Esra Karagoz – Founder of onE.GLobe. Architect

Biography

Esra is the founder of onE.GLobe. She is a creative design professional, licensed & registered architect in New York State and Turkey. She studied architecture and interior architecture. She has expert knowledge of smart cities & buildings, sustainable building design & construction, wellness-driven design, and building information modeling. She lived and worked in various parts of the world, including New York, San Francisco, Istanbul, and Stuttgart, over fifteen years. She developed a unique design approach with her worldly experience. Having experience in various markets from aviation, corporate office, luxury retail, hospitality, mixed-use residential, and commercial, Esra provides artistic, innovative, evidence-based, and data-driven design solutions for a broad range of building types of different scales.

 

Description

WorkOut is a worldwide network and an outdoor pop-up workspace with enhanced filtration and air cleaning systems for remote workers and students. It can also be used for leisure activities such as reading and writing. It remediates the effects of isolation on individuals as providing human-nature and random human interactions as well as global co-working, and networking opportunities for its members. It gives people the chance to step outside, socialize, and exercise while accomplishing their daily work-related goals. The biophilic design of WorkOut and exercise opportunities in nature reduces stress levels, boost positive feelings, and support the nervous system. WorkOut has various sustainability and wellness features.

• It is designed with sustainable materials such as FSC-certified wood.
• It supports biodiversity with green walls, which is drip-irrigated with harvested rainwater.
• It has an autonomous energy harvesting with transparent thin-film photovoltaic cells applied to shades and glass to produce electricity for modules.
• It has a waterless toilet and a coffee shop module with bio-digesters converting waste to energy and fertilizer.
• It has variable opacity glazing with electrochromic glass to reduce transmissivity by a minimum of 90%.
It has re-configurable modules to provide adaptability to different locations taken into account various space and daylight access restrictions.
• It has sensor-operated lighting responsive to daylight and occupancy to dim and switch off lights automatically.
• It has external automated shading with manual override to prevent glare and optimize the view. WorkOut: Worldwide network and outdoor pop-up workspaces with enhanced filtration and air cleaning systems for remote workers and students. Smart City, Construction, 3D printing.
• It has robotic architectural solutions to automate sliding and folding desks, doors, and partitions to minimize the footprint and provide a flexible environment to serve multiple uses, contactless access, and temperature assessment devices at entry points.
• It has enhanced filtration and air-cleaning systems, natural ventilation, automated surface cleaning, and disinfection systems with spraying.

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