This concept design office for a creative media agency in Los Angeles, by California-based Edward Ogosta Architecture, features “a menagerie of typological hybrids, which together engender a unique interior world”. Existing somewhere between furniture and architecture, these additions to the existing concrete warehouse form a playful workspace; for example you can sit in a chair likened to a hollowed out tree trunk, or work at a desk that becomes a room in it’s own right. The architecture of the interior space is both internalised and externalised at the same time, rethinking how occupiers use commercial space; employees can collectively group together in the auditorium doubling up as book storage, or they can individually hide away behind a curtain at a ‘desk’, which is really more like a bed. In a broader sense, workplaces in general have, in recent years, been undergoing transformations in a bid to make them more accessible and friendly, seen in the recent Google Campus or indeed the Google Office by Scott Brownrigg Architects from last year. Certainly a rethinking of how we use work environments needs to be considered, and hopefully to change work spaces from bland, manufactured office desks and depressing grey carpets, to stimulating interiors that foster creative intensity through the use of vibrant props and idiosyncratic furniture, and this is where I think this project can be successful.
