4th place

Fourth Place conceives a new civic typology that facilitates in-person social engagement through practical combining of communication technologies and the built environment. The project reinterprets the work of sociologist Ray Oldenburg, in which the First Place is identified as home, the Second Place is work, and the Third Place is defined as a neutral public space that acts as a backdrop for social interaction.

Fourth Place is a synthesis of the First, Second, and Third Places with the ambition to mediate an informal public space existing within the confluences between each typology. The conceptualization of this new public setting exists only in this realm of ‘in-between’. It is not a new spatial typology, but a new civic typology that invokes new spatial relationships. Fourth Place hosts a virtual library, symposium center, cafe, auditorium and makerspace. New spatial relationships emerge as a result of the clustering of these disparate yet coinciding cultural spaces into a singular entity. Fourth Place is a speculation towards how architecture will adapt to the increasing synthesis of digital networks and the built environment.

Geometrie:             Rhinoceros & Grasshopper

Visualization:         Twinmotion & Vray
Animations:            Twinmotion & Adobe After Effects 

Model:                      3D Printing, CNC Milling