Collective Office Workplaces_Architectural Dissertation

Collective Office Workplaces

4. Case Studies And its Inferences 4.1 Noxel Office Building, Maryland USA (Hierarchical Division)

Fig No.23 Noxel Office Building View Source: Architectural Record, 1968

Introduction Noxel Office Building, was designed by Gordon Bunshaft. The office building was designed in 1968. The building was designed for theNoxell Corporation is located in Hunt Valley, MD, United States and is part of the Soap, Cleaning Compound, and Toilet Preparation Manufacturing Industry. As lead designer of the Lever House and many of America’s most historically prominent buildings, Pritzker Prize-winning architect Gordon Bunshaft (9 May 1909 – 6 August 1990) is credited with ushering in a new era of Modernist skyscraper design and corporate architecture. A stern figure and a loyal advocate of the International Style, Bunshaft spent the majority of his career as partner and lead designer for SOM, who have referred to him as “a titan of industry, a decisive army general, an architectural John Wayne.” Souravi Halder | 1170100715 | B.Arch 2017-22

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Fig 37: Redefined Workplaces

Table 10: Scope Of Adaptability Of Past Workspace Layouts

Fig 34: Design Analysis Parameters

Fig 35: Workers Value in Workspace

Fig 38 Questionnaire For Design Process

Fig 36: Global Upgradation

Fig 26: Googleplex, Office Spatial design Analysis

Fig 23: Noxel Office Building View

Fig 03: The Old Admiralty Office

Fig 01: Flow Chart Explaining the Methodology

Table 1: Evolution Of Workplace in Indian Context

ABSTRACT

Fig 25: Googleplex, California Office Aerial View

Fig 17: Francis Duffy’s Theory Of Workspaces

Fig 24: Noxel Office Building Plan