Towards Hyper-Openness -Transforming Vacant Office Building By Applying Hyper-Open Building System

Towards Hyper-Openness -Transforming Vacant Office Building By Applying Hyper-Open Building System

Wang, C.

Homans, T. (mentor)
Klein, T. (mentor)
Snijders, A. (mentor)

Architecture

Architecture

Architectural Engineering

2013-06-28

Conventional buildings, due to their inflexibility and permanence, can hardly stay in a high quality and being adaptive to changing demand during their life span. Historically, some architectural innovations such as Open Building System practiced the notion of building flexibility. However, the customizing freedom of Open Building System is only limited in the form of façade and interior. Other decision levels such as structure, programme and capacity have not been discussed. Starting with observation of undergoing urban transition in Amsterdam Sloterdijk -one of the typical pure business districts in Netherlands, through tackling one of the most critical issues -the mismatch between supply and demand in building market-which considered as the primary cause for the office vacancy and urban mono-function, via the reflection on architectural position in this situation, through the formulation of objective and research question, via the reference to urban planning evolution, and eventually reaching the destination of a definition for Hyper-open Building System and its reflection on architectonic, this research document is trying to develop a building system, which can achieve a set of goals including the individual autonomy in decision-making, interchangeability in typology, evolvability in architectural quality and efficiency in design construction process. As a technical guideline for subsequent design, the research document will be concluded by a catalog of architectonic criteria and an optimized building prototype. And by using the criteria, a set of existing vacant office buildings around Amsterdam area will be evaluated in order to get the general idea about the current building conditions and transformation potentials. On the other hand, the design project chose a specific vacant office building to transform by applying the Hyper-Open Building System. More specifically, after the redesign of support construction, individual users are invited to the design process. Through the interface, users can customize the size of their unit based on predesigned modularity according to their personal requirement. Besides, for dwelling users, they also have the possibility to change the interior layout. Additionally, users can also define their front space and customize the backside façade. Because of the decentralized climate concept, the climate solution for each unit can be individualized via choosing the different climate units.

office building transformation
open building system
hyper-openness
mass-customization
vertical autonomy
flexibility
user-interface

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:49d370c2-766e-4c51-956d-4689a79474a6

2013-07-16

Student theses

master thesis

(c) 2013 Wang, C.