TODO Microarchitecture
TODO is an interaction and media design studio based in Turin. TODO recently moved from its original office to a new and larger location in the up-and-coming San Salvario neighborhood. The building where the studio is now located is an excellent example of Turin’s early 1900s architecture, with light streaming through large windows, tall ceilings, and well-preserved original floors, doors, and windows.
The value of the structure called for a subtle interior architecture operation inspired by respect and distance. The most visible part of the project is the new structure in the large entrance — a cubicle, an aquarium, a micro-architecture that stands out in its context and defines a room inside a room.
TODO’s request was to create a space for the admin office: something that would visually welcome clients as well as provide a well-isolated workstation. The project introduced a solution in which desks, partitions, lights, and closets integrate one into the other creating a volume within a volume. The desks rest on a slender, white, steel structure that goes on uninterrupted to the height at which the vault begins, where overhead lighting is installed. The vertical diaphragms both open up and close off the space by alternating milky white glass, yellow transparent glass, and white soft-touch laminate.
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