The EdgeThe Edge

©Ronald Tilleman

CREATED AS THE WORLD’S MOST SUSTAINABLE OFFICE BUILDING

成为世界上最可持续发展的办公楼

©Ronald Tilleman

In 2009 PLP was comissioned to design The Edge, Deloitte’s offices in Zuidas, Amsterdam’s business centre. The ambition of the project was two-fold: to consolidate Deloitte’s employees, previously spread around multiple buildings throughout the city, within a single environment; and to create a‘smart building’, intended as a catalyst for Deloitte’s transition into the digital age.

2009年，PLP受委托设计德勤位于阿姆斯特丹商业中心祖达斯的办公室The Edge。该项目的目标有两个:将德勤的员工整合到一个单一的环境中，此前德勤的员工分布在城市的多个建筑中;并创建一个“智能建筑”，旨在作为德勤向数字时代过渡的催化剂。

©Ronald Tilleman

Our design for the building addressed these conditions directly. What is the role of architecture when the workplace is permeated by layers of technology that fundamentally alter the way that we interact with our environment? How can design augment these virtual frameworks to create places that encourage spontaneous sociability? We proposed a building that creates a symbolic display out of the informal collaboration spaces and the multitude of different working atmospheres demanded by new patterns of working - flexible and social, physically and virtually interconnected.

我们的建筑设计直接解决了这些问题。当工作场所被层层的技术渗透，从根本上改变了我们与环境的互动方式时，建筑的作用是什么?设计如何增强这些虚拟框架，创造鼓励自发社交的场所?我们提出了一个建筑，在非正式的合作空间和新工作模式所要求的大量不同的工作氛围中创造了一个象征性的展示——灵活的、社交的、物理上和虚拟上相互联系的。

©Ronald Tilleman

Our starting point was the design of a social condenser – a nucleus for the building.Taking the form of an atrium interspersed with bridges and exposed lift cores,which act as nodes of horizontal and vertical activity; this nucleus collates a series of social environments in order to galvanize a specific internal working culture. The atrium acts as a giant theatrical device: a stage that is visible from the surrounding offices which are arrayed as an amphitheatre around it as well as a lens that broadcasts the multiplicity of social encounters as a civic spectacle to the city beyond.

我们的出发点是设计一个社会冷凝器——建筑的核心。以中庭的形式穿插桥梁和暴露的电梯核心，作为水平和垂直活动的节点，这个核心整理了一系列的社会环境，以激发一个特定的内部工作文化。中庭作为一个巨大的戏剧装置：一个舞台，可以从周围的办公室看到，这些办公室被排列成一个圆形剧场，同时它也是一个镜头，向城市以外的地方传播社会的多样性。

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The scale of the space, and the atmospheres created by a subtle differentiation in materials and lighting, make the atrium a natural gathering place. It is lofty but calm, filled with steady north light which filters in through the low-e glass of the atrium façade. As a continuous surface, this façade folds into the roof to animate the building, not only acting as a window that unveils its daily activities to the outside but also framing the varying surroundings to the inside.

空间的尺度，以及由材料和照明的微妙差异所创造的氛围，使中庭成为一个自然的聚集地。这是崇高的，但平静，充满了稳定的北极光过滤通过低辐射玻璃的中庭立面。作为一个连续的表面，这个立面折叠到屋顶，使建筑充满活力，不仅作为一个窗口，向外部展示其日常活动，而且向内部框架变化的环境。

In The Edge, employees no longer have assigned desks. This allows them to work anywhere in the building in varying levels of introspection or sociability: there are work-booths, focus rooms, concentration rooms, sitting desks, standing desks, balcony desks, along with the many work-stations within the sun-filled atrium itself. The building adapts to the users’ preferences for lighting and heating via a mobile app, which also allows users to locate their colleagues and find free desks. The combination of app and architecture supports activity-based working: employees actively choose the environment, mood and atmosphere they want to work in for different tasks throughout the day.

在The Edge，员工不再有指定的办公桌。这使得他们可以在建筑的任何地方工作，以满足不同程度的自省或社交:有工作台、焦点室、集中室、坐式桌子、站立式桌子、阳台桌子，以及阳光充足的中庭内的许多工作台。该建筑通过移动应用程序来适应用户对照明和供暖的偏好，该应用程序还允许用户定位他们的同事并找到免费的办公桌。应用程序和架构的结合支持基于活动的工作:员工主动选择他们想要在一天中的不同任务中工作的环境、心情和氛围。

While sustainability as a purely technological narrative has been exhausted by its overuse, The Edge creates a radically new working environment which is enabled by sustainable technologies. With the world’s highest rating awarded to an office building by the Building Research Establishment (BRE), the global assessor of sustainable buildings, The Edge combines numerous smart technologies in tandem to create an adaptable and intelligent working environment.

虽然可持续发展作为一种纯粹的技术叙事已经因其过度使用而枯竭，但The Edge创造了一个由可持续技术支持的全新工作环境。作为全球可持续建筑评估机构——建筑研究机构(BRE)授予办公楼的世界最高评级，the Edge将众多智能技术结合在一起，创造了一个适应性强的智能工作环境。