OFFICES
Designing an office building today involves questioning the profound transformation of contemporary work practices. The rise of co-working and the “new way of working” reflects not only an organizational evolution but also a major cultural shift in how individuals gather, collaborate, and produce. Architecture cannot merely accompany these changes; it must offer a structured and enduring spatial interpretation of them.
We consider the office as a spatial system capable of articulating different intensities of use: individual focus, collective exchange, mobility, and representation. The workspace becomes a field of relationships rather than a simple aggregation of desks. The aim is to design environments that can accommodate the variability of practices without losing formal coherence.
Flexibility is central, yet it cannot be reduced to movable furniture or neutral floorplates. It is embedded in the very structure of the building: the structural grid, the depth of spaces, the layout of circulation, and the placement of technical cores. Designing a commercial building means anticipating organizational evolution and enabling future transformations without compromising architectural quality. Reversibility becomes a key condition for long-term durability.
The “new way of working” also calls for a redefinition of the relationship between the individual and their professional environment. We approach this not as a mere matter of comfort, but as a reflection on the atmospheres and temporalities of work.
