{"id":13980,"date":"2016-11-10T17:19:38","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T06:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.architecture.com.au\/news-media\/?p=13980"},"modified":"2016-11-16T15:20:40","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T04:20:40","slug":"edg-november-2016-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.architecture.com.au\/news-media\/edg-november-2016-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"EDG November 2016 feature"},"content":{"rendered":"

Design Speaks: Work Place \/ Work Life<\/strong><\/p>\n

Held in Melbourne at the end of August, the all-day symposia Work Place \/ Work Life, part of Architecture Media\u2019s Design Speaks program, brought together local and international speakers, case studies, analysis and trends on the design and experience of workplaces.\u00a0Flexibility, in the context of the rise of the shared economy, was a significant trend that emerged throughout the presentations.\u00a0Can buildings deliver in a\u00a0world demanding flexibility?<\/p>\n

Space matters but so does experience, engagement, community and choice for the high performance workplace of tomorrow.<\/p>\n

Kursty Groves, Author \u2018Spaces for Innovation: The Design and Science of Inspiring Environments\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

Posing \u2018what creates a space for innovation?\u2019, Groves presented a blueprint combination of community, creativity and space, underpinned by collaboration – space being only one part of the equation. Noting the tendency to design the \u2018what\u2019 before the \u2018why\u2019, Groves outlined a sensory dashboard of designing for experience<\/em> encompassing qualities of comfort, sight, sound, spaciousness, movement (ideas and ambient), aliveness, density, orientation, posture and ambience. She warned against the extremes of both highly curated (designer led) and highly created (user led) workplaces, recommending a happy medium between the two.<\/p>\n

Peter Andrew, Director of workplace strategies, Asia Pacific at CBRE (Singapore)<\/strong> and
\nSu Lim, Head of global client engagement, Hassell and founder, Workcollectiv (Singapore\/Australia)<\/strong> both picked up on the momentum of the shared economy and its impact on the workplace.<\/p>\n

Su Lim posited \u2018Work has left the building\u2019 presenting data on the exponential rise in 2015 of co-working space growth worldwide. \u2018Australia has the highest number of co-working spaces (per capita) in the world\u2019, paralleling similar trends in the sharing economy\u2019s worldwide market size presented by Peter Andrew. Confirming the trend, the AMP Quay quarter, Sydney, was noted as providing a significant allocation to co-working in its new office building.<\/p>\n

Lim summed up community, choice, experience and purpose as the drivers for the upsurge in co-working, presenting trends such as Hoffice (home\/office \u2013 think arbnb for sharing your home as office) and the potential frontier of underutilised spaces such as restaurants. Andrew pointed to WeWork<\/a>, AnyWorkspace<\/a> and LiquidSpace<\/a> as just some of the platforms currently connecting demand and supply.<\/p>\n

On high performance workplaces, Andrew noted that a diversity of places was key, with ‘work in a space that supports what you are doing at that time’. Picking up on the factor of designing for wellbeing as part of the user experience, Andrew noted that 35% of WELL projects currently in progress are in China.<\/p>\n

Cai Kjaer, Optimice Co-founder and CEO and Co-founder of SWOOP Analytics (Australia)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kjaer explored the role of buildings in enabling connectivity by first posing \u2018aren\u2019t they permanent?\u2019 – \u2018some companies don\u2019t work with buildings at all\u2019.<\/p>\n

Kjaer presented The Allen curve (aka the 50 metre rule) mapping the probability of communication against the physical distance of workers with the level of communication shown to rapidly level out beyond a short physical distance. Significantly, physical distance\/space \u2018still mattered\u2019 when the study was repeated for email communications. A 2015 study by Kjaer and Hassell revealed that beyond six metres, the frequency of both face to face relationships and email communications dropped off significantly. The results reinforced the earlier Allen Curve study suggesting \u2018space matters\u2019.<\/p>\n

Geraldine Maher, Principal, Jackson Architecture on the Supreme Court of Western Australia fitout\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Supreme Court of Western Australia fitout by Peter Hunt Daryl Jackson Architects.
Image: Acorn Photography<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The case study of the Supreme Court of Western Australia fitout by Peter Hunt Daryl Jackson Architects presented a different type of workplace and one of civic connection and experience. Faced with housing the courts in a new office tower in Perth\u2019s CPD, Maher set the context for bringing the symbolism and workings of the court into a modern building. Maher noted that the structural hierarchy of the courtroom itself has not changed for centuries \u2013 its layout determined by communication – sightlines are key. Jackson Architecture set about to imbue the courtroom and mediating spaces with a calming palette of natural materials, including the extensive use of pale timber. Detail was considered down to the level of tactile door handles \u2013 humanising the experience.<\/p>\n

In a nod to more contemporary court procedures, more meeting style rooms were accommodated as part of the brief to function as mediating rooms. Seating in these rooms was carefully considered – arranged to be separated but facing. In one of the larger meeting rooms, the decision to curve the meeting table to follow the ceiling was an aesthetic one, but feedback anecdotally is that it has been very harmonising \u2013 a key quality of mediation.<\/p>\n

Words: Belinda Strickland, Environment Design Guide (EDG) editor<\/p>\n

Related reading: \u20182016 Work Place \/ Work Life<\/a>\u2019 ArchitectureAU Sept 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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