This project is to reconstruct an office in a high-rise building, the original space is in inadequate streamlined layout with multiple irregular shapes and dead space, and the overall utilization rate is low. The client wants the designers transform his office into a place where his staff can take a breath of nature behind the reinforced concrete walls. To this end, the designers abandoned the idea of traditional cubilces, and instead, they lined desks and bookshelves in curved shape alongside the walls and ceiling and moved the ?forest? into the office, making it an open space with natural vitality.

© Zhang Daqi

Architects: Muxin Design

Location: Shanghai, Shanghai, China

Design Team: Yves Zhang, Leo Sun, Ouyang Boyong, Wang Jie
Area: 111.0 sqm

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Zhang Daqi

From the architect. This project is to reconstruct an office in a high-rise building, the original space is in inadequate streamlined layout with multiple irregular shapes and dead space, and the overall utilization rate is low. The client wants the designers transform his office into a place where his staff can take a breath of nature behind the reinforced concrete walls. To this end, the designers abandoned the idea of traditional cubilces, and instead, they lined desks and bookshelves in curved shape alongside the walls and ceiling and moved the ?forest? into the office, making it an open spa...