cowork
colive
index introduction backdrop/research process project
diploma fall 2017 the oslo school of architecture and design rasmus steen pettersen supervisors: halvor weider ellefsen neven fuchs-mikac
program coworking and coliving 11.300 m2 capacity: 700-1000 members/desks site: brenneriveien 11, oslo plot size: 3300m2
As modes of production are changing, so must the spaces we work. Cowork Colive is an investigation in how to facilitate the fluid existence in an ever more globalized and digitalized world, where work and everyday life no longer can be distinguished the way current strategies instigate. The advent of co-working spaces is one out of necessity as well as of fulfilling new potentials. Creative work, innovation and production of immaterial goods, is in many ways generated through social relations and its subsuming creative energies – value is created where people meet and the unexpected can occur (friction, serendipity). At the same time, spaces that provoke such conditions can be exhausting. With flexible rental-solutions, the constant option to change between work spots of different conditions will solve this. The project is therefore spatially gradated, from big, open, public spaces at ground level – linked to the city – to small enclosed private spaces at the top (frictionless). Each of the different floor levels coincides with the different types of memberships and is organised within a system that optimizes light conditions, infrastructure and accessibility to basic amenities. What this enables is a range of flexible organisational solutions, with the goal of maximizing the potential for serendipity, while at the same time always providing the users the possibility to withdraw whenever focus and serenity is needed. If working and living is indistinguishable, these different spatial conditions still covers the range of needs for a global creative worker. As this is an architecture developed from the inside, the strategy has been to initially study generic systems and then test on and adapt to site. Thus the specific contextual conditions have informed and produced variations in an otherwise rigid structure.
frictionless
serenity now!
live/work
serendipity now!
friction
executive thesis: investigate how architecture itself can allow and instigate a transformation of daily reality
Constant Nieuwenhuys,
“New Babylon”
Cedric Price, “Fun Palace”
global facebook connections 2015 source internet.org
the global nexus currently, an estimated 35% of the workforce in advanced economies is regarded ‘freelancers’ or ‘creative workers’ that in some way or another takes part in gig economy and the likes. this demographic group is growing, as digitalization and globalization shifts us away from traditional forms of production. for some it poses a precarious existence, but for most also an existence of total freedom and flexibility as set working hours nor place any longer structure our daily lifes.
seattle san francisco las vegas los angeles honolulu
ottawa chicago austin new orleans bogota
new york washington dc miami sao paulo buenos aires
dublin london paris madrid lesbon
oslo stockholm copenhagen amsterdam berlin
helsinki bucharest wien rome johannesburg
ankara new dehli kuala lumpur jakarta sydney
seoul tokyo auckland
startuplab
house of nerds
oslo international hub site 657
bitraf mesh sentralen
co-working spaces oslo
tøyen startup village tuben
socentral
4. floor fixed desk
3. floor enclosed office space
2. floor worklounge
1. floor worklounge flexible desk meeting rooms
MESH OSLO case study
membership types
work - pleasure
private - shared - public
Coffee Houses
Taylorist Open Plan
Euro Stakeholder Office
Can be seen as a predecessor to the commercial office as a vibrant place for knowledge- and business-transactions
Johnson Wax Building Frank Lloyd Wright Racine 1937
SAS Offices Niels Torp Stockholm 1988
Structuralist office Central Beheer Herman Hertzberger Apeldoorn 1970
Lloyd’s Coffee House London 1688
Virtual office With the flexibility to work from anywhere, the office becomes a hub facilitating various activities Interpolis HQ Bonnema Architects Tilburg 1995
a brief history of the office
Early offices Administrative adjuncts to the centralised power of the state Palazzo Uffizi Giorgio Vasari Florence 1581
Traditional offices Advancments in structural engineering and telecommunication led to the first commercial office buildings inthe late 1800´s Mainwright Bldg. Louis Sullivan St. Louis 1890
Casual Office Bürolandschaft
Cubicles
Osram offices Quickborner Munich 1963
“Action Office II” invented by Robert Probst in 1967 Chase Manhattan Bank Skidmore Owens & Merrill New York 1961
“Domestication” of the office pioneered by Silicon Valley software firms ChiatDay Offices Clive Wilkinson Architects Los Angeles 1997
Source: Anton, Kotlyarov, History of the Office, Milan 2015
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ground floor public programs 1) cafĂŠ/eventspace 2) workspace 3) gallery/exhibition area 4) auditorium 5) service/storage/technical
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third floor fixed desk
fourth floor enclosed office space
fifth floor private spaces