Freedom, flexibility, confidentiality

A warehouse hall that becomes a flexible workspace adapted to current uses and work rhythms. A flexible space, where it is above all a question of offering a multitude of possibilities.

With an old storage hall as a starting point, it’s like you were starting from a blank sheet of paper. Imagining a Workspace 4.0 based on an open floor plan of 700 m², a raw space with large bay windows and high ceilings. Humanising an old warehouse by promoting synergies and offering an environment conducive to exchange, collaboration and a form of collective belonging.

My space is your space

The concrete acts as an exposed skin, while the ventilation ducts are the pulsating veins of the building. The corridor leading to this open space for around 70 people has no natural light, but is largely decorated by a succession of XXL images celebrating the artisanal.

Faced with such a large open space, the idea was first to create a central core of rooms that act as a buffer between the work area and the cafeteria. With the exception of a part dedicated to support, three types of spaces were defined.

• The landscaped spaces that benefit from panoramic windows and where each work surface brings together 2 to 4 work places at most
• The collaborative spaces that are positioned between the offices and allow a mix of exchanges
• The meeting spaces themselves, in the centre of the plateau, partitioned by 45 db glass walls so guaranteeing a high level of confidentiality

The technique was left partly visible, as a testimony to the recent past. A cladding of suspended tubes breaks the feeling of height of the rooms in a long undulating wave. Similarly, a wall was inserted lengthways, an interior bay window, in order to separate while maintaining the idea of transparency. Each office block has been made autonomous and semi-invisible by the development of a custom-designed modular unit. The lighting system is dual-purpose. Industrial and functional on one side, warmer and more consensual in the meeting rooms. While the office furniture adopts a range of shades from white to grey, the reception furniture adopts the house colours, pinks and blues more in line with the reference brands.

Everything is transformed

Designed as a flexible space, where people occupy the spaces according to availability and current needs, it is also completely reversible. Namely, if necessary, this office area can be returned to its original state. And to make our own the quote from the chemist and philosopher Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier “Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed”.