Cano Lasso completes child-friendly department of Second Residence in London Fields

An enormous translucent panel punctuated by round openings fronts the newest department of co-working house Second Residence in east London, which features a nursery and out of doors play space.

The shared workplace has been designed by Madrid-based studio Cano Lasso and takes notice from the work of Frei Otto, a German architect famend for creating tensile buildings draped in see-through membranes.

Second Residence’s co-founder, Rohan Silva, hopes the bizarre facade, which is created from fluorine-based plastic EFTE,  will act as a landmark to younger creatives within the native space.

“Too many buildings have gray facades that deaden the panorama,” he defined to Dezeen.

“We tried to create an exterior setting that can have individuals questioning in saying ‘what is that this place?'”.

Second Residence London Fields is the corporate’s fourth co-working department to open in London.

It joins a base in Spitalfields, which has an out of doors terrace dotted with swimming pools and vegetation, one other in Holland Park, which occupies the previous studio of Richard Rogers, and a 3rd in Clerkenwell that opened in the direction of the top of 2018.

Behind the facade of the London Fields constructing are vibrant interiors additionally designed by Cano Lasso. At floor degree there’s a cafe and seating space with tangerine-coloured flooring and polycarbonate partitions, which shall be open to the general public all through the day.

It leads via to a rear workroom with textured orange partitions and ring-shaped “flying” tables that, utilizing a pulley system, could be hoisted up and saved in round niches within the ceiling.

Upstairs on the primary ground are a sequence of white winding desks separated by low corrugated partitions, the place members can work in a extra quiet, targeted environment. Panels of cork suspended above additionally assist reasonable acoustics.

Ought to members need to work away from a proper desk there are additionally a handful of enclosed pods dressed with cozy mid-century armchairs.

The second and third flooring accommodate studio-style workspaces that may host groups of as much as 40 individuals.

Persevering with the biophilic design of present branches, over 500 leafy vegetation and bushes have been included all through the London Fields department, supposed to foster a more healthy work setting.

There are additionally a lot of glazed portholes within the ground that look via to decrease ranges and spherical home windows within the peripheral partitions which nod to the form of the openings on the facade.

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Sure rooms nonetheless characteristic structural columns left behind from the constructing’s authentic fit-out – previous to being a co-working house it had served as a cinema and dance corridor within the 19th century.

In a bid to change into “essentially the most family-friendly working house within the metropolis”, that is the primary Second Residence to include a nursery.

Designed by Peckham-based structure studio Kennedy Woods, the house is decked out in soothing tones of pale gray and boasts enjoyable options like an indoor slide and house-shaped timber storage items.

Photograph by Taran Wilkhu

There’s additionally a play space on the constructing’s roof terrace, full with a small-scale race monitor and water trough the place kids can splash and play.

“The architects have finished a superb job of designing this constructing with kids in thoughts – in addition to adults. It is an actual step ahead for workspace design,” added Second Residence’s different co-founder, Sam Aldenton.

Photograph by Taran Wilkhu

The launch of Second Residence London Fields comes simply forward of the corporate’s Los Angeles department, which is ready to open in East Hollywood in September this 12 months. It can have campus-style grounds comprised of 60 bright-yellow work pods nestled amongst lush vegetation and bushes.

Different shared workspaces to spring up lately throughout London embody Hammersmith’s Kindred, which is designed to evoke the environment of a cocktail bar, and Kilburn’s The Granville, which is ready inside a former church corridor.

Pictures is by Iwaan Baan until said in any other case.

Venture credit:

Architect: Estudio Cano Lasso
Nursery design: Kennedy Woods
Environmental engineer: Richie & Daffin
Structural engineer: Webb Yates
ETFE designer: Lastra & Zorilla
Prime contractor: EXA S.r.l.