Tech Temple Wangjing
Build 2016
1600m2
220 permanent seats
22 temporary seats
20 people meeting room 1
10 people meeting room 1
6 people meeting room 4
The co-working space is located in an office building in WangJing district in Beijing. It's a refurbishment of an old IT company into a new co-working space. We first had to take of all the partition walls and ceiling as well as structure coverings to return to the primitive states of the architecture and let the maximum natural sunlight get inside the space.
The office space is composed of an adaptable coffee lounge area which can be transformed into a huge event space by opening the glass folding partition, and the actual working space, mostly open but with some separated private offices and different size of sharing meeting rooms.
The main idea was to turn upside down the traditional organization of the office space with meeting rooms in the center and working spaces around it. Instead we tried to used the central area, which is the darkest one, as a focus point, the high-light of the project, articulating all the different functions of the program. With an original bright ceiling enlightening a dense set of vegetation, this tropical garden reverses the perception of the whole space, and makes the central part a comfortable common area.
Vegetation is present in most of the space : along the walls of the lounge area and at the entrance, it filters the light and creates a simple identity for the whole space.