Creative Futures: Networks + Clusters

Flashback to last semesters trip to one of the creative Sydney talks where people have been tracking the movements of Sydneys design community (literally) though GPS time lapse mapping. The interesting thing from the exercise they did was to show how the office was not just one place you visit everyday; in fact these team workers stop at multiple locations, crossing different suburbs and taking multiple long distance trips throughout the whole day.

Anywho, heres the link to the actual GPS overlay http://gpscreate.com/catch_and_release/

As a side note ive just discovered that the idea of a distributed office have been implemented in the past, and packaged into something Go-Get style called a "Telework Center"

To really appreciate architecture, you may even need to commit a murder

Montage, with images from own collection and quoted from Bernard Tschumi, "Architecture and Disjunction"

....And to continue again in the words of Tschumi; "Architecture is defined by the actions it witnesses as much as by the enclosure of its walls." It doesnt matter how a space is designed and where it is placed; nothing exists between architecture, order and program. 

Diagrams: Bernard Tschumi: Parc de la Villette. A programmatic brief is decomposed and reassembled prior to being scattered through an arbitary grid on the site. Images courtesy of Max-Roslin Melser.

As Tschumi stresses that there is no longer any relationship between architecture to program and meaning, can we say that there in the 21st century there is nothing you can draw between the task, the activity, the event and the architecture it is encompassed by, especially now that 'function' and 'cognition' is taken over by portable and wearable devices? Peel the thoughts of architecture away from neogeography, and you will find the most popular places happening in any odd locations; someones warehouse, a piece of road, etc. 

Assume from the above that any location is good to place a space, as long as things will happen in them, forgoing ideas such as siting, site analysis, main views and vistas etc. Consider also that a 'brand new building' for a mobile set of knowledge workers is now defunct. In conclusion, there will not be a brand new CBD precinct physically built into the intended site.

Now consider dispersing space; if the idea of mobile working is that it could occur remotely, we have a premise that the new architecture for the wireless office is parts of here and there. And there are abundant existing office spaces opened for lease and sale. No new spaces are required. Herein lies the invisible envelope. The new building envelope. The distributed office building! 

Net NLA - The Net Leasable Area (NLA) of the existing proposal (107,375 m2), minus the NLA of all the buildings required to be demolished for this masterplan (32,744 m2). Masterplan data sourced from Parramatta City Council. 

Filtered via realcommercial.com and commercialrealestate.com with removal of duplicates, via Yahoo Pipes and ArcGIS.