Matrix Beyond Bronze Toe Fa'aleleia o le Fale Ofisa e Shujian You

O le mamanu Matrix Beyond Bronze Toe Fa'aleleia o le Fale Ofisa e Shujian You o se manumalo maualuga tele o le fa'ailoga mamalu 2025 A' Design Award Uʻamea i le Vaega Tauva Mamanu Fausaga Fale.

UʻameaFausaga Fale· 2025

Matrix Beyond Bronze Toe Fa'aleleia o le Fale Ofisa

na mamanuina e Shujian You

Tagata Fa'atau: Sj

Manumalo o le A' Design Award Uʻamea i le Vaega Fausaga Fale

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Le Mamanu

E Uiga ia Matrix Beyond Bronze Toe Fa'aleleia o le Fale Ofisa

E liua'i e lenei poloketi le Seagram Building fa'aonaponei ma avea ma nofoaga galulue o le lumana'i, fa'amuamua le soifua manuia o tagata ma le matāfaioi i le si'osi'omaga ae tausia pea lona foliga i'uga apamemea iloga. O se fausaga pa'u fa'alua fou e fa'aleleia ai le fa'atinoga malosi, o totonu e fa'amatalaina ai e fausaga fa'aopoopo ni vaega fesuia'i, e avea ma mea vaevae ma mea teu e toe fa'atulagaina ai le fuafuaga lautele. I le taliaina o mana'oga o nofoaga galulue pe a mae'a le fa'ama'i lautele, e toe fa'afousia ai e lenei gaioiga le Seagram Building, toe fa'amauina lona tāua e ala i se mamanu i totonu ua toe fa'afouga.

Le Fa'ailogaina

E Uiga i le A' Design Award Uʻamea

O le A' Design Award Uʻamea na manumalo ai Matrix Beyond Bronze Toe Fa'aleleia o le Fale Ofisa, o se faamaoniga mamalu e tuuina atu i mamanu lelei e faataunuu ai manaʻoga faapolofesa ma pisinisi e faamoemoeina mai galuega ua mamanuina lelei. O ē manumalo i le Uʻamea e faaalia ai le tomai tele, le faapitoa maualuga, le malamalama o tagata poto ma le mafai fatufatuaʻi o ē na faia. E faamoemoeina Matrix Beyond Bronze Toe Fa'aleleia o le Fale Ofisa e avea ma mea ua matuā vivii, mataʻina ma pelepelea e aogā ma fou. O lenei mamanu na manumalo i le A' Design Award Uʻamea e tuufaatasia ai faiga sili o le pisinisi ma e iai uiga faatekonolosi mafai ua fesoʻotaʻi ma le poto ma le taleni. Ona o lona faatuatuaina, e tatau ai Matrix Beyond Bronze Toe Fa'aleleia o le Fale Ofisa ona faaaloalogia ma ua mamanuina e tuuina mai ai faaleleiga o le olaga e fesoasoani e faia ai e le lalolagi se nofoaga e sili atu ona lelei.

I Tua o le Mamanu

Pepa Fa'asalalau

Fa'amaoniaga, sui o le 'au ma fa'amatalaga fa'atekinisi na saunia e le tagata mamanu.

Uiga Fa'apitoa: This project reimagines the Seagram Building by superimposing a 45-degree grid onto its modernist framework, creating a double-skin facade that enhances energy efficiency while preserving its heritage, with triangular wellness spaces in between. Added structures transform the office space into adaptable zones, serving as storage, partitions, and stairs that redefine the open-plan layout. The design prioritizes well-being, sustainability, and a forward-thinking workplace vision.
Fua & Fa'apipi'i: The Seagram Building’s vertical structure and facade remain intact, while every other concrete floor and beams are replaced with a CLT system, integrating with the existing frame, ensuring vertical and lateral stability. The void between CLT and the original structure conceals a retrofitted mechanical system, optimizing energy efficiency and space utilization. This approach enhances functionality, sustainability, and allows the upgrades to happen without altering the building’s historic exterior.
Fa'ailoga: Building Renovation, Workplace, Co-working Space, Modular Design, Sustainable Design
Tekonolosi Gaosiga: The facade retrofit employs a modular CLT and double-glazed curtain wall system, ensuring precision, reduced waste, and efficient on-site assembly. Sustainably sourced timber provides structural integrity and warmth, while high-performance glazing enhances insulation. The directional facade strategy and Integrated blinds offer additional shading, reducing energy demand. The modular approach allows seamless integration with the existing structure, preserving heritage while upgrading thermal and spatial efficiency.
Lu'itau o le Mamanu: The greatest challenge was balancing modern sustainability with the Seagram Building’s historic integrity. The rigid modernist grid conflicted with the need for a workplace suggested by latest researches that value boundaries as a tool for productivity and well-being. The solution emerged by superimposing a 45-degree grid, introducing modular storage partition units and an inner facade system. This approach preserved the original aesthetic while enhancing building energy performance and redefining spatial boundaries as a positive element that enhances workplace quality.
Su'esu'ega: This research explores building energy efficiency, workplace design through post-pandemic shifts, and spatial psychology. It aims to provide a scalable strategy to transform heritage office buildings with improved sustainability and workers' well-being. Using case studies, simulations, and expert interviews, data was collected on improved building energy performance with added inner facade system, and altered office behavior with partitions. Testing modular partition of different plans and openness revealed how structured boundaries enhance focus and productivity, providing a direction for future workplace design.
Fa'aosofia: The Seagram Building, a modernist icon, embodies minimalist elegance but reflects a time when energy efficiency was secondary. It highlights the challenge of adapting heritage buildings to modern performance standards and evolving workplace needs, especially post-pandemic. Open-plan offices, once symbols of collaboration, now face criticism for lacking personal boundaries. How can we honor modernist architecture while meeting today’s demand for sustainable, human-centered office spaces?
Umi o le Poloketi: Future project in New York City
Fa'agasologa o Galuega: Added structures serve as staggered partitions and storage walls, balancing fluid movement and the creation of spatial boundaries while redefining the open-plan layout. They form diverse work zones, integrating reception, meeting spaces, a library, a refreshment lounge, and staircases to foster interaction. Integrated AR/MR systems amplify collaboration, enabling seamless interaction between physical and remote virtual spaces.