ORGANIZATION OF SOCIAL COMMUNICATIONS IN THE OFFICE CENTERS ARCHITECTURE OVER THE LAST YEARS

Abstract

Office centers and big office parks with the comfortably organized environment are in a huge demand type of buildings over the last years.
 Research on communication in the architecture of twenty seven “A-class” office buildings in Great Britain, Denmark, Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Estonia, France, Germany, Austria, Italy, and Portugal in years 2017-2019 is based upon these given meanings of a term «social communication»: 1) ... is a process which connects different parts of a social network with one another; 2) ...is a transmission of information, ideas, emotions, in form of signs and symbols.
 Flexible plannings of European office buildings, which can be instantly transformed, according to the company’s needs are best suited with an adhocratic type of organizational culture in Europe.
 This work consists of the analysis of the features of social communications in office centers based on: · social communications between people; · social communications between people and the environment.
 Organization of social communications: 1. External: (“office is a part of a city environment”) A) integration of a building in the city environment by using · restaurant and cafes on bottom floors; · planting of greenery; · patios and transit area spaces; entering zone, rooftop lounge-zones with open access; B) connection with the surrounding panorama by using solid glass facades, which also represents transparency of work processes; C) informing through building design about the company’s work stability with static facades. 2. Internal: A) horizontal (existence of individual space in shared space): “openoffice” system with open and semi-open spaces with constant working zones on the perimeter of the building, negotiation rooms, opened zones for the teamwork and temporary workspaces “touch down”- type; B) vertical: administration zon, talk rooms, shared communicative spaces; 3. A) planned and formal: training room, talk rooms, conference-rooms. B) random and situational: all office spaces (working zones excluded) including stairs and ramps. Office spaces also provide direct and indirect; interpersonal, intergroup and inter-organizational social communication [12].