Accesolab
is a company with 20 years of experience commercializing sophisticated
equipment for research laboratories. For the design of their new corporate
offices in Santa Fe –a mayor business area in Mexico City- they team
worked with usoarquitectura to develop a project to outstand their leadership.
A
very simple architectonic program, adapted to the space characteristics, was
set out in a 1,000 sq m area. The confidence of the clients in the project was
transformed in a central square area for the operative zone with the private
offices located close to the facades with windows.
The
services section works like a screen to increase the privacy of the direction
area, this section contains the assistants, site and storage areas. Next to the
building elevators, the visitor’s areas were located: training, showroom,
meeting and reception halls, resulting in a functional and flexible space with
a vitality contagious atmosphere.
For
the color palette 14 different shades of gray –both cold and warm- were
selected and combined with accents in cadmium yellow, silver and white. Any
suspicion caused by the selection of gray, as the central element of the
palette, was minimized with the lineal pattern chosen for the carpets that elegantly
combines with the woodwork in American oak colored in rat gray and plastic
laminates in both gray and white.
The
circle in this project is closed with the lighting design. Different
temperatures of lamps were used to enhance the gray color palette. In the
operative area apparent installations were used. Suspended lamps –with direct
light- arranged in a linear pattern frame the random galleries that indicate
the evacuation routes and add a different personality to the typical front of
private offices.
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