Casa Josephine transforms bike workshop into brightly-hued promoting workplace
Design studio Casa Josephine organized yellow, crimson and deep-blue tiles to create the “emphatically geometrical” inside of this promoting workplace in Madrid.
The workplace is located in Madrid’s vigorous Malasana neighbourhood and takes over a former motorcycle-repair workshop.
Photograph by Belen Imaz
Domestically primarily based Casa Josephine was introduced on board to remodel the two-floor constructing right into a workspace for an promoting company.
Its two homeowners wished there to be a mixture of personal and communal areas that encourages communication amongst workers and the simple change of concepts.
“One final situation needed to be met: the spatial design must be versatile sufficient to permit for a possible redefinition of using the completely different sections of the company,” stated the studio.
Photograph by Belen Imaz
The bottom flooring is now a single, lengthy room that runs all the way down to a rear meeting-area, fronted by floor-to-ceiling beige doorways with arched home windows.
At its centre is a shiny jet-black desk surrounded by matching fold-out chairs.
5 spherical pendant-lamps have then been suspended at completely different lengths from the ceiling to kind a V-shape.
Photograph by Belen Imaz
Sunshine-yellow and white cement tiles have been organized on the again wall to kind concentric squares.
Pink, burnt-orange and cobalt-blue tiles have then been inlaid throughout the ground to create various Tetris-like motifs.
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“Flooring, partitions and textiles are emphatically geometrical, whereas the items of furnishings had been designed with a extra subdued persona for distinction,” defined the studio.
The remainder of the bottom flooring accommodates a communal timber desk that has been constructed round a collection of pre-existing iron columns, which the studio freshened up with a coat of white paint.
Ought to workers need further privateness, this space could be closed off by a full-height yellow curtain. Numerous seating poufs and cushioned benches have additionally been dotted all through in order that staff can kind impromptu informal work areas.
A gently sloping counter has additionally been erected alongside a peripheral wall. Black-painted picket stools are slotted beneath, giving workers a spot to perch and work with laptops.
Adjacently lies an off-white block of lockers with vaulted doorways, mimicking the form of these within the assembly room.
At this degree there may be additionally a small kitchen full with terracotta-coloured cabinetry.
Extra workspace lies down within the basement, accessed through a staircase that is been coated completely in yellow tiles. White tiles have additionally been used right here to kind a sequence of window-like rectangular shapes on the wall.
Casa Josephine was based in 2012 and is headed up by Iñigo Aragón and Pablo López Navarro.
It is not the one studio to embrace color for workplace interiors. BoardGrove Architects erected peachy partitions to delineate completely different zones in a Melbourne workplace, whereas MDDM Studio used primary-coloured furnishings to brighten the pale inside of a movie manufacturing HQ in Beijing.
Images is by Iñigo Aragon until said in any other case.