Italian architect Carlo Ratti has transformed a Turin building into an office space with a personalised "environmental bubble" for every worker.
Office 3.0 – first previewed in plans in the middle of last year – is the new headquarters for the Agnelli Foundation cultural institution in Turin, Italy.
Ratti's firm, Carlo Ratti Associati, renovated the foundation's 20th-century home in the neighbourhood of San Salvario to turn it into a contemporary office that is part of the Internet of Things, with a thermostat that automatically adjusts to its employees' wishes.
Office 3.0's heating and cooling – as well as its lighting – can all be personalised to individual preferences, creating a little environmental bubble for each worker that then "follows" them from room to room.
The system is based on hundreds of WiFi-enabled sensors that collect data relating to occupancy, temperature, carbon dioxide concentration, and the status of meeting rooms.
