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    The document discusses the overgrowth of vacant office space in Silicon Valley due to high vacancy percentages, creating ideal conditions for mold growth. Specifically: 1) Silicon Valley has a history of agriculture and is home to large corporations, but also has massive amounts of vacant office space reaching the same vacancy levels as Detroit. 2) The moderate temperatures and available nutrients in office buildings foster propagation of new mold species, as vacancies mean less energy is used for maintenance. 3) Various mold species like Aureobasidium and Aspergillus are found growing in office building materials, filters, and dust due to the ideal moist environment.

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    The document discusses the overgrowth of vacant office space in Silicon Valley due to high vacancy percentages, creating ideal conditions for mold growth. Specifically: 1) Silicon Valley has a history of agriculture and is home to large corporations, but also has massive amounts of vacant office space reaching the same vacancy levels as Detroit. 2) The moderate temperatures and available nutrients in office buildings foster propagation of new mold species, as vacancies mean less energy is used for maintenance. 3) Various mold species like Aureobasidium and Aspergillus are found growing in office building materials, filters, and dust due to the ideal moist environment.

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    Fall2011 ThesisTalksBoard Klawley

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    The document discusses the overgrowth of vacant office space in Silicon Valley due to high vacancy percentages, creating ideal conditions for mold growth. Specifically: 1) Silicon Valley has a history of agriculture and is home to large corporations, but also has massive amounts of vacant office space reaching the same vacancy levels as Detroit. 2) The moderate temperatures and available nutrients in office buildings foster propagation of new mold species, as vacancies mean less energy is used for maintenance. 3) Various mold species like Aureobasidium and Aspergillus are found growing in office building materials, filters, and dust due to the ideal moist environment.

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    GROWING OFFICE CULTURES


    Silicon Valley is a damp, unstable, quasi-liquid landscape that has a history of agriculture and is home to some of the largest corporations in the world. There is an over growth of typical office parks that exist which has created an infection of vacant office space in massive numbers. These vacancies are extremely crucial, where specific zones equal to the same percentage of vacancy as Detroit. damp + unstable silicon valley The environmental conditions and physical land of Silicon Valley is fostering the propagation of a new species of growth. Additionally, due to the atmosphere of office buildings, moderate temperatures and available nutrient sources makes it most ideal for mold growth. A significant amount of energy and materials are required for these structures to be maintained while they are in use and after the tenant vacates. With all of these factors merging, it allows a newly sporous architecture of Silicon Valley to materialize.

    fremont / newark

    18.5 %

    palo alto

    san jose - north

    9.8 %
    mountain view / los altos

    21.4 %
    sunnyvale

    san jose IBP / milpitas

    18.6 % 28 %
    santa clara san jose - downtown

    SILICON VALLEY

    7%

    vacancy percentages

    21.6 %

    cupertino

    19 % 23.4 %

    5.6 %
    west valley

    san jose - south

    DETROIT

    15.5 % 28.4 %

    11.7 %

    VACANT OFFICE SF : 11,340,000

    VACANT R&D : 30,400,000

    ?
    current anchors

    CONSTRUCTION

    TENANT

    VACANT on going energy for maintenance

    SITE EXCAVATION FOUNDATION PARKING LOT

    VACANT INDUSTRIAL : 77,760,000

    BUILDING FRAMEWORK INTERIOR MATERIALS


    the office ecology

    CUBICLES

    AIR CONDITIONING

    AUREOBASIDIUM
    building materials painted surfaces filters

    ASPERGILLUS
    cooling coils dust filters fiber-glass insulation

    TRICHODERMA
    building materials dust filters

    FUSARIUM
    humidifier water filters dust

    ALTERNARIA
    cooling coils filters paint dust carpets

    PENICILLIUM
    air conditioners painted surfaces filters

    orchards

    CRYPTOCOCCUS
    floor dust

    STACHYBOTRYS
    building materials

    office parks

    I_1
    surface dust

    I_2
    oatmeal

    I_3
    floor dust day 1 day 3 day 7

    ... what is next?

    outside light + open

    inside dark + closed


    3

    12/4 AM

    12/4 PM

    12/5 AM

    12/5 PM

    12/6 AM

    12/6 PM

    12/7 AM

    12/7 PM

    12/8 AM

    12/8 PM

    12/9 AM

    12/9 PM

    12/10 AM

    12/10 PM

    12/10 PM

    12/11 PM

    12/11 PM

    12/12 PM

    12/12 PM

    day 1

    day 3

    day 7

    kelly lawley / hugh hynes / volatility / fall 2011 / m.arch thesis / 12.13.2011

    mold experiments

    the office ecology

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