The Opportunity Agenda is a non-profit organization and social communication lab that needed to relocate to a new space within its Soho office building. We worked closely with them to understand their needs which included increased privacy for staff, and using existing furnishings to help manage costs and schedule.
Our response was to design a space with varying degrees of visual and acoustical privacy while preserving the ample daylight that comes through the office's south-facing windows.
We designed three types of workspaces: Open, semi-private, and private office. In the open office, low partitions between workstations increase visual privacy, and their translucent acrylic screens diffuse daylight and extends luminosity into the entire furthest parts of the space. Semi-private office spaces are distributed along the southern exterior wall and divided with tall partitions, and the single director's office was fully enclosed.
A large conference room is at the center and its large glass barn doors allow natural light, visibility, and acoustic isolation.
Construction: T.R. Fox Contracting
Photography: Aislinn Weidele www.gothamprojects.com