来自专筑编辑Brick的报道。从基于活动的工作到基于健康的工作



新工作场所是澳大利亚最大健康保险公司Medibank公司的大型文化变革项目的一部分，目的是为成员、员工和社区创造更好的健康结果。这个愿望驱使Medibank公司创造世界上最健康的工作场所之一。办公楼超越传统基于活动的工作，创造基于健康的工作，这个方法将人的身心健康放在核心位置。

From the architect. From activity-based working to health-based working
The new workplace was part of a major cultural change program for Australia’s largest health insurer Medibank to live its purpose to the core and create better health outcomes for its members, employees and the community. That aspiration drove Medibank to create one of the healthiest workplaces in the world. One that goes beyond conventional Activity Based Working (ABW) to create Health Based Working (HBW) – an approach that places the mental and physical health of people at its heart.

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Medibank公司员工有真正的自由来选择怎样工作和在哪工作。他们手上拿着笔记本和移动电话，现在能从超过26种工作环境中选择，从室内安静的空间和合作中心到能用Wifi的阳台和能站着工作的地方。工作场所某些区域有生理照明，模拟自然光模式，支持人们的生物节律。员工如果想在白天进行更激烈的锻炼，他们也能使用一楼的多功能体育场。

Medibank employees have real freedom to choose how and where they work. With laptops and mobile phones in hand, Medibank’s people can now select from more than 26 types of work settings, ranging from indoor quiet spaces and collaborative hubs to wifi-enabled balconies and places to stand and work. Circadian lighting in certain areas of the workspace mimics natural daylight patterns supporting people’s biorhythms. Employees who want a more vigorous workout during the day can also make use of a multipurpose sports court at ground level.

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一个蔬果园邻近体育场，位于演示厨房附近，Medibank公司用这个厨房向职员、非盈利组织和更广泛的社区推广健康饮食。建筑自身被描述成“为健康而生”。位于柏克街的正门有一个斜坡，从街道平面盘旋而上， 让Medibank公司员工在上班途中便于使用自行车存放处。这个象征性和实际的承诺促进了员工的健康和福祉。

Adjacent to the sports court, an edible garden sits near a demonstration kitchen that Medibank uses to promote healthy eating to both staff, not-for-profit organisations and the wider community. The building itself has been described as being ‘hard-wired for health’. A ramp from the main entrance on Bourke Street spirals upwards from street level, allowing Medibank employees easy access to bike storage on their way in to work.
This makes both a symbolic and practical commitment to encouraging employee health and wellbeing.

Typical Floor Plan/典型平面图

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一个有活力的、会呼吸的建筑改变了周围环境
   
建筑和工作场所都种植了大量的植物。大楼内部有2300株植物，立面有520个模块化种植箱，还有两面25米高的临街绿墙。

A living, breathing building transforms its surrounds
Both the building and the workplace incorporate an enormous number of plants. There are 2,300 inside the building and 520 in modular planter boxes on the façade, as well as two 25-metre high street-facing green walls.

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在工作场所里，植物有助于减缓压力，改善内部空气质量，将景色从灰色变成绿色。大约10%的建筑外面覆盖着澳大利亚自然植物，大楼是“有活力的、会呼吸的建筑”，也在沉闷的混凝土城市环境里提供受人欢迎的舒缓。

Within the workplace this helps relieve stress, improve internal air quality and transforms views from grey to green. With around 10 percent of the building’s exterior covered by native Australian plants, it’s a ‘living, breathing building’ that also provides a welcome relief within its heavily concreted urban surrounds.

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植物的效果结合大楼自身的曲线，传达了更柔和、更人性化的特点。有质感的立面变化莫测，这与很多城市高楼的坚固和不通透的性质形成鲜明的对比。Medibank办公楼不仅是一座大楼，也是通向墨尔本多克兰区的新通道。它在一楼创建了热情的公共区，有木质剧场、咖啡馆、商店和公园，成功回馈周围的社区。

The effect of the planting combined with the curves of the building itself is to convey a softer, more human character. The facade is tactile and unpredictable
– a stark contrast to the solid and impenetrable nature of many city towers. More than just a building, Medibank Place is a new gateway to Melbourne’s Docklands precinct. It succeeds in ‘giving something back’ to its surrounding community by creating a welcoming public precinct at ground level with a timber amphitheatre, cafes, shops and a public park.

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多样化设计思考创造特色和价值
   
Medibank公司想要实现新办公场所的这种创新，这意味着驱动高度协作的设计过程。建筑师和景观设计师致力于工作场所内部，室内设计师和建筑师致力于公园设计，所有三个部门都参与地基建筑设计。HASSELL事务所也邀请了三家不同的设计公司来合作设计位于大楼中间的广场层，这三家公司是Chris Connell Design、Kerry Phelan Design Office和Russell & George。这成功地创造了独具特色和价值的楼层，鼓舞人们以新的方式与他们的工作场所联系。

Diverse design thinking creates character and meaning
Achieving the kind of innovation Medibank wanted for its new workplace meant driving a highly collaborative design process. Architects and landscape architects contributed to the workplace interiors, interior designers and architects to the park and all three disciplines were involved in the base building design. HASSELL also invited three very different design firms – Chris Connell Design, Kerry Phelan Design Office and Russell & George – to collaborate on the design for the plaza level which sits in the middle
of the tower. This succeeded in creating layers of character and meaning to inspire people to connect in new ways with their workplace.

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为Medibank公司传递价值
   
Medibank公司相信，通过提高的生产率和效率，新工作场所将传递文化和经济价值，通过创造适于思想发展的会呼吸的空间，它将有助于激发顾客专注于创新。早期迹象显示大楼已经传递着这些价值。

Delivering value for Medibank
Medibank is confident its new workplace will deliver cultural and financial value through improved productivity and efficiency and will help inspire customer focused innovation by creating breathing space for ideas to grow. Early signs show that the building is already delivering.

Longitudinal Section/纵剖面图

在Medibank公司搬进大楼仅仅四个月之后，79%的员工报告说他们和同事工作合作更协调，70%的员工说在Medibank大楼工作更健康。此外，66%的员工说在这里工作效率更高，公司呼叫中心发现缺勤率下降5%。Medibank公司的人员和文化部门执行总经理Kylie Bishop说，大楼工作场所和周围公共空间“体现了我们的目标、价值和所有我们代表的。”

Just four months after Medibank moved in, 79% of employees reported they were working more collaboratively with their colleagues and 70% said they are healthier working at Medibank Place. What’s more, 66% of employees said they were more productive at Medibank Place and the call centre saw a 5% reduction in absenteeism. As Kylie Bishop, Medibank’s Executive General Manager, People and Culture, puts it, the building, workplace and surrounding public space “epitomises our purpose and value and all that we stand for.”

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Park Plan/园区平面图

建筑设计：HASSELL
项目位置：澳大利亚，维多利亚省达克兰，柏克街
项目面积：47750.0平方米
项目时间：2014年
摄影：Earl Carter
合作：Chris Connell Design, Kerry Phelan Design Office Russell & George

Architects: HASSELL
Location: 720 Bourke Street, Docklands VIC 3008, Australia
Area: 47750.0 sqm
Project Year: 2014
Photographs: Earl Carter
Collaborators: Chris Connell Design, Kerry Phelan Design Office Russell & George

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