ARCHIVES was asked to design three outdoor spaces for an IT company. The premise of the client’s task was to create places for work breaks and social life of the employees at three offices located in different parts of the city. The three given plots were the narrow lawn stripe close to building walls; the paved rectangular courtyard; and the solitary, windy open area in a new office block.
The proposed designs reflect our intention to integrate the ideas of communion, choice, and diversity within a common space. While researching, the discovered Chinese painting gave us the metaphor of a dinner as a narrative, gathering different people around the area with a landscape of edibles and dishes. The spatial ethics of the dining table — both the furniture and the landscape. Resulting all-white pavilions, made of plywood and steel, are the archipelagos of shapes and surfaces, floating over the cartesian city map.