Marco Guarnieri and Lea Katz were appointed in 2003 to design the new offices and production unit of Pack Line in TelAviv in Israel. Two existing buildings on a site in the district of Holon were completely reorganised to house the new facilities of the company. The new production floor in the shed building was reorganised according to the production requirements of the company. The flow of materials, components and assembled products became the material that organized the production. An input of material and components from one loading bay reaches the storage room or the assembly field. The product once assembled can then be output from loading bay. A continuous structure of offices and services completes the production unit floor.
The office building was characterized by an elongated layout, but we chose to challenge the organisation of the typology of office building in which offices are normally distributed along a corridor. Instead we proposed to organise half of the floor as formal enclosed offices and the other half as open space offices. This internal layout strategy allowed for a bigger volume to be appreciated by visitors and above all avoided diminishing the experience of guest and users of the building circulating through corridors. A service wall divides the two spatial types of offices, which contains all the services for the office: archives, storing, lighting, air-conditioning, cabling and wiring. The requirements for storage, archiving and air-conditioning of the space determined the pattern and depth of the units hanging from the wall.
