Projects undertaken at the Hull School of Architecture, UK 1997/2002

2000/01: Urban Design, Business Innovation Park, Hull, England.

This project was undertaken as an advanced Specialist Diploma in Urban Design, as part of my Bachelor of Architecture Masters Degree. This postgraduate diploma in Urban Design was achieved as a separate qualification to the Masters programme.

Today, if you visit the technology companies of Silicon Valley, or the media companies of Manhattan, you’ll find that secluded private offices have been replaced by busy public spaces, open-plan areas without walls, executives next to the newest arrivals. The hush of the traditional office has been supplanted by something much closer to the noisy, bustling ballet of Hudson Street (Malcolm Gladwell).

The catch is that getting people in an office to bump into people from another department is not that easy. As Thomas Allen, a researcher at MIT, concluded after a decade-long study, the likelihood of any two people communicating drops off dramatically as the distance between their desks increases: we are four times as likely to communicate with someone six feet away as with someone sixty feet away. And people seated more than seventy-five feet apart hardly talk at all (Malcolm Gladwell).

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