Sunday, October 21, 2007

Design Development of Offices + Meeting Place

The following is an explanation of my consideration of POWER behind the design of Zhang Ying and Ratan Tata's offices, as well as their meeting point.

Office One: Zhang Ying
* Crucial decisions - A large crevice in the centre of the office whenever the elevator moves away.
* The 'unknown' within business, personal courage and inner power - Quite dark, moody lighting.
* Open ended possibilities - open end of office.

Meeting Point
* Endless possibilities for future power and development as well as personal inner- restrictions - Various openings and enclosed sections of the meeting point.
* One's natural inner power and personal 'nature' in terms of using and developing their power - Use of rock and brown/green tones.
* A different perspective in order to achieve unprecedented power - Angled dining table.

Office Two: Ratan Tata
* The 'ins and outs' of opinions, comments and other peoples beliefs - Open plan with large windows with a central path for Tata's own direction and decisions.
* No general consensus of ideas, only one ultimate way with 'light at the end of the tunnel' - side rooms.

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