Office of the Future
- Project Entered by: China State Construction Engineering Corporation Middle East
- Design: Gensler Architects and Killa Design
- Client/Owner: Dubai Future Foundation
- Main contractor: China State Construction Engineering Corporation Middle East
- 3D Printing: Winsun
The Office of the Future was the first fully functional 3D-printed building in the world and the main office of The Dubai Future Foundation. Inaugurated in 2016, the 250 square meter Office of the Future is the first building that is built to scale with full functionality and has won a Guinness World Record. It is equipped with meeting rooms, café, lounge and innovative working spaces – a comfortable, attractive and creative space but most importantly, the building’s unique style makes it highly energy-efficient and sustainable.
The office features optimised designs for natural light but is also sculpted to provide plenty of shade, minimising lighting and cooling needs. It is made of 17 modules that are 13 meters wide and 3 meters tall. The building elements were all printed by a giant cement printer inside a warehouse in China that hung from the ceiling. They used a giant robot printing all the elements of the wall, like big U-sections which were shipped to the UAE from China. It was then assembled on-site and built in less than a month, turning it into the beautiful building that you see today in Dubai.
