The entrance space of a law firm in Turin has been transformed into a hybrid multifunctional environment: an administrative office but also a place for reception, relax and waiting. The project by PAT. studio looks like an art gallery, using surfaces and volumes to interpret and shape the space in an original way, generating flows and paths that did not exist before, within a 36 square-meter area.
Clients in fact used to be formerly welcomed by nothing but a plain corridor wall, concealing two separate rooms.
A minimal space shaped by pure volumes for an office in Turin
PAT. studio experiments with visual experience and looks to art to renovate the spaces of a law firm deconstructing a rigorous existing layout through solids and color units.
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- Francesca Grillo
- 22 November 2022
- Turin, Italy
- PAT. architetti associati
- 36 sqm
- Welcome/waiting area and back office
- 2021
The studio demolished partitions and inserted a series of lacquered wooden volumes in different colours, radically experimenting with the power of visual experience. The project looks to contemporary art "white cube" spaces, where pure volumes, abstract and material units of colour can be inserted.
The work space is then an art space, where various elements “land”, interacting with environment and light. Inspired by Donald Judd's idea of specific objects, the five volumes serve different functions: a golden solid for the welcome desk, two blue pillars for the servers and coffee corner, a petrol green geometry to hide two back office desks, and a blue angled panel for the printers trace an inedited spatial subdivision.
The ceiling is redefined by three suspended sound-absorbing panels with four low-voltage tracks, equipped with an editable system of LED strips and spotlights. The original wooden floors have been preserved to ensure dialogue and continuity between pre-existing elements and new shapes.
- Specific Objects
- Turin, Italy
- Welcome/waiting area and back office
- PAT. architetti associati
- Andrea Veglia, Nicolò Radicioni
- Studio Legale Dal Piaz
- 36 sqm
- 2021
Axonometry.
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