Today's lifestyle and architecture
One of the lifestyle trends lifestyle in architecture world today is more towards sustainable and energy saving . However , in today's world , people tend to like to work in a very comfortable and interesting working space or office building . Therefore , a sustainable and diversified working space slowly become a new trend in today's world .
With the though : '' What sort of ' lifestyle' is the world obsessed with today ? Show an example of a project that best throwcases your point. '' I am going to show you some example about it .
A very interesting example to throwcases my point of view :
Google office in California
Google Headquarters : ilicon Valley, California
Date : 2005
Category ; Offices
About This Project
Type : Offices Area : 180,000 SF
Google selected Clive Wilkinson Architects in an invited competition to design their 500,000 SF Silicon Valley campus. Together with workplace strategists DEGW, and environmental visionary William McDonough, a master plan was developed to create a diversified campus environment. The design integrated highly focused software engineering workspace with learning, meeting, recreational and food facilities, working with the existing conditions of the inner courtyards and building shell.
A sustainable energy-conserving environment was a high priority, and most building materials used were either cradle-to-cradle products, or contained high recycled content. Doors culled from previous build outs were used on the two story tower elements as windows, and open workstations were recycled product. To solve the need for a large number of perimeter workrooms, CWA developed a glass enclosed 3-person workroom with absorbent tent ceilings to soften sound transmission. This ‘Glass Tent’ office system not only satisfied privacy needs for concentrated work and retained access to light and views, it also provided a solution for rapid construction, accommodating Google’s immense expansion curve. The project won several design awards, including a national AIA Honor Award.
With various of design , the office 's environment make people have a more comfortable feeling when working . Besides google , there are also some office or headquaters starting to follow the sort of ' google office trend '' . Due to its comfortable and interactive spaces , this make most of the people wants to work in the environment like this .
