Context
Renovation of shared spaces in a high-density office tower hosting over 2,500 people. The project focused on redefining collective spaces within a vertical workplace environment. 

Design strategy
Use of volume, light, and spatial sequencing to slow down movement, encourage informal encounters, and reintroduce non-productive time into the workday. 

Spatial investigation

• Redesign of the lobby as a symbolic and experiential threshold  

• Monumental staircase conceived as both circulation and social device 

• Library as an intermediate decompression space between work floors and the restaurant 

• Restaurant and garden as collective infrastructures within a dense vertical environment 

Research questions

• How can architectural thresholds mediate transitions between work, rest, and social life?

• How can circulation spaces become places of pause and interaction?

• Can shared interior spaces counteract alienation in corporate architecture?

Outcomes

• Renovated lobby,  desk and lighting design 

• New circulation and new access to the restaurant 

• Renovated restaurant and outdoor spaces 

• Creation of informal social and pause areas - monumental stairs and library 

• Improved spatial legibility and collective use