Cowork Greenhouse

Cowork Greenhouse 

F5 Proyectos y Arquitectura

Cowork Greenhouse
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LEAD ARCHITECTS
Juan Tomás Ortega García, Jorge Alonso Nicieza , Nacho Cabal Palicio

ENGINEERING
Igor Blanco Reyero

MANUFACTURERS
Forma 5, Normalit, Vives Ceramica

YEAR
2021

LOCATION
Oviedo, Spain

CATEGORY
Detail, Cowork Interiors

Cowork Greenhouse
© Iván Morán García-Rendueles

Our world today is undeniably digital; information access, and the speed of transformation, besides people & processes synergy, have a deep impact on traditional workspaces.

That’s why we deeply believe that integrated and collaborative, as well as horizontal and cross-generational, formulas are necessary. Those will ease work environment experiences.

Cowork Greenhouse
© Iván Morán García-Rendueles
Cowork Greenhouse
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From ancient times -more precisely Tiberius’ reign- greenhouses carry out, as architectural spaces, wishes of innovation and investigation in the production process.

Their large glass & metal vaulted structures opened up to the crowd as amusement and meeting points in the nineteenth century.

Cowork Greenhouse
© Iván Morán García-Rendueles
Cowork Greenhouse
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Both concepts came together at an abandoned car garage in Oviedo city center. That was the chance to imagine a new frame for our occupation, architecture.

Jointly with the field, diverse professionals and citizen initiatives make possible a dynamic and sustainable habitat, where socio-cultural and work interrelationships become true.

Cowork Greenhouse
© Iván Morán García-Rendueles
Cowork Greenhouse
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We split up the floor in three; the first one, closer to the street, was designed as meeting rooms and workplaces. The second one, with toilets and a little kitchen at the core, offers an open space where an exhibition can occur while having a coffee beside it.And the last one, just under the vault -where the old car garage used to be light and time create a suitable reading space, the perfect spot to be lost in thought.

An ideal flexible working room.Working tables are spread around, with a recording studio and a library placed on a loft on the back. This one works as well as a restroom or an iconic setting to play music.

Cowork Greenhouse
© Luis Díaz Díaz
Cowork Greenhouse
© Luis Díaz Díaz

Parallel to the budget, we proposed to use the least number of materials that, creating a warm and pleasant environment, would give all the prominence to the activity and the users.

The palette was reduced to 5, the concrete of the flooring as a reminder of the industrial past of the workshop, the fir wood in divisions and furniture that allows a warm touch of the surfaces, the glass as a strategy of cohesion and transparency, and light and green of natural plants as a factor of identity and source of energy.

Cowork Greenhouse
© Luis Díaz Díaz
Cowork Greenhouse
© Luis Díaz Díaz

The result is an illusion, the most significant engine of economic and human activity we can feed.

Cowork Greenhouse
© Luis Díaz Díaz
Cowork Greenhouse
© Luis Díaz Díaz


Cowork Greenhouse
© Iván Morán García-Rendueles
Cowork Greenhouse
© Iván Morán García-Rendueles
Cowork Greenhouse
© Iván Morán García-Rendueles


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