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Small Office
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Shannon Pringle
Shannon Pringle Interior Designer at Bernardon
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Tetsuya Matsumoto
Tetsuya Matsumoto Head Architect at KTX archiLAB
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Judith Haase
Judith Haase Architect at Gonzalez Haase AAS
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Jelle Sapulete
Jelle Sapulete Design Director at Adidas
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Royce Epstein
Royce Epstein Design Director at Mohawk Group
Would like to see this project in d...
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Florian Seidl
Florian Seidl Design Manager at Lavazza
I think the idea of dividing the bi...
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Simona Franci
Simona Franci Principal and Design Director at Fortebis
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Justin Bridgland
Justin Bridgland Founding Partner at More Design Office
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Matteo Renna
Matteo Renna Founder at matteorenna | studio
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Julie Payette
Julie Payette Cofounder and Partner at v2com newswire
Like the cube idea using flexible s...
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Jaycee Chui
Jaycee Chui Founding partner at More design office
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alberto caiola
alberto caiola Design Director at Alberto Caiola Studio
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P.C.Ee
P.C.Ee Editor & Creative Director at industry+
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Nic Lee
Nic Lee Design Director at Waterfrom Design Co., Ltd
the box is dancing...
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Client
anonymous: Start-up for Urban Mobility
Floor area
350 ㎡
Completion
2020
architect
Simon Kassner
architect
Wilko Hoffmann
intern
Ashutosh Sharma
junior architect
Frieder Vogler
photographer

Mixed use space for office, presentation and e-bike workshop. In a loft-space in a former factory building in Berlin; a new headquarters has been established for a start-up company that consults agencies, municipal governments, public transportation providers, and housing cooperatives approach to economic and social trends of urban mobility in their own city and neighborhood planning. The company’s innovative approach with an eye to the future was to be expressed in the implementation of interior design for the new office space. Various functions like fixed work spaces, a showroom that can also be used for events, a small café and a bike workshop for assembling E bikes should be spatially separated, but also be available to be experienced as a whole. Instead of thus separating surfaces according to a fixed spatial plan, an open, flowing spatial concept was developed. The architects’ goal was to make the retain the generous impression of the factory floor and to allow for flexible spatial construction. Cubes of various sizes and functions house a kitchenette, a conference area, a meeting room, sanitary units, and storage. By way of their arrangement in the middle of the space, they divide the loft into a front, public area with zones of presentation and interaction and a rear, semipublic realm with workspaces and a workshop for the montage of E-bikes. The cubes are piled up and arranged in such a fashion that the architectural separation of the two areas remains permeable. A stairway cut into a cube allows visitors to change their perspective and leads to a second level, a place designed for concentration with an overview of the entire area. The construction in wooden materials as a sustainable building material harmonizes with the company’s sustainable ecological approach and makes it possible to react flexibly to changes and growth in the company.