TYPICAL OFFICE FLOOR PLAN
Suspended in the main reception, hang
the roots. Functioning as receptors, their
individual branches carry words related to
sensory perception. The suspension of the
roots and their consequent reaching into the
open clefts of the separate floors, lends to the
verticality of the space, and indeed the entire
building above.
At the heart of the building, stretching up
several levels, is the stem of Transpiration I
which spans from floor to ceiling, defining the
depth of the void by its presence. The trunk’s
connection of the floor and ceiling creates
tension. It is not a structural architectural
element, but instead represents an independent
somewhat organic presence expanding
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through the space. Emerging from the seams of
the splitting outer husk are lines of text that speak
to the process of organising random stimuli into
streams of coherent information.
Piercing through the floor of the upper atrium,
and unfolding upward into the sky, is the canopy,
its fronds and branches, defined by the lexicon of
human emotion in various stages of becoming.
The monolithic solidity of the trunk suddenly
breaks as it spreads into bra nches that reach
outward and upward, in a motion of liberation.
Similar to the way that the suspension of the
roots in the lower atrium accent the height of
the vertical space, the compression of space in
relation to the reach of the canopy accentuates
the volume of its surroundings.
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