OFFICE SPACE FOR OUR NETWORKED SOCIETY
Buildings evolve over generations to support our collective social structures. As the pace of social change has quickened, architecture has not been able to keep up. Weighed down by long approval processes and high transaction costs, many of our buildings under construction today are already out of step and provide little resiliency to the next wave of social change that is to come.
We have an opportunity to create new architectural typologies that reflect our connected social habits and ever-increasing need for resource frugality. This will be the architecture for our networked society; and it will be defined by the flow of ideas and materials, not by square footage.
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Bonding Hub
focused on team-level complex project work (short term: team offsite or long term: R&D lab or incubator) This space is designed to hold complex information and foster genuine trust amongst its users. Due to the more intimate nature of this setting, Bonding Hubs typically have less than 50 people.
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Bridging Hub
focused on integrating new people or new ideas into the network. This space values heterogeneity of ideas of people - all should feel welcome. To bring in as many new ideas as possible, Bridging Hubs are often geared toward groups 50- 500 users.
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Location Hub
Built where your existing networks of people and resources already are - or in locations with existing, rich and dense social fabric of people. Location Hubs cluster near universities or existing specialized physical infrastructure.
