Design
Need More Office Space? Just Stick Some in the Alley
Could offices that clamp onto larger buildings or wander across town be the wave of the future?
In the future, commercial real estate in a severely built-up city might not move outward or upward but in between, or all around.
That's the idea behind these unconventional designs for urban offices, meant to survive in an expensive marketplace by exploiting unoccupied nooks and crannies in the urban environment. First, have a look at this concept for a "Parasite Office," a creation of Russia's Za Bor Architects (you win a prize if you can figure out how to work their website):