O'biz tower lobby by anD + MOTOElastico
The lobby of a multistorey office building is a place that people cross every day to go somewhere else. It is often a stage of a journey or a place for an encounter, but rarely a final destination...
For these reasons it is a space with a very pragmatic identity: a uniform background witnessing the daily stream of business. The O’biz Tower Lobby challenges all these ideas to create a space full of identity using a highly visible and recognizable pattern. It is a 70’s show set design or a striped renaissance Cathedral, a shot of color on a grey concrete canvas. To enhance the graphic features of the project, we used a striped tridimensional pattern that goes well beyond the limits imposed by the interior space. The pattern starts on the pavement of the public plaza around the building, and it leads the users towards the main reception area. The stripes work as a filter: they collect the visitors from outside and redirect them towards their final destination within the building. The lobby becomes a landmark, a geometric progression, where a simple design feature is used to organize all the elements of the space: floor, walls, ceilings, furniture and lighting uniformly.
The lobby is more than 11 meters high, so we decided to lighten up the construction of the higher areas, without compromising the pattern composition. The project was realized alternating two different kind of stone, green oriental marble and gray granite, for the floor and the lower parts of pillars; while for the ceilings we used laser cut punched metal panels in two colors and different patterns. All the lighting apparatus is with led technology. It all comes down to a 60x60 cm construction grid, which makes all the project completely modular and eventually adaptable to different locations.
anD + MOTOElastico are:
Luca Villa + Simone Carena + Marco Bruno + Minji Kim + design team
photographers: Ulla Reimer & Yujin Yeon
