154-square-foot office pod stands out in a good way
The coolest ?shoffice? we?ve seen yet For some companies, an office is merely a vessel for getting stuff done. For others, it?s a showcase and calling card for their craft. When Knowhow Shop, a design and fabrication studio out of Los Angeles, started thinking about its new office, it immediately knew the space should be a test bed for some of the studio?s more radical ideas and materials.
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The designers came up with the Lighthouse, an angular bunker of a building constructed out of lightweight prefabricated panels. From certain angles, Lighthouse looks a little like a geodesic dome gone wrong?and we mean that in the best way possible.
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Knowhow Shop founders, Kagan Taylor and Justin Rice, designed the space to be deliberately experimental. ?This is not a project that we would have been able to hand off to a contractor to execute, so we bypassed the normal methods of architectural production, and relied on the most experimental potential of our design/build model,? they said.
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And indeed, the 154-square-foot space, built with an estimated construction cost of $50,000, is full of unexpected design choices. Taylor and Rice designed a custom door whose quadrangle shape has no right angles. When open, the door leaves gaps at both sides, creating a pleasant indoor-outdoor vibe. Likewise, the windows and skylight have unusual shapes, with the latt...
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