Office/Startup Building
Project Brief
Design an environmental concept for a 5000m2 office/startup building. You project site may be anywhere on earth. If you decide to replace an existing building, you should be prepared to justify your choice. To develop the project, go through the following Design Exercises: Climate, Benchmark & PV, Daylight Precedences + Massing Study, Daylight Availability Study, Visual Comfort, Electric Lighting, Thermal Model Setup, EUI Study and HVAC Design. If you are taking 4.401/4.464, your final presentation should draw from these design exercises. You are welcome/encouraged to add additional work to create a coherent project narrative. This skeleton presentation provides additional tips. Example projects from previous class runs are shown below.
Example Projects
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Tucson, AZ
Office/event space in Tucson, AZ, J Hwang and V Jackow, 2022
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Shark Fins
Office building in Seattle, WA, M Fernandez Feraud, E Willmer-Shiles and S Herb, 2022
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COast Working
Co-working space in Brooklyn, NY, H Meihan Davis, S Ratanarat and Z Le Hong, 2022
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Nakagin 2.0
Parametrizing the metabolist dream, startup space in Tokyo, Japan, S Wolk and N Klimenko, 2021
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Canal Coworking
Co working space in Scottsdale, AZ, S Aulgur, S Ajienka and J Berglund-Brown, 2021
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New York
Office building in New York City, NY, by L Bastian, A Steelman and K C Lo, 2021
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New Cairo
Office building in Cairo, Egypt, by S Mokhtar and N Tarkhan, 2020
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Amarillo
Office building in Amarilla, TX by C Allen and E Reinhard, 2020
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Infill Alphabet
Office infill in St. Louis, MO, by C Amstutz and J Schnitzler, 2020
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Denver
Office building in Denver, CO, by L McCormick and S Nagpal, 2016