NEW Office
Transforming Office Typology in Northeast Midtown, New York City
Daphne Homan (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
H.A. van Bennekom – Mentor (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
J.P.G. Holst – Mentor (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
G.A. van Bortel – Mentor (TU Delft - Housing Management)
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Abstract
Over the past hundred years, advancements in technology have determined the way we work and interact. Research shows that a shift will occur within the coming decades. The contrast between working and everyday life will become blurry, and the workplace shifts from a formal setting towards an informal one. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic (2020), one can state that this shift is already happening. People all over the world are abruptly forced to work from home. NEW Office is a two-hundred-eighty meter tall tower that is located on the block between 47th and 48th Street and Lexington Avenue and Third Avenue. The building offers more than a hundred-and-twenty-thousand square meter of adaptable space that consists of living units, office space, and amenities based on daily-activities. With adaptability as the key concept to the design, changes to the program can happen independently to its structure, period, and context. With this, the hybrid mixed-use project has the opportunity to adjust to the changing demands in society, where the program gradually shifts from a collective work environment to an individual and community-based residential tower supporting a new type of work.