Flexible design

Located in the new Google headquarters, the Store is designed to activate curiosity and educate the public about the company’s hardware offerings and design process. A sinuous, spine-like sculptural installation winds through the space, providing a 120-foot-long continuous interactive display. With a focus on human physiology and interaction, the spine engages the user at multiple heights and scales to promote discovery with drawers to open, informative visual graphics, and 3D interactive displays. Adam Rouse Mark Wickens The Store is a primary hub where people from all over the world can visit, interact with products, and learn more about the company’s design process, ethos, and production methods. The surrounding co... More

IPA - Architecture and more partnered with Bosch to design a Multifunctional Hub within the Synergy tower Sofia. Initially designed as a conference room, the space was reimagined to serve as s dynamic hub for innovation and interaction. Dian Stanchev The hall’s concept centers around the idea of a “living lab”, where visitors are active participants rather than passive observers, engaging directly with the workspace and its technologies. Designed for flexibility, the hall seamlessly adapts to various purposes, from showcasing new ideas to hosting collaborative activities. The hall’s 6.70-meter ceiling height allowed the integration of an intermediate level, supported by a metal structure at level +3.30 m, acce... More

Inspired by the flexibility of traditional Japanese architecture, the new Cybernet Headquarters in Tokyo is a bright and innovative office designed to promote wellness, encourage dialogue, and improve productivity through adaptability and technology.  The design concept has been developed by MBAA and Shukoh in close collaboration with Cybernet's management, carefully embedding the corporate values in the design. Caption The workspace has been optimized with intelligent zoning to eliminate the clutter and enlarge communication and social interaction spaces. Furniture and materials were carefully planned to offer the best environmental quality for the employees and embed the 2020 pandemic’s "social distancing" guidelines. Hig... More

We often need a circulation space or corridor to connect all the required spaces or rooms. However, we do not have the luxury for connecting corridors in this office design. Pixelaw Photography The project is designed to facilitate a flexible working space with required spaces of a gathering area, meeting room, workstations, private room, pantry, design studio and a washroom within a small area of 75 square-meter office for a newly start-up office. The main intervention was to maximize the space efficiency by adding movable panels which are used to divide the space into four main zones. The four main zones are a private room, a workstation or the event area, a meeting area and a pantry. The rest of space is kept remarkably simple, wit... More

Notski is the winning competition entry for a 4660m2 upper-secondary school in Heinola by Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects. Aside from its core focus of learning the school also is to become a social hub for the community – housing civic activities, youth culture and community sports. Flexible learning and activity spaces pivot outwards from a core social space that links all the programmes together. The classrooms themselves, designed with pedagogic experts, are optimised to cater for the different learning situations that the students would find themselves in throughout their school career. Notski sits in the heart of Heinola, a secluded Finnish town of around 20,000 inhabitants, surrounded by a patchwork of islands, lakes and forests... More