Value Lab: Collaboration in Space

Visualization of huge data sets for activities in business worlds, entertainment industries and extended visualization in sciences are one of the most exciting chances in architecture. They can result in interweaving physical spaces - physical architectures - with electronic data spaces - virtual architectures. Places and localities with distances in geographical, intercultural and economic matters do not need to exist separated any longer. The networking concepts shout for the use of new architectural languages. Architectural interfaces in physical and digital spaces deliver associated communication, collaboration and learning - breaking up distances in time and geographic spaces. Inside this paper we will discuss how information architecture could be set up in existing buildings with the Value Lab as an example and which methods can be used to develop and to design physical architecture. We present the Value Lab as a recent prototype for Information Architecture.