Hyper-Geographic Office: How the clouds activate public space

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dc.contributor.advisorLally, Seanen_US
dc.creatorShepherdson, Brian Danielen_US
dc.date.accessioned2011-07-25T01:39:21Zen_US
dc.date.available2011-07-25T01:39:21Zen_US
dc.date.issued2009en_US
dc.description.abstractThe 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.en_US
dc.digitization.specificationsThesis was rescanned at 24-bit color in 2020. PDF has been OCR’d and made accessible.en_US
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dc.identifier.callnoTHESIS ARCH. 2009 SHEPHERDSONen_US
dc.identifier.citationShepherdson, Brian Daniel. "Hyper-Geographic Office: How the clouds activate public space." (2009) Master’s Thesis, Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/61909">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/61909</a>.en_US
dc.identifier.digitalRICE2616en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/61909en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
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dc.subjectGeographyen_US
dc.subjectBusiness administrationen_US
dc.subjectManagementen_US
dc.subjectArchitectureen_US
dc.titleHyper-Geographic Office: How the clouds activate public spaceen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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thesis.degree.departmentArchitectureen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineArchitectureen_US
thesis.degree.grantorRice Universityen_US
thesis.degree.levelMastersen_US
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Architectureen_US
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