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Typologies
The suburbanization of the corporate office was manifested through three
distinct typologies, the office park, the corporate campus, and the
corporate estate. For this project, I will focus on the office park
as it pertains to the specific case of the Ford Motor Company's Fairlane
Development in Dearborn,
Michigan, and have adopted
Mozingo’s definition of the office park (below).
“The
office park is the speculative, developer-response to the environmental
preferences first seen in the corporate campus and the corporate
estate…. Developers of office parks establish a consistent scheme of
gateways, street design, signs, planting design, and architecture, similar
to the ‘package’ residential suburb. Individual
buildings, architecturally generic, are each surrounded by their own pool
of parking. Landscaped open space is limited to roadways and
ornamental frontage along the always adjacent highway. Developers of
office parks always struggle between maximizing square footage and
maximizing landscape image.”1
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