HCI)
The environment was set up such that:
The physical interaction between architectural elements as ceilings, walls, partitions and floors and the humane being as an employee in the office space. This kind of environment is a Reconfigurable environment, that compresses patterns and makes one room many rooms.
-Multiple information displays are desirable and should be located in close proximity to one another.
The humane computer physical interaction between the users and physical elements. Adaptive environment specifically dependent on moving physical mass to arrive at its shape shifting functional states. The case study that shows that iteration is the animated work environment (AWE) held by a robotic work environment is a reconfigurable that dynamically shapes and supports the working life of multiple people, collaborating together in a single physical space, who use digital and analog tools in the creation of digital and physical artifacts. With respect to cyber physical configuration patterns conducive to working life in an increasingly digital workforce, The remarkable feature of the reconfigurable environment typology is that a single physical space makes room for multiple functional places supporting and extending human activity, “one space, many rooms.” AWE prototype is experimented on some users for recognizing iterations of different movements through HCI (humane computer interaction).
-Work environments should accommodate multiple people sitting side by side or across from one another. -Work environments should provide a degree of privacy by blocking unwanted visual access and auditory intrusion. The iterations of the AWE were done by the simulation of people sitting next to each other, back to back and single experience. -The environment consists of the actors, aluminum panels with motors and sensors that interacts with the users. Each segment houses LED lighting that can be switched on or off by users when needed. -The panel can be used as a writing tool that interacts with the user iteration. For example, if the user needs to focus on reading something, a panel tilts down and lights up, another panel is directed in-front of the user to be used as a writing panel for him. Another low resolutes panel displays background information digitally as weather conditions, stock market and other ambient information.
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If the user needs to concentrate, then another back panel tilts up and covers his back side while working.
Animated work environment
-If a group of users are interacting together, then the panels interacts and open to form a work space for them that support their collaboration. As well as, providing lighting and suitable work requirements for them. -Working surfaces get nestled again together to make two and three working places configurations with different shapes to form various compressed patterns. -All computer displays are manually adjustable and are mounted following established ergonomic specifications.
LITKIT experiment on children
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Evolution of workspaces: Brief History: The evolution of work spaces in the united states started from an action plan office in an open plan area and continued till the late 20th century. But then in Germany after the war, they introduced the open plan office (Burolandschaft) which they did not like it’s messiness . Western Germany then decided to shift to an action plan office, design by Robert Propst, who was working at the meanwhile in Herman Muller. It created a lot of comfort for employees, they were able to concentrate like private offices in the 19th century, had partitions to pin things on and created a manage-mental hierarchy of employees. But then, it had the problem of being like a cage of many isolated employees and collaborative areas were almost not existing. Therefore, modern office plans were created, which are mainly organized by hierarchy and positions. Such that, employees are in an open plan office space and managers in private rooms. Semi private areas, formal, informal, collaborative and brainstorming area are also available. The main function of a modern office plan is allowing more collaboration between different workers categories in a space and rendering more interaction iterations between employees in an office space plan.
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Action plan office
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Modern office space
Case Study I-RGA headquarter office- New York -The office is the new headquarter for RGA in New York city designed by Foster+Partners. -The office is an iteration of telecommuting through new work patterns configurations in a work space. -The whole office is a big laboratory space of experience. -Design is created to enhance employees collaboration in different formal and informal areas. They have the freedom to choose their working spot in the space and experience interactive collaboration through their movement. -The space is an experience of a physical environment surrounded by LCD screens all over the main hall area with a stage stair. This area acts as a threshold to the digital environment, where employees would be more exposed to the outer community, share wold wide news and integrate through an on-line digital platform to other colleagues in other office branches.
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-Private cells and war rooms for collaboration and meetings are created in the middle of the office space, for privacy and different collaborative patterns of interactions. -Big round tables are created in different random spots in the office, for enhancing employees collaboration while moving from one working spot to another experiencing different interactive iterations in the new space. -Sit stand desks are available for employees to design their comfortable work posture. -The created space is a laboratory of technological experience for employees to try different kinds of technologies as communicative networked beacon technology that provides the application user with information about different studios, collaborative teams and functionality of rooms.
Beacon technology
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Case Study II- ETSY new headquarters in New York This type is an artistic green office space that provides employees free spaces for collaboration, casual working spots, formal ,informal spaces, semi private areas, private and meeting areas. The office has brainstorming green walls, cafeteria and outdoor green working area. The concept is that each employee would be surrounded and have a view to a sustainable and an artistic element from any spot in the open office space. Employees are provided lockers and laptops, such that they take their tools and spread allover the open space collaborative areas. The office is experimenting the application of telecommuting in a different type of a co working sustainable office created only for it’s employees.
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Case Study III- Chiat/Day in LA new office building - Los Angelos The binocular office building is a new head quarter to an old office owned by an advertising agency owner called Chiat, who had an office called “Chiat/Day in LA� in Los Angelos. The new office building was built in the 90s and designed by Frank Gehry, and was the first experiment for telecommunications application on an office space. Employees had lockers and laptops, cell phones and personal items that were given in the beginning of the each day. This office is an iconic binoculars symbol of a new mobile office, where employees had big a office space with different functional zones for mobile networked working with available services.
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Case Study IV- DOTCOM office typology- Google office - California -The dot com office typology is created for combining leisure and work with all provided facilities in the huge designed space. -The main goal is seeking out designs that would encourage employees to spend the longest amount of working hours as much as possible in the office. -Interactive and collaborative spaces are not really simlulated through the employees interactions together in common work areas throughout their journey experience in the office, but only through their meetings in leisure areas and break out rooms.
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Google office - California: -�Air on� chair typology which is designed for nursing home patients is provided for employees, to maximize the working hours. -Various design elements with different environments are created for employees, as well as a kindergarten area for parents to bring their children. -Laundry rooms are provided for employees to sort of live in the office. -The requirement of the dotcom office for total office dedication and long working hours appear in creating sort of a big house with various activities, facilities and living lifestyles for employees to stay as long as possible. -Freedom of work spaces choice are only given inside the office territory, with all requirements and facilities provided.
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What is the architectural design proposing? The proposed design is a new typology of an office building, that is functionally and structurally reconfigured according to the main attractor interior mobile co working space. Shared online network platform is designed connecting telecommuters in different Telework offices for communications and spaces reservation.
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Zoning distribution: The working areas distributed are interconnected and accessible from one node point (core), such that employees can feel the telecommuting and co working around the space when they have a center of movement allowing the flow of accessibility.
Office Program: The designed office program for telecommuting, has a normal working office program with shared spaces. This means that the different office space zones with certain square meter areas are shared by all the office workers and the telecommuters entering the space during the telework days. Dividing the whole office space to four main zones, main office co working area, workshop for brainstorming and business briefings, recreation area with a small cafeteria and a service area for the whole floor. The area of the office is 15*30m = 450m2
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Reflections of augmented reality inside the office spaces that connects the physical and the digital is experienced and seen on outer building skin and with site connections.
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Business Model The main idea is that offices and coworking spaces owners would coordinate and own the same space (Telework space). Such that, when telecommuting is applied for two or three days per week, free spaces would be reserved for coworkers and other employees from different offices (Telecommuters). This would distribute the one office expenses on both the owners and the co-working space owner, including space rents, installations, labour, facility management, tools for engineers and catering. On the other hand, the office owner is the only one responsible for his employees (telecommuters) in terms of salary, bonuses, vacations, promotions and chun rate payments.
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On a global scale, Telework spaces (new offices typology) would communicate with each other, such that employees (telecommuters) through their software application, could be able to have many options for work reservation. This interconnection between offices and employees is coordinated through a social network, with a designed on-line platform provided for employees for choosing their spaces with information about the building services, accessibility and performance.
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Integration This experiment was done as an attempt of form generation that integrate the physical and the digital media (Augmented Reality) in a work environment. It begins by separating the physical normal walls and digital walls. The digital walls will be used mainly on the large surfaces where it is easy for user to spot, thus inclining some of the walls. As for physical walls will be used mainly in partitioning or when there is a neighboring wall. The work experiment was applied on a 15*30m units representing one telework office space. An experimental office typology is created for configuring new working patterns for engineers inside the space. Thus, reaching an applicable structural form of a space on the building scale.
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Duability of space The space should be duable and have the possibility to withstand different configurations. This creates a threshold to diferent uses and saving of spaces. Node of activities The zones in the interior movement are centralized around one core that is the center of branching activities
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Community connectivity The space is an open door for students, employees, managers, freelancers and developers to enter and integrate together. This creates a new community working hub kind of an office.
Hot desking Telecommuters have the ability to choose their own spaces according to their preferences and own space usage from their downloaded application. Through the social online network application, they can choose their preferrable office and plot inside according to their own criteria for example location, building design style, transportation wise, environmental conditions in space..... Physical vs. Digital The new office space is an integration between the physical and the digital, such that the employees are occupying the physical space, experiencing the Humane computer interaction(HCI) of the architectural and structural elements, sorrounded by digital media and augmented reality technology, reflected on inclined walls and partitions.
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The main idea is: Combining the humane computer interaction (HCI) which is a physical interaction of space elements, for providing employees accessibility and services, with the digital media surrounding them over the space. Employees can be in a telework space and connected through on-line platforms to other offices and other people in different spaces or countries. In addition to, the assistance of augmented reality, employees would wear their goggles and be connected to other platforms.
Experiment conclusion The combination between augmentation of digital media on walls, ceilings and floors would be a significance of modern technological society reflections, that helped forming the new office typology (Telework space). The goal is to combine modern technology with architecture, for a better building performance. Therefore, the proposed architectural design would be a telework space, that provides an architectural and building performance architectonic typology of a building for technology users.
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Recreation area = 760m2 Outdoor recreation area = 5,476 m2
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Steel frames forming cells can be shrinking or growing in size, such that the building process can be distributed over a long span period of time. Such that, the building can start with telecommuting for only 2 floors building, then extends after a couple of years to 4 floors, then after a long span when telecommunication is enhamced and more people need to use the building. The building can extend to 6 floors. After some years, when the idea of telework is increasing and people donot need a building, the structural frames system can be taken over and shrink in size according to the usage of employees.
Cells are distributed over stable vertical core including elevators and all services required for mechanical and electrical uses as the building needs more installation for the technological applications. Cells connected together for opening circulation. Each open plan office acts as a threshold for another, such that all cells are connected from inside. This increases people interaction and enhances collaboration.
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EXTERIOR SHOTS Offices are connected together through cells internal circulation, to enhance employees (teleworkers) collaboration and allow businesses meet from different places. Employees (Teleworkers) are connected virtually to the outer world and to their main offices. Augmented reality projections are appearing on walls, ceilings and on exterior inclination of surfaces. The scheme of Augmented Reality is appearing on interior, exterior and in urban mobility through an employeeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lifecycle. Applications on phones and ipads can easily illustrate the building circulation, zoning, usages and even the main entrance locations.
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INTERNAL WORK SPACE TECHPHYSICAL VERSUS VIRTUAL
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Throughout the building internal journey, telecommuters are connected to the outer real world through virtual digita medias projected on all inclined interior surfaces. Inclined screens and walls are connected with sensors to the augmented reality glass and thus allowing employees control the information projected by touching all the digital surfaces paired with electronic devices. Technolgical aspects of connectivity transforms the space into a big laboratory of experiencing different technological innovations that are taken from the outer world and combined together in one space. Therefore, assisiting employees to know more information about other collaborative work groups,and easily explore more spaces throghout their movement.
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-Beacon technology is installed in all group locations. Beacon works, such that the main device is paired with a phone or any electronic device, and shows all iformation about the space, for example, defining group activities, group names working in a certain location, projects this group are working on and even their main office names. It helps to make movement easier inside the space, allows businesses to meet through the withstanding of new people visiting the building . It also assists teleworkers to identify their sorrounding spaces and colleagues.
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3- Surface projections (Augmented reality)
Spaces for virtual reality are considered and designed for telecommuters to sit in it, close themselves with partitions if wanted, and experience the isolated virtual world.
All walls, ceilings and surfaces are inclined for digital media projections. Each device that an employee has, is paired with a space surface. Surfaces have also to be paired with the augmented reality glasses. Once pairing occurs between a surface and an electronic device, the surface opens up and starts projecting each employeesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; work. In case of meetings and skypecalls, a group of people can be connected together through pairing their devices with each other and with a surface, and can start seeing the same work projected. Each screen has a story behind. It can be also displayed automatically without being paired with laptops or phones or even glasses. Teleworkers can choose the display mode to be automatic, such that they donot need glasses or augmented reality for being connected to the world. What is needed, is to set up the framework, and the surfaces can start telling stories by itself about the outer world. Colors of the surfaces can also change automatically, for example it can project cold colors for relaxing employees moods. All surfaces are displayed virtually and connected to augmented reality glasses that employees wear. Projections can be turned off manually by stopping the pairing connection.
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4- Work environmental control
5- Mobile application
Telecommuters can adjust their work environment conditions seperately. Application provided for each employee has adjustment options for lighting, tenperature control and color of lights in his place. Each cell is provided with spaces for electrical and mechanical surfaces, due to the high technological usage inside the space.
The new typology of an office space ”Telework office” will be a shared workspace for employees and telecommuters from other communicative offices. Therefore, The new typology of an office space “Telework office” is connecting all teleworkers entering it via a communicated network connection through an online social platform the communicative network would connect employees from different places, businesses would meet and employees would choose their preferable work spaces according to their own personal preferences and get connected together and to their main offices through an online designed communicative shared platform. A user Interface is set up for employees (telecommuters), to have the ability to choose their workspace and visualize their desk and the work environment before entering the space.
Connected Luminare system: All ceilings are digital with connected LED lighting system empowered through a connected network of low voltage ethernet computer cables with thousands of intelligent luminare sensors. Luminares measures every second lighting, movement, infrared, and temperature. This digital system is connected to a mobile application which provides control options for employees. When people leave the space, lights are turned off and ventilation is set to a miniumum level. Once someone reaches the office, temperature is set to the optimum and the lighting is set up to the average 300 lux and each employee has the control option by mobile phone application.
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Uses of the mobile application: 1-Through the usage of augmeted reality, employees(telecommuters) have the option of using their glasses for augmenting all the additional information about the building. For example, seeing the number of free desks spots, free spaces in recreation areas, outdoor areas and conference building.
2-Application can guide telecommuters throughout their journey to the office, by augmenting signage on the streets, infrastructure and outdoor areas. -Mobile application can help telecommuters, find their colleagus by â&#x20AC;&#x153;Finding Peopleâ&#x20AC;? user guide interface that helps telecommuters search for others in the same place from different businesses. User guidance also detects people from the same office that are telecommuting in the builing and gives notification to the user. This helps telecommuters, find groups easily, create meetings easier and meet new people through an online social interface. Telecommuters can use the application when connected to Beacon to find their routes inside the building. For example, they can use the interface for finding ways to reach recreation , open areas in the building, multipurpose rooms, meeting rooms, conference area and other offices. The application also works on the employees health and safety. If a break needed, a teleworker opens his profile, the application detects his age, physical state and measures his heart beat. After an employee determines his preferrable food and beverages, the application suggests the best menu that suites him/her.
3-In case of sickness, the application measures the physical state of a teleworker from time to another, and accordingly gives suggestions as having a break or a walk or doing sports. And in case of high emergency, teleworker gets notified with the emergency level of his/her sitiuation and gets suggestions for seeing a doctor and stopping working. - In case of hazards and fires in the building, teleworkers are guided to the nearest escape routes and paths at the least possible time. -In case of accidents and hazards to a teleworker, his/her manager gets notified for an emergency help. -Mobile application also gives suggestions after a long time of work for taking a break, having a walk and determines diffferent people doing the same activity or having break at the same time and guides people to meet each other during the break times.
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INTERIOR SPACE MATERIALS
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SOFT WALL BLOCKS
GYPSUM CARTON PLATES
CONNECTED LIGHTING LUMINAIRE
RECYCLED RUBBER FLOORING
BEACON TECHNOLOGY INSTALLATION
METAL FABRIC ACCOUSTIC CEILING PANELS
Softwall blocks
Recycled rubber flooring
-Softwall + softblock is a modular system of flexible space partitions. Elements available in various heights, colours and materials are connectable by concealed magnets; making it possible to create endless lengths of walls, or stack and link blocks to shape entire environments. -The honeycomb geometry expands to create a freestanding structure that is hundreds of times larger than its compressed form. The systemâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s flexibility is pragmatic for compact portability, and spontaneous reshaping of living and working environments. Any softwall or softblock element can expand to a maximum of 4.5 meters, or to shorter lengths to suit particular occasions.
Is a especial material that absorbs sand and all fine materials from the people movement and an accoustic material for floor sounds. ubber that is recycled from tires, they go a long way in preventing the buildup of non-biodegradable waste in landfills. Secondly, the recycled material is very tough. It can withstand the shock of high foot traffic and heavy weights.
-Gypsum carton plates are SoundBreak XP Acoustically Enhanced Gypsum Board -Superior Sound Damping -Acoustical Enhanced for High Rated STC Wall Assemblies -Mold/Mildew/Moisture Resistant -Approved For Use on Walls and Ceilings
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C O N C L U S I O N
-If objects, networking, equipment and living lifestyles are changing with technology, then work life environment has also to be changed! -The fact that nowadays, telecommuters who are freelancers, office owners, coworkers and students, do not only search for a coworking desk but also sometimes pay for having it, reflects the strong power of an office space need and the great idea behind work environment. -Meanwhile, sizes of offices still need to grow more and not shrink, due to the strong need of a work environment where the development of smart technologies, applications, internet service power connections and online social network medias are still applied. Such that the open work spaces act as an open laboratory for experiencing and developping technologies with more users. -However, after my analysis and development process throughout my master thesis process, My thesis statement conclusion, is that although nowadays, the strong power of an office space is still increasing in size and in usage, there will come a time with a high level of technology where mobility services and artificial intelligent smart solutions for connectivity such as mobile applications, online platforms and social online networking would be strongly connecting people from many different locations, and the age of telecommunications would be much more developed than was ever expected when constructed.
-Therefore, I strongly believe that, offices sizes will shrink and people would choose working from different locations according to their choice prefernces, where they wouldnot need a desk in a typical office environment. -The patterns of work would be reconfigured in many different decentralized locations, where people are virtually connected on an online social platform with strong technological assistants. -But until there is a social or political revolution in the idiology of workspaces, office spaces are still i need to smart technological telework buildings with many different reconfigurations of work patterns, where the aid of technology and the threshold work environment towards the digital and virtual is strongly considered.
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