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Unified Field Office
New York, New York
Hariri & Hariri, Inc.
A multimedia company’s mission inspired
a transparent and flexible design
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This 5,000-square-foot space in New York
City’s Silicon Alley has been designed mostly as a large,
open studio space to accommodate the needs of this growing
software, multimedia designers. The client’s mission—translating
data into information and information into insight—became
the inspiration for the project.
Three curvilinear workstations, composed
to define three distinct but interrelated areas for the designers,
programmers, and development group, are the main architectural
element. These workstations are constructed with aluminum
and acrylic sheets and act both as a filter for light and
a veil, providing privacy and revealing only shadows of what
is behind. This play of light and shadow, concave and convex,
inside and outside, actual and virtual, is on display through
out the entire space creating a dynamic and inspiring work
environment.
A rectilinear reception desk with sliding
panels displaying the office’s products greets the visitors
upon entering. A translucent sculptural wall on one end begins
the composition of the workstations and the translucent sliding
panels on the other end reveal a conference/multi-media room
and a lounge behind.
All mechanical ducts and wiring cable
trays are exposed in a centralized spine stretching north
to south, connecting the work area to the meeting rooms. The
client’s belief that communication isn’t static
in our quickly changing world, and the need for flexible systems
that are as practical as well as dynamic, was the mission
of this architecture.
Formal name
of Project:
Unified Field Office
Location:
New York City
Gross square
footage:
5,000 sq. ft.
Architect:
Hariri & Hariri, Inc.
18 E 12 Street
New York, NY .10003
212-727-0338 Tel,
212-727-0479 Fax
haririandhariri.com
From left to right:
Mojgan Hariri & Gisue Harir
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