“0 Club” is a co-working space for startups, VCs, and academics specializing in Climate Tech , a technology focused on reducing CO2 emissions or dealing with the effects of global warming, and we designed the interior of it.

Climate Tech is a concept that aims to create a sustainable model for solving climate change while also being a viable economic activity. As a place where people gather to stimulate each other's activities, the office environment should induce communication, while the space itself should be experimental and serve as a new role model for sustainability in design.

Furthermore, an awareness of the problem of balancing technological and cultural development and environmental challenges in the present age, i.e., “I want to make the world a better place” and “Do we really need more?” are two contradictory intentions that coexist, which is probably the condition on which modern manufacturing is premised.

Therefore, we sought a design method to enjoy this contradiction, consider ways to use the restrictions and regulations as triggers for creativity, and embrace the inconvenience.

Under the themes of “sustainability without compromise” and “create without creating as much as possible,” we rethought the restrictions of environmental considerations as a source of inspiration for craft-like care and design, and sought a way to design while enjoying the restrictions, designing according to the following rules.

The existing interior should be reused as much as possible without new construction. For areas where construction is unavoidable, only low-impact, environmentally friendly materials are used. In addition, when making things, it is essential to simplify the production process as much as possible and consider ways to make it easier to recycle or upcycle in the future. Items that can be substituted with furniture should be made as original furniture as much as possible so they can be adapted to changes in the environment. We should reduce the transport of goods and reuse waste materials from the construction as much as possible.

Given that this office is for a community specializing in a specific field, the layout is designed to allow people to walk around the entire facility. Private rooms are arranged in a radial pattern around the central lounge, and nap rooms, phone booths, etc., are dispersed between the private rooms so that they are automatically exposed to information from surrounding areas.