Constructing agency 2018-2020

cor(al)ations

Studio Patrik Schumacher

Tutor Pierandrea Angius

Team Michel Ghulmiyyah (Lebanon), Maria Laura Barriola (Spain), I-Tzu Wang (Taiwan), Yu Sun (Taiwan)

In the fast-paced contemporary society that we live work and create within, everything is in flux and there is a need for an adjustment and adaptation to our changing needs. Architecture and the built environment is part of this transition and is responsible for providing a new level of social functionality as well as a sense of order to the agency of its users.

The research of COR(AL)ATIONS relies on a scenario-based design process that incorporates the dynamic behavioural and social patterns of human agents within a space. To investigate this we explore new workspace typologies that aim to develop the ideal tech start-up incubator in the city of London. This included the testing of new spatial typologies that could emerge as a result of the interaction of human agents in a workspace alongside the surrounding kinetic systems designed specifically to enhance performance. As a challenge to the conventional workplace that is spatial and communicatively static, the project integrates the spatial complexity of the studied typologies thus creating a hybrid system in order to define new levels of communication and flexibility. This is achieved at varying scales, from furniture to the urban, allowing for a correlation between each and integrated with the human agents.

COR(AL)ATIONS claims that flexible and dynamic spatial patterns are the key for future, efficient workspace design, which is achievable through the application of the concepts of ‘phenomenology’ to both the design process as well as the space itself. This can result in new spatial, social, circulation and communication patterns that can contribute to the success and health of a variety of different sizes and types of start-ups within an incubator.