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🚀 NBBJ Design's guide to revitalizing outdated office buildings is a step in the right direction. Let's look through a regenerative lens: 🌿 Regenerative Playbook: Utilize a set of buildings or micro-district community-based design for better economics - using the greater whole to amplify the outcomes and impacts. Guiding Principles: 🌍 Place-Based Development: Design solutions that honor the building's unique cultural and ecological context 🤝 Story of Place Process: Engage stakeholders to co-create a shared vision 🔃 Holistic Systems Thinking: Integrate social, ecological, and economic health collectively Ground Floor Activation: 🛍️ Community Hub: Transform the ground floor into a vibrant hub with local markets, coworking spaces, and cultural centers Rooftop Ecosystem: 🌱 Renewable Energy and Biodiversity Habitat: Utilize the rooftop for solar panels, wind turbines, greenhouses, and biodiversity gardens protected with subtle netting Flexible Interior Spaces: 👨💻 Multipurpose Coworking and Onsite Daycare: Support collaboration and family-friendly environments 🧘♀️ Wellness and Fitness Zones: Quiet rooms, gym, and yoga studio 🛠️ Makerspaces and Innovation Labs: Spaces for prototyping and interdisciplinary collaboration 🍽️ Community Kitchens and Cafeterias: Shared kitchens and a farm-to-table cafeteria 🏢 Modular Meeting and Event Spaces: Multipurpose rooms with movable walls 📚 Resource and Knowledge Centers: Library, resource center, and knowledge exchange 🍼 Parent-Friendly Zones: Onsite daycare and family lounge 🎮 Recreation and Social Engagement Spaces: Games room and outdoor play areas 🌳 Nature Integration Spaces: Indoor greenhouses and atrium forests 💼 Flexible Office Pods and Workstations: Privacy pods and ergonomic desks 🛏️ Mental Health and Recovery Spaces: Counseling and recovery rooms Utilities Upgrade: 💧 Smart, Regenerative Utilities: Greywater recycling, smart building management, and passive design Cultural Mezzanine: 🎨 Open-Air Patios and Social Engagement Spaces: Terraces for fitness classes, yoga, and art exhibitions Biodiversity Gardens: 🦋 Rooftop Habitat: Native plant gardens, insect hotels, and bird boxes with netting to deter large birds 🌿 Vertical Gardens: Living walls with diverse native plants 🌲 Indoor Atrium Forests: Atriums with trees and water features In a modern regenerative world, office buildings become vibrant ecosystems where people and nature thrive together. #RegenerativeDevelopment #OfficeTransformation #FlexibleSpaces #Sustainability #Biodiversity #Innovation
Co-Founder & COO: Factory. Building Europe’s largest tech campuses. I write about property, cities & innovation.
We now have five ways to save office buildings before it's too late. Here’s the playbook. NBBJ Design released a guide of architectural (and programmatic) interventions to help save our outdated, unused office buildings. You’ll find the full feature via Fast Company linked in the comments. TL;DR… 1. Reconsider ground floor. Make it more accessible. 2. Accessible roof. Activate it for tenants (others too). 3. Green mezzanine. Create open-air patios. 4. Upgrade utilities. Meet modern standards for energy. 5. Convert spaces. Convert offices for other uses. What’s missing? #adaptivereuse
