By Carolina A. Miranda – Los Angeles Times
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Do you remember coworking? When self-employed staff and newly created contractors crowd into common workplaces, sharing overheads and essentials, such as printers, toilets and ventilation systems, a concept to save money on genuine workplace and heritage infrastructure. prevent the spread of deadly communicable diseases.
The COVID-19 pandemic has been difficult for business. In the last quarter of 2020, rents in Los Angeles County fell to their lowest point since the Great Recession, with transactions 60% to 70% below normal. This has been devastating, for coworking spaces, which operate on the basis of a maximum turnover rate and an ever-changing visitor base with short-term leases.
As an April market article asked, “Will COVID-19 be the death of coworking spaces?”Well, the answer to how they’re designed.
When Second Home, a London-based coworking company, opened its first place in the United States in Los Angeles in September, its planners could not have imagined they would face a pandemic in a year. But Second Home’s design has allowed the shared area to continue operating at a time when other non-essential work buildings remain closed in Los Angeles County.
Instead of occupying a sealed, monolithic glass work tower, Second Home lives in a switched network center where most workspaces are located in individual studios (there are 60) on a lush lawn that was once a large car park.
“Each study is ventilated; they all have windows that open,” says Rohan Silva, co-founder of Second Home, as he sneaks into the garden. Studios do not have shared elevators or sealed corridors that recycle the same stale air. It’s all outdoors.
“This,” Silva says, “is what architecture looks like after COVID.
If this is the case, the architecture will seem out of this world.
From a distance, studies, designed in a variety of elliptical forms, resemble a hallucinogenic toad organization. Its characteristic color is a stinky pineapple yellow, a tone that looks only on the bright ceilings of the studios, but also as accents on the furniture. Suspensions hanging from the ceiling look like minimalist cocoons. There’s no direct line in sight.
Second Home depicts the manual paintings of a unique mix of architects. The great modernist construction designed by Los Angeles architect Paul R. Williams in 1963 as the former headquarters of the California. La Expansion and Renewal Assistance League, completed last year, were designed through Selgascano, a Madrid company known for both its exuberant designs and attention to environmental issues.
The firm, founded through José Selgas and Luca Cano, in 2015 has become the first Spanish architecture studio to create a pavilion for the Serpentine Galleries in London. For this commission, the architects produced an amorphous design of the colors of the rainbow that resembled a few multicolored flips. Tubular socks: if those tubular socks were created for giant alien beings and built through the fabric in combined ribbons made of translucent commercial polymers. Last year, the pavilion was installed in the tars of La Brea to the delight of the crowd.
Selgascano designed the workspaces of All Moment Home, which have 4 coworking complexes in London and one in Lisbon, the latter is a wild arrangement of offices and biomorphic plants inserted into the bones of a 19th century market. The architects also designed the interiors of Librera, a bookstore that passes through Second Home in London (this appears in the season finale of Michaela Coel’s “I May Destroy You” on HBO).
At the moment, Home’s outpost in Hollywood, the 10-person company sought to create a design that was not only modern and recognizable, but also healthy: cutting skylights in the main two-story construction to bring sunlight to the ground and attract completely new internal air. through the use of open covered passages.
“The dating between architecture and the environment is for our well-being,” says Diego Cano-Lasso, selgascano’s spouse, who divides his time between Los Angeles and Madrid and who led the design of the Hollywood project.
“One of the most productive facets of life in Los Angeles is being able to open a door and be surrounded by nature,” he wrote via email from Spain. “This close date with smart weather, hummingbirds and flowers is lost if you have stairs, elevators or hallways along the way. The purpose of painting in a garden, where it can be internal but where the outside is only in a door.
The assignment also meant the state-of-the-art reuse and preservation of a construction through a prominent Los Angeles architect (a site that was announced as a dismantling when the founders of Second Home fell on the list). Among Williams’ preserved ornaments: Curved staircase leading to the floor for now.
Cano-Lasso said it was vital for him to show respect for Williams’ design. “The spaces are very functional, well proportioned,” he writes, “and very well interdependent around a courtyard that has the center of the campus.
Much of Selgascano’s paintings at Second Home are about surgically rething the service and fabrics of the old building, rather than a energy-intensive hose and reconstruction. Second Home echoes another area designed through Cano-Lasso in Los Angeles: Sam First, near LAX, an undesigned storefront in the middle of hotels and car parks remodeled in an intimate jazz club thanks to the state-of-the-art use of fabrics, in this case, commercial tubes (of the type used in food processing) arranged in a geometric trend along the wall and ceiling in a way that recalls layers of wood.
The purpose of creating something “comfortable and intimate”, cano-Lasso notes, “but also to play and improvise”.
At Second Home, Cano-Lasso left the bones of the Williams building intact while adding ornaments. The area of the old occasion of the main construction has been remodeled into a recessed paint area, its modernized view with butcher plastic curtains and a wild drainage pipe layout in (This area is closed lately due to COVID-19 regulations) The outdoor patio has paintings and an informal meeting area. Parts of the construction were drilled through outdoor corridors. The lawn studios of the old car park are cobs surrounded by thick plantations of drought-resistant plants, which provide shade and a privacy screen.
“If you think you’re healthier,” Silva says, “it ends up being more resilient. “
Even the fabrics selected through Cano-Lasso for tables and desks ended up being an intelligent bet for the era of the new coronavirus: the Corian, a non-porous composite material, is used as a surface in hospitals.
“It’s a very durable, seamless material that allows us to create curved shapes smoothly,” says Cano-Lasso.
Like all other businesses, Second Home had to reorganize to take into account the monetary truth of the pandemic. It has lost some consumers and others have reduced the amount of area they rent. Second Home has also had to expand more flexible prices for small businesses. that would possibly end up operating monthly.
But the opening of the lawn studio architecture has helped the community to have a list of a hundred customers who come with entertainment, generation and structure companies, nonprofits and other collaborators who want an area to meet and work.
“Maybe it’ll force developers to think differently,” Silva says. “Put nature, fitness and well-being at the heart of our considerations and don’t see them as a nuisance. “
Selgascano demonstrates that architectural responses to disorders like the pandemic do not want to be high-tech. With recycled wood, reasonable commercial fabrics and eye masses, not to mention undeniable features, such as windows that open, has created structures that paint in our time and probably in our long run as well.
By Carolina A. Miranda
Los Angeles Times
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