DESCRIPTION:Location: Lima, Perú
Type of Office: Architect's Office
Size: 100 square meters
Budget: US $ 15,000
Designer: Alfredo Queirolo Architect
Furniture: Designed and built by the Architect studio.
The ideal office is not the one that let you work, but the one that allows you to have some fun, the one that plays with the artificial light (since the natural light is not always available).
That's why this office parti starts from order all the space from three axes, the x, y and z, displayed from three big "light boxes" that not only define the surrounded space but defines the work spaces and the office itself. This "light boxes" are the "landmarks" of all the office -an architect's studio- and are located following this logic: the red is for the reception since is an alert color. All the furniture around are red too, so the zone remains in the memory of the visitor as his first step. The meeting room is red too, since it is located on the other face of the secretary, the one that leads you there. Suddenly the yellow "light box" appear and it is hiding the employers work station, where all the chairs are yellow. And in this point is when you realize that all the office is black (desktops, chairs structure, walls, columns) in order to highlight the boxes or "containers". Yes, the light boxes are also a "containers" since they kept the main computer hard disk, or the office paper, or the files and other consulting books. But they are all hidden from the sight, to let you know that you're in an architecture's competitions office. That's when you finally arrive to the main office, the one that has no color but wood, in order to difference from the rest. Going out of it you will see the last "container", the blue one, that has inside the cleaning devices, and also the printer and other book related with architecture. That final space is use by all the architects that has to deal with the rules of each country so the competitions will go on within the regulations. That las t "light box" is mute in one of his side but completely open in the side that is not seen by the clients or the visits. The sum of all the containers creates the sensation that the space flows on the upside, so it is unstopped, free, clear, letting you know that the architecture is modern, that the position of each element must speak for itself, creating zone perhaps, but most of all, creating an atmosphere of order without resigning to the fun of the creation.