Megha Menon MSc Architecture and Environmental Design

Redefining the Environmentally-Responsive Office Building: A prototype for a bioclimatic, pandemic-prepared office building in Dubai

This thesis design project aims to explore a new office building prototype that is appropriate to the context of Dubai, not only by responding to the local hot desert climate, but also to the new emerging global context of a pandemic-prone environment, with unpredictable occupancy and behavioural norms.