![]() ![]() Massive flatscreens around every corner can be synced wirelessly with any phone or laptop.ĭeloitte’s general philosophy with the Edge was that anything with a return on investment of less than 10 years is worth a try. There are also game rooms and coffee bars with espresso machines that remember how you like your coffee. ![]() Some tiny rooms at the Edge contain just a lounge chair and a lamp (no desk)-perfect for a phone call. The concept is called hot desking, and it’s supposed to encourage new relationships, chance interactions, and, just as important, efficient use of space. “We’re starting to notice that office space is not so much about the workspace itself it’s really about making a working community, and for people to have a place that they want to come to, where ideas are nurtured and the future is determined." New Way of WorkingĪbout 2,500 Deloitte workers share 1,000 desks. “A quarter of this building is not allocated desk space, it’s a place to meet,” says Ron Bakker, architect of the Edge at London-based PLP Architecture. Every workspace is within 7 meters (23 feet) of a window. The atrium and its iconic slanted roof, which looks from the outside as if a wedge has been sliced off the building, floods the workspaces with daylight and provides a sound buffer from the adjacent highway and train tracks. Even on a stormy day, the building remains opalescent with natural light and angles of glass. Slight heat variations and air currents make it feel like the outdoors. Mesh panels between each floor let stale office air spill into open space, where it rises and is exhaled through the roof, creating a loop of natural ventilation. The atrium is the gravitational center of the Edge’s solar system. “We connect them, we make them more efficient, and in the end we will actually need fewer buildings in the world.” Fifteen-Story Atrium “We think we can be the Uber of buildings,” says Coen van Oostrom, chief executive officer of OVG Real Estate, the building’s developer. The panels are also packed with sensors-motion, light, temperature, humidity, infrared-creating a “digital ceiling” that wires the building like synapses in a brain.Īll told, the Edge is packed with some 28,000 sensors. The super-efficient LED panels, made by Philips specifically for the Edge, require such a trickle of electricity they can be powered using the same cables that carry data for the Internet. The building of the future necessitated invention. ![]()
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