Table styles

Traditional mexican table- Carlos Slim would almost certainly own one of these.



Ratan Tata is interested in being international and therefore his chosen style of table would probably be a modern one.

a combination of both would create a harmonious atmosphere where by both clients would feel at home.

Ideas for my elevator

An elevator can be a journey- revealing spaces and architecture. The elevator can create architecture- move into a space to bridge a gap, can be intertwined with the architecture-can move up, between and around, under and above spaces and can be slow or fast, open or closed, an elevator can give a different perspective that can only be seen from the elevators path, elevators can be unnecessary, inconvenient, the size of a skinny step or as big as a room, the top of elevator could be the bottom of the table, the side could move up to be the meeting spaces wall, could rotate mid flight, -maybe without you even knowing, could move away fast and enclosed then return slowly without walls to give specific viewpoint.

Elevators

Bridges

Examples of office spaces

A nice way of dividing office spaces


An idea of how personal an office space can be- depending on the individual


An example of how 'unindividual' an office space can be. generally offices are genetic in architectural sense therefore it is up to the individual to create a sense of place within it.


an example of some office spaces, note how the colour changes the mood of the spaces.

This image deals with office layout, common areas and segregate office spaces, it has really nice natural light qualities and uses furnature and flooring elements (rugs, tiles and carpet) to define spaces.


I'm not quite sure what this image is but I included it because I thought the lighting and textures were very interesting. It shows how much effect that light and textures can have on the distortion and emotion of the image.


This image deals with the relationship that an interior office space can have with the outside.

Ratan Tata

You wouldn't expect the head of Tata Group, India's largest conglomerate, to say the rich are boring. But Ratan Tata comes close. Acting rich doesn't interest him. "I've never had the desire to own a yacht, to flaunt," he says. "It's not really [the point]." Nor does the Prada-wearing class excite him as a marketing opportunity. China and India, with their growing ranks of tycoons, should attract multinational businesses not because of the spare million in a few fat wallets, he argues, but because of the spare change in a billion slim ones. "Everyone is catering to the top of the pyramid," says the 68-year-old at his office in Bombay House, Tata Group's elegant Edwardian headquarters in India's business capital. "The challenge we've given to all our companies is to address a different market. Pare your margins. Create new markets."

Shaking the foundations
Time Asia — June 19, 2006

"We need to be bolder and willing to take bigger risks abroad," Ratan Tata had said to THE WEEK in an interview in May 2005. That was at a time when the Tata group had taken a big leap abroad with acquisitions by Tata Motors and Tata Steel.

Risk-taker's dream
The Week — February 8, 2007

ideas: audacious, confident, driven, passionate, daring, had many set backs, courage, determined, international, elegant headquarters, acting rich does not interest him, always looking for a marketing opportunity, risk taker

Carlos Slim

It's not a reverential term. Many Mexicans hoped privatization, which began in the early 1990s, would create competition and drive prices down drastically. That hasn't happened. "Slim is one of a dozen fat cats in Mexico who impede
that country's growth because they run monopolies or oligopolies," says Grayson. "The Mexican economy is highly inefficient, and it is losing its competitive standing vis-à-vis other countries because of people like Slim."

ANYONE EXPECTING TO FIND monuments to the Slim financial empire in Mexico City--a gleaming TelMex tower jutting out of the skyline or an América Móvil stadium--would leave disappointed. In fact, América Móvil, Latin America's
largest provider of wireless services, is housed in a converted tire factory. The juxtaposition of austerity and wealth can be quite odd, as evidenced by a recent visit to the headquarters of Inbursa, Slim's financial business. Just beyond the lobby is a makeshift art gallery that features a rotating selection of paintings on loan from the Museo Soumaya, a Slim-financed fine-arts museum named after his wife, who died in 1999 The room is a bit shabby. It is poorly lit and smells faintly of cigarettes; several large crates are propped against one of the walls. "We had several El Grecos here," Arturo Elias Ayub, Slim's
son-in-law and spokesman, says matter-of-factly. There's also a folding table in the center of the room. "Mr. Slim sometimes likes to eat his lunch here," Elias adds.

The famous Slim thrift--he used to show up for business meetings wearing a cheap calculator watch--extends across the entire company. Years ago he wrote "official principles" for Grupo Carso, his industrial conglomerate,
which are distributed annually to all employees. One tenet translates into English as follows: "Maintain austerity in prosperous times (in times when the cow is fat with milk); it accelerates corporate development and avoids the
need for drastic change in times of crisis." So, for example, TelMex's net debt equals Ebitda, or earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization, a statistic that's unheard-of in its industry, where debt is
typically three times cash flow. América Móvil actually has less debt than Ebitda. "They're rabid about costs," says New York--based Citi investment research analyst Patrick Grenham. "They borrow as little as possible and very carefully."


Ideas: bottom feeder- an opportunist, as in politics or business: bottom feeders who buy up commercial failures, (dictionary.com), a fat cat ruining mexico's economy, monopolies and oligopolies, selfish, rabid about costs, shabby office space, smells of cigarets, eats from a folding table, makes 27 million a day, stingy, mathematicial

Zhang Yin

China's nouveau riche have a reputation for being flashy, but Zhang exudes the plain-speaking confidence that has helped triple the share price of Nine Dragons since its public listing in Hong Kong in March. The only signs of her wealth are a discreet but still stunning diamond ring on her right hand and a large but elegant deep blue sapphire and diamond necklace. Her unvarnished but manicured nails punch the air energetically as she emphasises her points. No, she says, she isn't worried about the extra scrutiny that topping China's rich list brings, which has seen other Chinese tycoons brought down by scandal, unpaid tax and corruption investigations.

"I'm not afraid of being No. 1. As a listed company everything at Nine Dragons is transparent. As I explained to you ... accumulated my fortune by arduous work, penny by penny."

Author(s): Mary-Anne Toy
Section: News And Features; News Review
Publication title: Sydney Morning Herald. Sydney, N.S.W.: Nov 11, 2006. pg. 29

"Fifty years is a short period for an enterprise. Who will own the right to use the land 50 years later?" Zhang asked.

She suggested that enterprises that meet certain requirements should be able to extend their contracts without going through lengthy and complicated application procedures.

In another proposal, Zhang called for a reduction of value-added tax (VAT).

"China's VAT of 17 percent is much higher than it is in neighbouring countries, such as Vietnam, where the VAT ranges between 5 percent and 10 percent," Zhang said. "That is not helpful to maintain the competitiveness of Chinese products in international markets."

Author(s): Lu Haoting and Song Lijun
Publication title: China Daily. (North American ed.). New York, N.Y.: Mar 8, 2007. pg. 6

Ideas: powerful and influencial without being corrupt or scandalous, elegant but not flashy, energetic and hard working, looking for stability instead of instantaneous riches, interested in long term financial security, honesty and trust, inspirated to change and enhance China's productivity,

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Outside Overview



Outside starting point: overview of the meeting space. The ramps lead from the outside and the inside spaces and are place opposite each other to frame the courtyard. This courtyard is designed as a meeting space. the ramps from the courtyard and the circulation makes it virtually impossible for two people to pass without stopping in the courtyard. I have placed a bench at the ultimate view point to allow both Steven Hawking and Florence Nightingale to meet and ponder on their thoughts together. You can also notice in the distant the ramp underneath the main ramp. This is using the idea from my 3rd quote by Charles Darwin; instinct is independant of reason (this is because the instict is to go up the first main ramp where as the second is the quickest to reach the lab space.)



Inside overview

Outside upper space: light representing the ultimate theory, arches representing the beginning of the journey to the ultimate theory, the courtyard representing an ancient court.



Outside middle space: representing a modern courtyard with buildings surrounding a simple path across grass.



Outside lab: clinical lighting, slits in the floor and side opening to interact with the outide and let in natural light.



tunnel from inside space to outside

Inside space: the pyramid represents the beginning of the journey through time to reach the ultimate. the ramp leading to the light from the outside world represents the ultimate that cannot be reached. the ramp leads close but not close enough to bridge the gap between human ability and the ultimate theory.



the pyramid



inside the pyramid



the tunnel in the journey of the inside spaces

Inside space - representing modern architecture with the office building and elevator



Inside on the way to the lab



Inside space- columns representing the classical architecture in the journey through time to find the ultimate theory




Inside of the inside lab space. clinical lighting, simple but effective architecture, no direct lighting

Labs

Different types of Labs: Clinical/bright lighting, simple architecture, complicated tools and machinery

Modern Icons

Modern icons to give me inspiration for the modern element of my design.

Ancient architectural icons

Ancient achitectural icons to give inspiration for my journey through time...

Ancient courtyard

Some examples of courtyards to help me define my outside spaces and to continue the them of a journey through time....

Modern Courtyards