| The new workplace is not bound by geography, it is geography.;In any place, there are overlapping geographic fields of varying intensity---design for the new office should consist of the agitation and deformation of these fields.;This thesis investigates the architectural implications of patterns of working that are emerging due to the dematerialized but expanding presence of computing technology, or "The Techno-Cloud"---which has rendered the traditional architectural, urban, and social boundaries of the office obsolete.;This thesis proposes a methodology for the re-design of the office tower---a strategy for upsetting its enclosed, controlled geography to create a HyperGeography of active, overlapping fields of climate and use. In the HyperGeographic Office, nomadic workers are part of this ecology, tuning their environment through movement.;If the office is geography, then its Architecture is the control and augmentation of climatic performance. |
