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Floorplate size. Floorplate size. Floorplate size. If you required all new office buildings to have the same small floorplate size of a residential building, t
by noughtme 3y ago
Floorplate size. Floorplate size. Floorplate size.
If you required all new office buildings to have the same small floorplate size of a residential building, then they would be convertible, but thay would significantly change the economics of commercial real estate.
- epicureanideal 3y agoMaybe build a new kind of housing that is INSIDE the large open place office, and doesn't need to have the same structural integrity, but focus on noise reduction and being secure from external entry? Like a bunch of tiny homes inside an open plan office.
- CydeWeys 3y agoPeople want windows and natural light. That's the fundamental problem here that this doesn't solve.
- xiphias2 3y agoThat's actually true for offices as well. That's also why highly paied people are running away from offices.
- candiodari 3y agoI think the problem with residential is more that people might block each others air supply ... and what to do when that happens.
- derefr 3y agoTall steel-and-concrete buildings are still structurally sound with all the facade torn off. (After all, they were structurally sound before the facade went on.) There'd be plenty of light and fresh air for these "indoor houses" — at least the ones around the outside — if this was done. If you want even more light and air, design office towers to have some extra "wasted" central space, beyond just that needed for an elevator shaft and plumbing — i.e. make them into squared-off toruses. Then, post-facade-stripping, it won't be dark in the middle, either. Or just build office towers that are long and narrow, rather than square, such that if you convert them into residential, you get functional "commie block" architecture where every unit gets not only a window, but a balcony.
- singleshot_ 3y agoCounterexample, WTC 1&2, whose concrete columns around the outside supported it.
- singleshot_ 3y agoA Counterexample: WTC 1&2, whose concrete columns around the outside supported it.
- howinteresting 3y agoI wish courtyard-like shapes were more common in western architecture.
- epicureanideal 3y agoI think to live for a reasonable price in SF, a lot of people would give up the natural light. I likely would. I'd just use it as a place to sleep and spend my time somewhere else.
- andrewjl 3y agoIANAL but there are city housing code minimums around natural light in residential units. If the goal then is to change the housing code to let people live in SF for a more reasonable price then might as well skip to removing overly restrictive zoning and height restrictions instead.
- refurb 3y agoSo my office is a sunless dungeon that I don't get to see outside? Sounds awful.
- marcosdumay 3y agoSo, in other words, the requirement that offices are unwieldy uncomfortable spaces conflicts with the requirements that people feel well inside their homes. I keep wondering where do the office requirements come from, but I know I won't like the answer.
- anigbrowl 3y agoThe residential units go round the outside* and the inner core of the building is used for creative space, retail, services and so on.Just needs a little imagination. * round the outside, round the outside