FLOWING WONDER: STEELCASE NEXT PROJECT

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Course: Studio

Duration: Months

Advisor: Melina Misri

This NEXT Steelcase Design Competition project focuses on the NEXT Robotics Offce located in Boston, Massachusetts. As a child, we’re flled with an innate sense of wonder and curiosity which lead us on an endless path of discovery. A similar sense of this wonder and curiosity is replicate in Boston with the numerous universities located throughout the city. Boston is a hub for students from all over the world who harbor this sense of wonder, ready to begin a fresh, new chapter of their lives. The NEXT Robotics Offce space aims to evoke that sense of wonder and curiosity that’s felt as a child, and as a new resident of the city of Boston. Through the concept of ‘fowing wonder’, this offce will contain moments of wonder, such as in the Playground and Common Room, that spark discovery and curiosity in its employees and all those who visit. f

Adjacency Matrix

Wonder Diagram - this diagram highlights where the aspect of wonder is included within the offce space. The walls of these spaces are curved in the plan to indicate wonder and each space is designed differently to be a different moment of wonder.