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微办公空间9.639

 

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生活在“空间”相对昂贵的北京,一直在研究如何将多种功能集成合并,实现空间利用率最大化。曾为小住房做过一个集储物、沙发、电脑桌于一体的大家具,也专门为建筑师定制过功能集合的可变工作台。

将这个理念延用到办公空间,是偶然也是必然。客户是图文印刷业的经营者,越来越数字化使得实物纸张印量锐减,有意在现有办公空间内分割小区域拓展设计部门,将单一的“印刷”往“印刷+设计”转变。新空间要精小,要区别现有空间,无法判断未来发展状况,要可空间还原。

 

功能集成&可变空间

通过对场地限定的观察,将新增设计空间定于一个靠墙的边角空间。结合打印+设计办公特点,顾客需要密切和设计师当面沟通,将最小的办公工位设为可并坐两人以便于基本交流。模数定为1.53m长0.9m宽,得到面积为1.377平方米的最小单元模块,在这个模块中,实现办公基本功能:座、桌、柜、灯、插座..等等,将这些不同的功能需求按照一定的空间分布,依次安置于上、下、侧。高度遵照合理的人体工程学要求。

尽可能在单一空间内进行多重功能的空间可转化,让有限的空间得到无限的使用可能:办公、会议、讲演、展示..。可变的构造技术采用“X”变形原理和液压杆的结合,下部桌面、坐面可完全升起、收平,极限可升高1.2m,平可为地、低可为坐、高可为桌,上部柜体可伸缩开合,可收纳办公用品。模块与模块之间可无缝连接,前后平台升降配合,可以进行“桌”、“凳”的转换,高低有序排列可变成小型阶梯会议。

 

外结构内围护

为了空间建造尽量不影响现有办公,而且满足发展不利可空间还原的诉求。最好的办法就是结构可以自稳定,不需要与外界安装固定,避免现场装修。这样可随时移动或挪走,也满足于在工厂完全加工好,搬运到现场放置好、接电即可使用。

常规建筑状态一般要有外表皮将结构围护起来,这个微型建构选择将结构体外置。桌台功能体围合于内,保证了内外界面的连续性,外部结构体直接裸露也有效的避免包裹,节省不必要的制作费用,同时达到结实耐用、方便检修、便于清理。

金属结构在外,木围护在内的,外界面采用玻璃,透明开敞。剖面形成C形的空间形态,具有完整的、温暖的内部空间品质。材料元素之间的关系清晰,对于预制、安装、搬运都很便利,具备不错的产品特质。

 

微办公空间

9.639平米,这是比一间普通卧室还小的面积数。它也可以是:12个工位的办公桌台,18人的会议室,28人观看的小型展厅;集成了办公、会议、交流、展示、电路、灯光、储物需求。同时也可是一个微型展览空间,一个阶梯沙龙交流空间;它是一个小建筑、一个大家具、一个大电器。

它并不一定是结果,更多是针对大城市问题进行的一种空间实验和探索。

 

设计人:罗宇杰 卢焯健 

委托方:北京千百画数码快印有限公司

地址:北京市朝阳区花家地1号楼中部2层,北京市朝阳区何各庄318艺术园东区5排2号

面积:9.639平方米

摄影师:金伟琦  张胜彬

设计时间:2017年3月

完工时间:2018年9月

9.639 — A Micro Office

LUO studio designed a tiny office for a graphics printing company in Beijing, which merely occupies 9.639 square meters.

Background

Based in Beijing, where "space" is relatively expensive, the chief designer Luo Yujie has been studying how to integrate multiple functions to maximize the utilization of space. For instance, he once designed a piece of large furniture that combined the functions of storage, sofa and computer desk in his small residence, and customized a variable and versatile work desk for architects. 

Similar design concept was applied to this project too, which was accidental yet very necessary. Since digitalization has led to the sharp decrease in paper printing volume, the client, a service provider engaged in graphics printing industry, intended to separate a small office in its existing workspace, so as to establish a design department and transform its single printing service into a "printing + design" mode. The newly-designed office was expected to be fine and tiny, distinguished from the existing workspace, adaptive to future changes, and able to return to the original spatial state.

Integration of Functions & Changeable Space

Based on site conditions, LUO studio chose to create the new office in a corner. Considering that the "printing + design" service mode requires face-to-face communication between customers and graphic designers, the smallest work station can accommodate two people sitting together for interaction. The micro office is composed of several minimal modular units, which are 1.53 m, 0.9 m and 1.377 m2 in length, width and area. Each unit integrates the basic supportive elements for working, including seat, desk, cabinet, lamp, socket, etc., which are set at reasonable heights on the upper area, bottom and the sides, conforming to ergonomic requirements.

LUO studio tried to endow the single limited space with multiple and transformable functions, so as to obtain infinite usage possibilities in it, such as for working, meeting, presentation, and display, etc. To make the space variable, flexible X-shaped structures and hydraulic rods are perfectly combined. The desk and sitting surfaces can be raised (up to 1.2 m) and leveled, which function as not only desks and seats but also floorings. The cabinets in the upper area, serving for office supplies storage, can be opened and closed by stretching out and drawing back. All modular units are interconnected seamlessly. And adjacent modules can be lifted and lowered alternately as well as converted between desk and stool. When arranged in an ascending order of height, the modular units together form a little meeting room.   

External Structure & Internal Enclosure

In order to avoid disturbing the employees working in the existing office during construction and allow restoring the space to its original state in case the client's new service mode doesn't go well, LUO studio made the interior structures self-stabilized. In this way, all those structures didn't need to be fixed with other installations, hence avoiding on-site decoration. Processed in the factory and then carried to the site and placed in specific positions, the interior structures can be operated after being powered up and can be easily moved or removed at any time.  

As opposed to common architectures that have a exterior skin to enclose the framework, this micro office exposes its structures. The functional structures of desks can be seen clearly from the outside, which ensures the continuity of internal and external interfaces. The exterior structure was exposed, making it solid, durable and easy for maintenance. What's more, unnecessary manufacturing costs were saved.

The external metal structure and the warm wooden interior contrast and integrate with each other, and the glass exterior makes the space transparent and open. Remarkably, the section forms a C-shaped spatial pattern. The material palette, mainly consisting of wood, metal and glass, is simplistic and clear, which is helpful to prefabrication, installation and moving.

 

Micro Office

9.639 m2, is less than the area of an ordinary bedroom. However, such a limited area can be an office equipped with 12 work stations, a meeting room for 18 people, a small exhibition room that accommodates 28 people, and a salon space featuring a stairs-like structure. Satisfying the demands of working, conference, interaction, display, circuit, lighting and storage, it can also be deemed as a diminutive architecture, a piece of huge furniture and a large electric appliance.

However, from the point of view of LUO studio, it's more a spatial experiment and exploration focusing on urban problems.

 

 

Designers: Luo Yujie, Lu Zhuojian

Client: Beijing Qian Bai Hua Digital Printing Co., Ltd.

Locations: 2F, Building 1, Huajiadi Community, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China / No. 2, Row 5, East Zone, 318 International Art Village, Hegezhuang, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China

Area: 9.639 m2

Photos: Jin Weiqi, Zhang Shengbin

Design time: March 2017

Completion time: September 2018

 

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