Office Park

Abstract

The world in which we live provides a limiting range of experiences for our individual sensory needs as well as our social interactions as a community. Architecture has created a disconnection between humans and nature by segregating the two from each other in physical and visual ways. Architecture need to strive to create spaces that harness the qualitative attributes that nature provides us and re-establish a give and take relationship between nature and humans. The typical office environment of today is a space that harnesses only the quantitative qualities that a 'space may have, in that it is a grid-like repetitive experience that lacks any type of connection with nature or any dynamic qualities. One of the results of this is a complete lack of connection to the natural environment. On the other hand a park is something that is produced by nature and is rich with dynamic qualitative experiences. How can architecture create a hybrid condition that serves a function while also serving our senses? Can the implementation of experiences that occur in a park into an office space create a new dynamic architecture that serves us as humans rather than simply shelter us from the elements?