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The Morphable Office concept by Gensler and Arup
would give hybrid workers more reason to return to
the office, with innovations to promote physical and
psychological wellness.
THE FUTURE OF CITIES
AFTER THE PANDEMIC
PATRICK J. KIGER
In the midst of a lingering pandemic that
has led some to question whether cities are still
desirable places to live and work, designers at architecture
firm Gensler and engineering, design, and
consulting company Arup have dared to ponder a
provocative question: In a time when many knowledge
workers have grown accustomed to working
remotely, could radical changes in the design of
office buildings motivate them to return to the corporate
workplace?
The answer they came up with is the Morphable
Office, a project that Gensler principal Darrel Fullbright
describes as " a hypothetical research project
that we used to codify all of the internal thinking
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around the future of the office, post-pandemic. " The
speculative structure is designed for tenants with
a hybrid work style but equipped with innovations
intended to promote physical and psychological wellness
in a way that employees might not find at home.
The six-story structure's movable facade panels,
for example, would allow the amount of open
access to outside space to be increased from 30 to
50 percent, and use of radiant heating and ceiling
fans would keep the space comfortable for much
of the year. Terraces facilitate outdoor working. The
concept was based in part on research that suggests
that being outside and moving more stimulates
worker productivity and creativity.
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