GEN Design Studio office
The work constitutes a reformulation of interior spaces within an existing building. The aim of the intervention was to unify three small offices into a single and larger one. For the client (a design company mainly with international clients) the function and area that most spaces would need was clear considering the optimization and quality of the work process. As a guiding principle, we opted for the maintenance of pre-existences, even exhibiting traces of the construction phase, in an intervention that sought to return the human scale to a de-characterized space.
Only two of the entrances were maintained, one for the team and another for customers (not often used). The members of the team, being more than 50, are subdivided into three groups: the designers and programmers, who are located in a large space, organized in teams; the project managers, necessarily close to the teams but in a different area connected to the third group, the two directors, in their own workroom.
The central area is flexible and characterized by the presence of a continuous band of panels, that conceal cabinets, entrances to sanitary facilities and the server room. Infrastructural elements are visible in order to guarantee the maximum flexibility and adaptability of the space.
The distribution area of this main work room guarantees access to the remaining spaces and weekly gives way to general lectures that instruct the whole workforce on the ongoing projects, set in an audience format with sound and video projection systems. The meeting room also functions as an extension of the directors room, they are connected by a sliding panel and the continuity of the cork wall cladding that allows to easily post ongoing works and tasks.
The kitchen has a well-organized layout done alongside with the clients to improve lunch times as well as mid-morning and afternoon meals, while also allowing for another kind of work space or a more informal use space. The lighting of the various spaces was studied in order to be adjusted to the different requirements of the teams minimizing the appearance of unwanted reflections.
