The Small Office
Entrance
Top View from the entrance
50m² space in a Victorian building to be adopted for an office of a package wholesaler. Required working space for a manager and her secretary, meeting room for 4 people, kitchenette and accessible toilet.
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Working spaces
Working spaces divided by stud walls clad with toughened glass. In this office communication between manager and secretary is very important.. Opening the sliding doors merge the working spaces.
Top The secretary ‘ workstation
Kitchen, toilet and wardrobe hidden behind the brick wall
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Entrance / waiting area Secretary's desk Manager's office Meeting room Kitchen annex Accessible toilet Wardrobe
Manager’s office
Top Manager’s office
Below right Section BB, scale 1:100 Bottom Furniture Desks: Meltorp Table by Ikea Chairs: Vitra EA117 aluminium chair by Charles Eames (green) Fritz Hansen Series 7 chair by Arne Jacobsen (red) Shelving: UMS by Fritz Haller and Paul Schärer Tables: Magis Tavolo ZX3 Table
Meeting room / kitchenette
Top Kitchen
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exposed brickwork, painted white (office rooms,) recycled newspapers covering plasterboard cladding (internal walls) Scrapwood wallbaper by Piet Hein Eek flooring: existing oak floor partition walls: thoughened green glass in steel frame
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Bottom Meeting room
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Partition wall detail
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transom - top: 1 2 3
10mm translucent glass sheet fixed to the metal swing bolt fixed to a ceiling beam sealed with silicon transom - base:
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2 metal angles 60x30x10mm screwed to the 60x100x10mm steel profile channel 10mm thick thoughened glass partition wall base:
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skirting - 10mm metal sheet cut to 80mm strips, screwed to the wall 20mm softwood floor - existing 150mm wooden strips