UNITS, a reflexion on workspaces for a flexoffice.
UNITS is a project for BETC - Les Magasins Généraux in the eastern Parisian suburb (PANTIN), which aims to rethink the concept of the office, proposing a series of precise and flexible solutions for reconfiguring the traditional workspace.
4 typologies of spaces:
CAB: an hybrid between a sofa and a flight of steps, made with recycling rub, geared towards the urban landscape that borders the building.
F1: an area for focusing. Re-used furniture elements (2 “Less” tables designed by Jean Nouvel) are placed one on top of another and are used as a framework for a curtain that follows a curved line.
TGV: a space for confidential discussion with walls made from white AAC blocks. The special technical ceiling allows the intensity of incoming light to be adjusted, starting from a soft candle light, up to an artificial cold light in order to answer different user types.
UNIT6: a meeting space, an opaque strip that becomes a visual and sound filter, providing intimacy but letting in air and light. The materials (bituminous tiles and tropicalized steel) call to mind suburban artisan’s industrial areas.
The workspace looks like a large library where individuals and information flow freely, thereby overturning and distorting the spatial characteristics of the offices as we are used to imagining them.
