A Post-Pandemic Project: Working, Socializing and Feeling the Comfort of Being Home.

This office of Agency 35 was a metal structure that was already built here They rented this space to be the agency It had only a metal shell made and the upper closures of glass Agency 35 is a relatively new agency They called me when they still had little time left at the agency They called me to do a project within that space they found It had the great advantage of being close to the square What they asked me back then was to think of a space that at first would accommodate few people At that time only eight people were working with them but it could grow and expand One of the proposals we found interesting was to create an internal metal structure here at the agency that can eventually accommodate a second phase of the project The idea is to create a cross-sectional volume of this structure we made and lift it up A meeting room and also create a few more work areas up there At first since they hadn't grown that much yet They built this which we called phase A of the project which on its own already includes especially nowadays post-pandemic With people working in a hybrid model between home office and in-person Perhaps they won't necessarily carry out the second phase But everything is ready for this second phase to eventually be built The process of adapting the property was very interesting because precisely of that geometry we had It was completely irregular with uneven walls there was a need to create a more rigid and more orthogonal structure inside Bring a certain clarity to circulation and distribution of space bring this green and create even more nature-related environments Create meeting spaces What we did as a project premise was to concentrate the enclosed areas Next to the back wall of the property which is a solid wall and leave both side walls which are made of glass Open and integrated into the work environment A advertising agency needs meeting spaces So that people can talk and have briefings and discuss projects these spaces don't need to be seated around a traditional table Then the idea is to also build the entire side balcony this grandstand the spaces the lounges that we have The café itself a space that people use a lot here inside the agency All these spaces are very commonly used and are often used more than the main counter itself So it's possible to create all these usage possibilities within the space I think it was one of the main premises of the project I think that architecture in people's lives is fundamental Often a person feels a sense of well-being She doesn't even realize it but it comes from the architecture And architecture is in the small things the small spaces Not necessarily in big things Anything that has a well-designed architecture It can bring an incredible sense of well-being to every user