Watch the Video: http://vimeo.com/51982951Given workplace mobility trends, broadening employee and corporate interest in sustainability, and growing economic pressure on businesses, the prototype for the office building of the future in North America is no longer a new building. Instead the opportunity lies in existing structures that have been adapted beyond recognition, beyond a use dedicated solely to traditional office work. These buildings will be forever known as the Hackable Buildings.Capable of fully delivering on the universal planning flexibility inherent in their standardized floorplates and interior design logic, the office buildings of North America will evolve culturally and physically through smaller, pioneering interventions, transforming these large monolithic office blocks and the 9-5, corporate hive mentality they were planned around into hybridized buildings that promote creativity and a willingness to respond to changing work modes of the 21st century worker and the lifestyles of the 21st century urban dweller. By projecting this willingness to design and provide a diverse mix of uses and modifications into former office buildings, these neutral structures will develop a level of specificity that supersedes image through their ability to serve future generations of workers accustomed to constant motion, authenticity and an urban lifestyle ever more in flux.
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