Microsoft Envisions the Future in O+A Designed Space
What does the future look like? Microsoftis busy figuring it out, in its Envisioning Center, an innovation lab located in Redmond, WA, designed by Studio O+A. “When a technology company has been hugely successful for decades continuing prosperity depends on an ability to anticipate the impact innovative technologies will have on the future,” notes the project brief. “Given the speed of change in the tech world, O+A believed a prototyping lab should be able to change shape as quickly as a prototyper changes focus.” O+A’s design challenge? “Create a fluid, adaptable space in which a company dedicated to making the future brighter could audition emerging technologies in a plausible version of what an office 10 or 20 years from now will likely be.” At the base of O+A’s design for the space is the concept that the office of the future will make technology invisible. “At ICFF, I was speaking …
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