Chinese architecture studio Neri&Hu has designed a flexible office space in Shanghai for the changing needs of media company Red+Plus Studio's employees.
The Shanghai-based studio stripped back the 529-square-metre space, located on the second floor of a factory building within a former industrial campus, by removing numerous layers of previous renovations.
The concrete structure is exposed in the office's central space
The concrete structure of the building was left exposed throughout with a number of columns breaking up a large multi-use space at the centre of the office.
Large steps within this space can be used as seating for presentations with a hidden projector placed in the roof.
The existing skylights were used to light the desks Two stainless-steel structures enclose meeting rooms alongside this main space, while private offices are arranged alongside it.
A room with stainless-steel desks, which is lit by six pre-existing skylights in the sloping roof, stretches along one edge of the room.
"With the strength of the building's original character revealed, any additions to the space were carefully applied in layers that allow what is behind to coexist, inhabiting the liminal space between past and present," explained the studio.
A hidden projector can be lowered to create a screening room
The studio used "nomad" as the design concept, based on the client's request for flexible working spaces.
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