The Office Egg

It's an funky egg, on it side.  The angle is to diminish the "solar gain" on the building--which just means diminish how much the sun heats it.  You'll notice that open-air hole at the top, eh?  Well, that's where the sass begins.  In there, we have a garden.  A garden in a hole.  A dream come true!  The garden will perform thermolysis, which is a fancy term for dissipation of heat.  For any of you who have been on a normal roof, especially in a place like India, will feel how hot it is in the seven seconds before you pass out.  This is a natural way of diminishing the sun's impact on the building.  That's quite important in India.

Here we see another garden that will help cool the building all while providing a great place to take a conference call.  Apparently, when you see it from another angle in these promotional photos, Indians will only be able to stare at the Egg, not work in it.

The curved roof and garden area will also be populated with solar panels and wind-powered turbines.  This combo is all the rage, and we here at HAWT love it.  Why not try to make 20% of the energy the building uses?  30%?  50?  Make the building sip less juice and it might save us all.  The building will also have a water recycling system so gray water (water that's been used for cleaning, dish washing, bathing... i.e., tap water) is used to flush toilets and irrigation.

Is it just me, or is that field to the right waiting for more robotic hens to lay more eggs?

Now it's time for the inside, which has a couple of unique features.  First off, the design allows the space to be really open, with 100 feet spans (30 m) of columnless floors.  Sassy.  In addition, the bathrooms are going to have medical stations in them, so to speak, that measure the employee's vitals and records the patterns.  If anything alarming is noticed, doctors can be informed.  With the hot heads I've seen running around non-Egg offices, anywhere else and they'd have to have a doctor on call in the basement. 

The final piece, for now, is something called "cybertechture reality," where employees will be able to pick what the view from their desks is, essentially.  I mean, if my view is out of one of those beautiful windows, I'd say do nothing, but if I'm looking at JLF's face, I'd ask my view to be Cairo or NYC or something.  Looks like the employees will have a lot of decisions to make in this Cybertecture Egg.  I want to make a decision at work outside of, "Lipton tea or water?"

Oh, I wish this was over 300 feet, which would qualify it as a Tall Building, because it is one sassy design.  In fact, this architecture firm already has a Tall Building on HAWT.  Check out the Shuffle Tower.  I wonder what James Law Cybertecture would create if they really shot a building up into the air....

World Architecture News via Gizmodo.