Rosenholm Campus
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Summer 2017
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This assessment was commissioned by Aspelin Ramm, with the goal of investigating the potentials after IBM's exit out of Rosenholm Campus (RC), a 42 000sqm commercial real estate. The entire office complex served as IBM headquarters from 1987-2006 (only 25% the last years). It is located in Oppegård kommune, and was designed by Geir Grung. The publication was written under the title, "Rosenholm Campus - en interdisiplinær utredning 2017", (an interdisciplinary assessment 2017).
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Introduction
Aspelin Ramms key goals for RC post-IBM (25% vacancy), were to answer to the dynamics of future workspaces (freelancers and small businesses in more flexible workspaces), and attracting the creative youth (next generation knowledge workers). This assessment question whether if these goals are valid at all, as the investigation both debunks and partially confirms AR's key goals, seeking out the geographically intrinsic, as opposed to the conceptually preconceived. More importantly, the assessment concludes with a multi-faceted proposal of both material and immaterial concepts.
The exit of IBM is not an isolated incident at RC. Every major corporation in Mastemyr Næringspark (business cluster in which RC is a part of), has already left, or on their way (IBM, Boscch, Kodak, Volvo, Unitor, etc.). There will be a tidal change of both social and professional nature in Mastemyr that has not occurred in the upcoming years.
Organic clustering of gazelle companies in the Mastemyr area (third most dense municipality in Norway), and other notable subcultures.
The youths (19-24) only represents 6% of Oppegård with 1% growth, whereas the millenials-middle aged segment represented 52% with 15% growth.
95,8% of its citizens works in small- or medium-sized firms (1-9 employees), yet 70% commute out of the municipality for work.
Proposal
There lies an untapped potential in successfully attracting millenials to middle-aged target groups in small businesses, supporting the claim of establishing the future of workspaces (95,8% of the workforce in Oppegård).And against the odds, a parallel strategy attracting a younger generation (The Worst will be looking into this). The proposal range from everything from automated buses, syndicates, curation, conceptual and cultural planning through furnishing and programmatic accuracy etc.
Scaleable real estate model?
More importantly, the assessment delve traditional and new tendencies in commercial real-estate, and speculates on a third one, how physical sqm, can be scaleable by 3-5 times its worth. This also dictates a critical condensation of human mass, making it possible to house 3 times more than average in existing buildings. The illustrations below show a comparative study of the traditional (kvm-basert), new tendencies (medlemsbasert), and the speculative one (behovsbasert) in different mediums.