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A surprising office with a private patio, home of Solo Arquitetos in Curitiba's Downtown.
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For every company, moving to a new office is always an opportunity to rethink not only the workspace itself, but also the company's culture, processes and even its branding. For us, it was no different.
After five years in our old office, and seven years since foundation, we decided it was time to move to a new space. A space aligned with our current architectural production, capable of embracing the company's growth in the coming years, and that could offer more comfort to our team and customers.
The choice of the new office was very simple when we came across a commercial room open to a small private patio in Curitiba’s Downtown. Contact with an outside area has always been a constant in our offices, and this time would be no different - especially after the period of seclusion that marked the beginning of this decade.
After that, the main challenge was to pratically solve the office plan. The square-shaped room, with a large pillar displaced on its facade, made it difficult to insert all the spaces we needed. The initial program included: reception, kitchen, private meeting room and the workspace - all that with plenty of storage area for all the samples and documents of an architectural firm.
Therefore, our option was to merge reception and pantry in a single space, isolating the meeting room in the inner corner of the plan, and concentrating the entire work area next to the glass facade. By doing that, all spaces benefit to some extent from the natural light and the look of the garden that we’ve created in the patio, bringing the green of the plants to the composition of the project's materials.
These two major areas, reception and work, were also defined by a change in ceiling height, created through the elevated-floor next to the entrance to the room (building standard) and a lowered drywall ceiling in the same region. Thus, creating a more intimate space for receiving customers and suppliers, which is also marked by the engineered parquetry made of Cumaru wood. Together with a more expressive and relaxed area for the development of new projects, marked by the exposed upper slab and the cladding in black pigmented concrete slats on the pillar.
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Para qualquer empresa, mudar de sede é sempre uma oportunidade para repensar não só o espaço de trabalho em si, mas também a cultura da empresa, seus processos e até seu posicionamento de mercado. E para nós, não foi diferente.
Após cinco anos em nosso antigo escritório, e sete anos de mercado, decidimos que era hora de mudar para um novo espaço. Um espaço mais alinhado com a produção atual do escritório, capaz de abraçar o crescimento da empresa nos próximos anos, e que oferecesse mais conforto para nosso time e nossos clientes.
A escolha do novo escritório foi até simples quando nos deparamos com uma sala comercial aberta para um pequeno pátio privativo no Centro de Curitiba. O contato com uma área externa sempre foi uma constante em nossos escritórios, e dessa vez não seria diferente, ainda mais depois de um período de reclusão que marcou o início da década.
Sendo assim, o principal desafio foi resolver a planta do escritório. A base quase quadrada, com um grande pilar deslocado na sua fachada, dificultava a inserção de todos os espaços que gostaríamos. O programa inicial previa: recepção, copa, sala de reuniões fechada e workspace - tudo isso com bastante área de armazenamento para todas as amostras e documentos de um escritório de arquitetura.
Nossa opção foi, então, por aglutinar recepção e copa em um único espaço, isolando a sala de reuniões na esquina interna da planta, e concentrando todo a área de trabalho junto a fachada de vidro. Dessa forma todos os espaços se beneficiam em alguma instância da luz natural e da visual do jardim que criamos no pátio, trazendo o verde das plantas para a composição de materiais do projeto.
As duas áreas, de recepção e de trabalho, foram definidas também por uma mudança de pé-direito, criada através do piso elevado junto a entrada da sala (padrão do edifício) e de um forro rebaixado na mesma região. Assim, criando uma área mais intimista para o acolhimento dos clientes, marcada sobretudo pelo piso estruturado de madeira de Cumaru. E uma área mais expansiva e descontraída para o desenvolvimento de novos projetos, com a laje superior aparente e o revestimento em ripas de concreto pigmentado preto no pilar.
What was the brief?
After five years in our old office, and seven years since foundation, we decided it was time to move to a new space. A space aligned with our current architectural production, capable of embracing the company's growth in the coming years, and that could offer more comfort to our team and customers.
What were the key challenges?
The main challenge was to solve the office plan. The square-shaped room, with a large pillar displaced on its facade, made it difficult to insert all the spaces we needed. The initial program included: reception, kitchen, private meeting room and the workspace - all that with plenty of storage area for all the samples and documents of an architectural firm.
What were the solutions?
Our option was to merge reception and pantry in a single space, isolating the meeting room in the inner corner of the plan, and concentrating the entire work area next to the glass facade. By doing that, all spaces benefit to some extent from the natural light and the look of the garden that we’ve created in the patio, bringing the green of the plants to the composition of the project's materials.
These two major areas, reception and work, were also defined by a change in ceiling height, created through the elevated-floor next to the entrance to the room (building standard) and a lowered drywall ceiling in the same region. Thus, creating a more intimate space for receiving customers and suppliers, which is also marked by the engineered parquetry made of Cumaru wood. Together with a more expressive and relaxed area for the development of new projects, marked by the exposed upper slab and the cladding in black pigmented concrete slats on the pillar.
Project size | 85 m2 |
Completion date | 2022 |
Building levels | 1 |
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Solo Arquitetos |