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.  

  

Project Proposal: Mobility and the Wireless Office Culture.

"In the age of information, it is information itself that becomes environmental."

- Marshall McLuhan

"We are becoming less like Saint Jerome, immobilized in his study among his accumulated possessions, less like Dilbert stuck at his computer in his cubicle, and more like cyborg foragers navigating through electronically mediated resource fields. We are relying less upon things (or people) being at fixed locations, or available on regular schedules, and more upon electronic tracking and navigation to locate what we want and take us to it. Our mental maps of buildings and cities are becoming less static records of fixed features and more dynamic representations of current conditions."

- William Mitchell, Me++: The cyborg self and the networked city.

The issue between contemporary developments in information technology and its possible implications in architecture/urban design would form the investigation inquiry in this project proposal for the final year.

Specific attention would be given to the cultural implications of wireless networked technology (WiFi, 3G, Bluetooth) and portable devices (netbooks, iPhones, Blackberry). An investigation into the concept of network (spatial or organisational?), would be formed via the use of Geospatial Information Systems and less conventional methods such as web-crawling and spidering. There is a possibility of re-imagining architecture in a digitally assisted augmented state, separate from cartesian rules of functional proximity and hierarchy.