(un)curtain office

versatile working venue

 

video by Alessandro Fonte

 
 
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An office that enables its users to operate dynamically, impulsively and diversely, with modular furniture and no predetermined fixed spatial partitioning, which is versatile enough to offer space for personal comfort and technological changes with ease and elegance. The reinforced concrete pillar structure and load bearing exterior walls were already able to provide the huge fluid open space, but were wrapped in carbon reinforcement, which gave them a new visual identity. The floor was also reinforced, and the trowelled concrete gave the huge empty space uniform character, only to be emphasised with the trowelled glue ceiling.

The furniture was designed as a modular system of tables and drawers made out of three-layered birch wooden panels. The system itself allows the users to change the disposition of the furniture according to their needs and desires. Each table has its own mini-garden that separates one table from another. The system of curtains used to partition the office allows for countless scenarios of operation and appearance of the space. In a few seconds a meeting room with a large table for discussion can turn into a dining room with a mini library and a kitchen. In the next moment the separated offices, arranged around the central corridor, can smoothly merge into a common open space, suitable for collective work, a social event or even a pop-up store.

 
 
 

location: Ljubljana, Slovenia
project date: 2013
completion date: 2014
area: 350 m2
type: office
client: private
source: commission

photos: Janez Marolt, marolt-photograpy

video: Alessandro Fonte

project team: Aljoša Dekleva, Tina Gregorič, Lea Kovič, Vid Zabel, Naia Sinde