ONE WORKPLACE   من اصل3 3

A new garage door creates a seamless transition between   indoor and
outdoor working space   One Workplace is a family-owned and   family-
run  company with three generations having worked in the company. The
family has a strong Italian heritage and it was very important to celebrate
the familial and communal quality of the project. During initial
conversations, concepts of the kitchen as the family hub and the dining
table as key elements kept emerging. As such, Design Blitz used the kitchen
as an opportunity to   bring   all users together and as the
program   matic   connection between the two buildings. Quite literally, the
office meets in the middle. Upon entering the building you are immediately
presented with the work-cafe. It is an area to meet and eat. Leading with
this hospitality function ensures that customers and users encounter a warm
and welcoming space. During initial conversations with the One Workplace
team, Blitz   began   mapping both the client and user experiences through the
space. These mapping diagrams created the conceptual basis for the rest of
the architectural interventions. The mapped experiences demonstrated that
both customers and users would be sent out into the space to experiences a
series of carefully planned touch points and then brought back to their
starting point- much like the path taken   By   a boomerang. The boomerang
further manifested itself in the creation of the   two-story   stacked
‘boomerang’ in the center of the open office space. The elevated
conference room and observation platform allows members of the One
Workplace team to quickly survey the floor and show customers how a
variety of systems solutions can intermix to create a unified, flexible   and
layered approach to workplace layout   An  existing smoke stack and fire door
were salvaged for reuse in the new Design Lab