Type of Document Master's Thesis Author Zhu, Ping Author's Email Address pzhu@vt.edu URN etd-2720162749721461 Title SPACE DESIGN FOR THE ACITC EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY OFFICE AREA USING A WORKPLACE NEIGHBORHOOD CONCEPT Degree Master of Science Department Housing, Interior Design, and Resource Management Advisory Committee
Advisor Name Title Joan McLain-Kark Committee Chair Eric Wiedegreen none Lennie Scott-Webber none Keywords
- space
- design
- workplace
- neighborhood
Date of Defense 1997-04-25 Availability restricted Abstract Today, the workplace is undergoing dramatic
changes, featuring increased team activities
and informal interactions. The work place
neighborhood is a design concept derived
from a city planning theory that may solve the
workplace design problems arising from these
changes, and provided a focus for this project.
The Educational Technology office area of
the Advanced Communication and
Information Technology Center (ACITC)
possesses the features representing the general
workplace tendency today. The purpose of
this project was to develop a workplace
neighborhood space prototype for this office
area. This prototype will provide a work
environment conducive to team efforts and
informal interactions and a workplace
neighborhood space model for future
reference.
The project had three design phases: design
programming, design development, and
design evaluation and revision. During the
design programming, a survey questionnaire
was distributed to all of the 12 Educational
Technology employees and behavioral
mapping observations were conducted. Then,
a conceptual plan, a series of workplace space
patterns and a floor plan were developed for
the workplace neighborhood space prototype.
Finally, computer models were prepared for
three neighborhood units for design
evaluation.
The result of the design evaluation indicated
that the concerns between individual and
group work spaces were not solved. The space
prototype was revised, and a computer model
of the revised space prototype was prepared.
The revised space prototype met the work
patterns of the employees more closely and
reflected the design concept of workplace
neighborhood more clearly
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