Working Forces is a design for a hotel cum office situated next to the Netherlands Rail station in Eindhoven. The title refers both to the building's design and to the function it houses. Both are informed by haphazard, dynamic processes that are never static but continually changing over time. The building offers work space lettable to small companies and private individuals for a period that can vary between an hour and several years. The function requires comfortable workplaces, a free exchange of data and freedom of physical movement from, to and inside the building. The plan is fully open and multifunctional with facilities for offices, sports, restaurants, an auditorium, a mixed-media library and a hotel. The freely subdivisible floor plan and the routes inside the building stimulate contacts between those using the hotel/office. Folded floors of lightweight concrete constitute the structure and give the building its form. The facade, consisting of a freestanding pleated expanse of glass, has an important part to play in the climate control inside the building as well as doubling as a projection screen. The pc has figured prominently in the design process, resulting in a 'new' architecture. An architecture that is the outcome of a constantly changing and growing design process rather than of a preconceived idea. Institution: TU Eindhoven Tutors: Gerard van Zeijl, Tom Dubbelman & Wim Huisman Specialization: architecture