The Nest: The development of a post-pandemic business incubator
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Sadler, Eamon
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Degree
Master of Architecture (Professional)
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Unitec, Te Pūkenga – New Zealand Institute of Skills and Technology
Date
2022-10
Supervisors
Wagner, Cesar
Hall, Min
Hall, Min
Type
Masters Thesis
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Manukau (N.Z.)
New Zealand
timber trade industry
construction education
collaborative design
workplace design
architecture for pandemics
COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-
pandemics
health and safety
collaborative learning
New Zealand
timber trade industry
construction education
collaborative design
workplace design
architecture for pandemics
COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-
pandemics
health and safety
collaborative learning
ANZSRC Field of Research Code (2020)
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Sadler, E. (2022). The Nest: The development of a post-pandemic business incubator (Unpublished document submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Architecture (Professional)). Unitec, Te Pūkenga - New Zealand Institute of Skills and Technology https://hdl.handle.net/10652/6083
Abstract
RESEARCH QUESTION
How can architecture contribute to the design of a collaborative workplace and education hub in a post-pandemic environment?
ABSTRACT
This project aims to solve a problem that has been prominent over the last three years. The recent Covid-19 pandemic has profoundly affected businesses and educational facilities, restricting their use to reduce virus transmission rates. Collaborative working environments have been impacted particularly hard by the pandemic. This has been because the demands of collaborative workspaces and the pandemic are inherently opposite. Collaborative workspaces rely on having users engage with one another and work together, and a common pandemic defence method is to maintain social distance from other people. This project will aim to develop a strategy to allow collaborative work to be carried out safely in an incubator for timber trade industries in Auckland’s Manukau City Center in a post-pandemic environment.
Research suggests that incubators are an important part of tertiary education institutions. However, the incubators in focus target primarily medical and computer sciences, not practical industries. Because construction industries are highly collaborative and rely on teamwork, they are an ideal subject to develop an incubator strategy for in a post-pandemic environment. Since the Covid-19 pandemic, research has also been conducted into different methods of pandemic defence which will inform the project’s design process.
The research conducted in this project is necessary because there comes the point where work and learning must be able to continue. It is unrealistic to shut down premises permanently because of the emergence of a new virus. Therefore, an investigation must take place to explore how these working and learning environments can continue functioning as safely as possible.
This project will address the research question by unpacking the design criteria of both incubators and pandemic sensitive workspaces to develop design criteria. Then, this will be combined with spatial arrangement and circulation manipulation to create a hub that allows for collaborative work to be conducted in a pandemic-sensitive manner.
Site: Ronwood Avenue, Manukau, Auckland, New Zealand
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