Workplace On Demand

What has been called the "office" is no longer an arena for business activities, which are now carried out in far more diverse places. The fluidity of corporate organization and the advance of information technology cause the needs of each facility to change very quickly. A strategy of a fixed office is no longer capable of dealing with this situation. What is in demand now is a concept of flexible workplaces which offer what is needed at the place and time it is needed.


 
United Airline's "Red Carpet Club", JFK Airport, New York,USA
Workplace On Demand  
The electronic net work encompassing the globe has erased the physical barriers of time and place. Turn on your personal computer and your office will appear in front of you in a matter of seconds. Various spaces such as stations, airports and hotels become make-shift workplaces. The workplace on demand is a work space which provides what is needed when it is needed. This issue explores diverse cases of such services in New York and Paris.
 
 
SNCF / Paris, FRANCE
 
 
 
AMTRAK
 
 
 
AMERICAN AIRLINES
 
 
 
SHERATON New York Hotel & Towers / New York, New York, USA
Hotel Serving as a Workplace
 
REGUS PARIS / Paris, FRANCE
Regus Offers Tailor-made Services.
 
THE OMNI OFFICES GROUP
 
Science,Industry and Business Library
Opened in May, 1996 as a part of the New York Public Library, the Science Industry and Business Library (commonly known as SIBL) is devoted to providing information in the fields of science, technology, economy and business, as its name implies. The library holds a hybrid of resources in the forms of books amounting to 12.5 million titles and electronic data. There are 70 PCs in the Research Library, and a total of 500 carrels are provided with writing to allow users to plug in their laptop computers in order to connect to the online catalogs of the New York Public Library and to the Internet or any databases in the world free of charge.
 
Information Services Center Electronic Information Center / New York, New York, USA
 

atelier 4 Architecture

 
The atelier 4 Architecture, commonly known as a4A, is a virtual network formed by four principal architects plus other professionals such as designers, landscape architects, and consultants. Founded in 1992, a4A has completed numerous projects with a philosophy that a4A should be dedicated to designing working and living spaces for the information age.
CUbE, a French acronym meaning the Urban center for the Outside office, is one of such projects. This is a mini center equipped with state-of-the-art information technology.
 
prototype of CUbE / Paris, FRANCE