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© Images: Slobodan Spasovski
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GBA Office
The subject of this project is the adaptation of an ex-lawyer office, work that required an interior design that will set the visual identity for a young team of internet advertisers. The office is located in one of the most representative areas in Ljubljana, formed of classicist blocks with 7 m high public ground floor and 4,5 m high upper floors of mixed-use. The office is located on the first floor and the floor plane measures 90 m2 divided into two working spaces of 32 m2 and 25 m2 of common space.
One side of the working space (the whole horizontal end vertical length) is reserved for a cabinet/bookshelf that needed to stay in the position and remain unchanged. Because of this condition, we decided to take the cabinet as a central theme in the adaptation of the new space and at the same time leave the opportunity, after the use, the office to be returned to its original state. So we started playing with the modules of the cabinet that resulted in adding self-supported boxes/niches on different levels and with different use (lounge, kitchenette, library) while the structure of the cabinet remains intact. The surface of the mahogany cabinet we occasionally covered with blackboard stickers that in combination with the niches resulted in 2D and 3D patchwork of the companies colors (red and black) which was part of the branding strategy. In the middle of the two working spaces, we placed office desks, each adequate for four people sharing, working, meeting and collaborating, with the possibility of an upgrade for one more person. The desks are made of simple L shape steel frames painted in black and covered with wooden plates with a red color finish on the top. One desk is leaning on a tree stem with branches and the other on four timber cuts. In avoidance of bi-chromatic experience, the whole experience is supported with multi-functional elements, timber ledges and pictograms that lead you to the different functions of the space. Perforated metal doors of the kitchenette niche, additional frames to change the direction of the doors opening and newsletter wallpapers on the fronts of the desks and on the insides of the library niches became a part of the visual identity of the office. Author: Milan Dinevski
Ljubljana, Slovenia 2014 |
