Modular units with a panoramic view

Modular units with a panoramic view

by | Aug 7, 2011

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Modular units with a panoramic view

 

The offices of the Karla Otto Public Relations Agency are placed between large windows with panoramic views over the city of New York, spread over two floors. An open space environment made optimal by the arrangement of modular workstations in a material continuity with the architectural structure.

Project: CLS Architects
Year: 2011
Site: New York

A panoramic view of New York opens from the large windows of these offices located on two floors of a glass and concrete skyscraper. An industrial context with internal finishes in raw concrete and exposed systems, in which the large glass walls perform a double function. On one hand, they lighten the room, dematerializing the separation between inside and outside, on the other hand they provide natural lighting. It is with these premises that the design of the Karla Otto offices takes place according to the project of the architectural studio CLS Architects.

Taking advantage of the large visual opening, the design layout is structured around the arrangement of modular units. Workstations composed of four tables with bookcases and drawers. These are specularly arranged among themselves, according to a cross conformation. The choice of materials is in continuity with the plays of transparencies and luminous reflections created by the large windows. At the same way, the surfaces of shelves and drawers are in polished steel while the dividing elements in darkened mirror glass.

A small self-managed kitchen is available to workers, with light tones that provides additional brightness. The essential lines and the choice of Corian express its contemporaneity. The contrast between the essentiality of the white kitchen with the raw concrete of the walls and floors represents the stylistic signature of this project.

Modular units with a panoramic view

 

The offices of the Karla Otto Public Relations Agency are placed between large windows with panoramic views over the city of New York, spread over two floors. An open space environment made optimal by the arrangement of modular workstations in a material continuity with the architectural structure.

Project: CLS Architects
Year: 2011
Site: New York

Designing the silence of a radio

Designing the silence of a radio

by | Jun 10, 2006

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Designing the silence of a radio


It may sound like an oxymoron, but it is really like that: designing a radio means knowing how to design silence. Recording studios must have impeccable soundproofing being able to isolate themselves from offices and common areas.

Project: Modulor
Year: 2006
Site: Cologno Monzese

Designing soundproofed rooms is certainly a fundamental feature for any interior. Who better can offer a perfect design exercise if not the most listened radio in Italy?! The RTL studios in Cologno Monzese were the perfect opportunity to experiment and acquire the experience in soundproofing the rooms.

Starting of course from the recording studios which da also to deal with an aesthetic aspect. In fact, if the soundproofing materials are often very rough in their aesthetic performance, it is also true that in an extremely technical context such as a recording studio, no lack can be afforded. Here then the recording studio is based on a circular conformation, from whose pivot a false ceiling branches spread on. It incorporates the sound system and the spotlights. For the furnishings, it is certainly the cherry wood to return the right elegant imprint capable of minimizing the sense of alienation. The same wooden essence also recalls the choice of furnishings and sometimes of the office flooring.

The general setting of the common spaces is approaches to the brightness of the rooms, both through large windows, where possible, and through spot lighting. Achieving the maximum expression of brightness and contemporaneity is the piano bar with Corian counter.

Designing the silence of a radio


It may sound like an oxymoron, but it is really like that: designing a radio means knowing how to design silence. Recording studios must have impeccable soundproofing being able to isolate themselves from offices and common areas.

Project: Modulor
Year: 2006
Site: Cologno Monzese