This project investigates the marriage between shared office space and socially interactive spaces, through innovative interior space management. The building purpose is to allow users flexibility that molds their business around their social lives, and vice versa, to hopefully improve the quality of everyday living. There is space dedicated to work, areas for socializing, eating and enjoying outside entertainment. All the areas can be controlled and merged accordingly by the users.
Using its location, it aims to provide an external stage for the York ghost tours, using the historical Clifford’s Tower as an appropriate backdrop, whilst creating street frontage and canal-side external spaces. The mixed-use character of the building is designed to draw both the local residents and tourists, to create a cultural hub that is unique to York.
University Masters Project Yr 1
