The Small Office

View from the entrance

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50m² space in a Victorian building to be adopted for an office of a package wholesaler.

Required working space for a manager and her secretary, meeting room for 4 people, kitchenette and accessible toilet.

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Working spaces divided by stud walls clad with toughened glass.

In this office communication between manager and secretary is very important.. Opening the sliding doors merge the working spaces.

Kitchen, toilet and wardrobe hidden behind the brick wall

Entrance / waiting areaSecretary's deskManager's officeMeeting roomKitchen annexAccessible toiletWardrobe

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The secretary ‘ workstationTop

Floor plan, scale 1:100Bottom

Working spaces

Manager’s office

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Section BB, scale 1:100

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Furniture

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Desks:

Meltorp Table by Ikea

Chairs:

Vitra EA117 aluminium chair by Charles Eames (green)

Fritz Hansen Series 7 chair by Arne Jacobsen (red)

Shelving:

UMS by Fritz Haller and Paul Schärer

Tables:

Magis Tavolo ZX3 Table

Manager’s office

Meeting room

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Kitchen

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exposed brickwork, painted white (office rooms,)recycled newspapers covering plasterboard cladding (internal walls)Scrapwood wallbaper by Piet Hein Eek flooring: existing oak floorpartition walls: thoughened green glass in steel frame

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Meeting room / kitchenette

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View from the windows

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Partition wall details

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transom - top:

10mm translucent glass sheet fixed to the metal swing bolt fixed to a ceiling beamsealed with silicon

transom - base:

2 metal angles 60x30x10mm screwed to the 60x100x10mm steel profile channel10mm thick thoughened glass

partition wall base:

skirting - 10mm metal sheet cut to 80mm strips, screwed to the wall 20mm softwoodfloor - existing 150mm wooden strips

Partition wall detail

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