TA: Rhea ChirayathDeviant Orders of the New Workspace
As cities become denser, resources deplete, economies recalibrate and unprecedented events disrupt the normal, traditional structures of working and collaborating are undergoing alteration. The global pandemic has made us realize and re-question the modes of working and collaborating. In the immediate present, the workspace dynamics are altering globally to become decentralized and grow inward, in turn, reconfiguring the interiors for the diverse, the shared and for active exchange.
In this studio, we will look at the deviants to the normal that will cause certain connections as possible solutions to the new ways of working or “co-working”. Key concepts of ‘community’, ‘well-ness’ and ‘collaboration’ would become the launching points to understand and define the new workspace interiority. Creating interiors that have a design language derived out of qualitative and metaphorical allusion to aspects of “work space” would be used as a primary design tool. The final outcome would have to demonstrate design strategies and qualitative aspects to embody the narrative of new workspace interiority.
Studio Unit
Studio journey and its structure
STAGE 1_Guest and Host Studies: Tribe/User and Program studies as well as Site observations and inferences
STAGE 2 & 3_Collate & Sense-See-Tise: Analyzing through diagramming_relationship of macro to micro and vice versa. Learning to Visualize through interpreting the Narrative
STAGE 4_Develop:Photo-Montage as a Design Tool for visualization. Keywords derived from Montage developed into Ideagrams to be developed further into abstract tectonic expressions through study models
STAGE 4_Develop: The Guest in the Host.....Developing and detailing the final design with materiality.
