A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
The 163,000 sq ft extension to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab provides a beautiful example of how a building’s design can promote interaction and collaboration among the people working within its walls. Making those walls—and the rest of the building’s interior spaces—as open and transparent as possible played a critical role in achieving that goal, which not even a delay of four years between the initial design of the project and the start of construction could thwart.
The 163,000 sq ft extension to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab provides a beautiful example of how a building’s design can promote interaction and collaboration among the people working within its walls. Making those walls—and the rest of the building’s interior spaces—as open and transparent as possible played a critical role in achieving that goal, which not even a delay of four years between the initial design of the project and the start of construction could thwart.
Transparent Beauty
Reid, Robert L. (author)
Civil Engineering Magazine Archive ; 80 ; 52-63
2016-01-01
122010-01-01 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
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