The building is a garage, an industrial building with a public building scale. It’s large spaces reinforced by a concrete structure, gives it an industrial and infrastructural character. We would intervene in this by opening two square patios in this structural grid to give light and access to the different levels, as well as opening a perimeter skylight on the street level to give light to the lower underground floor.
We will occupy the building as it occupies public spaces, prolonging artificially the city inside the building, with clearly define the play ground and community spaces. The building is treated as a public space. The city continues inside the walls to allow a permeable and flexible urban space. The spaces for the Playground offices, co-working and campus are clearly defined to allow the plan to function in an organized and effective manner.
The building is still designed to be transparent and visually connected, thus the division mechanisms for the offices will be industrials and large, similar to large curtains or rolling shutters, always following the modulation of the structural grid. The spaces ‘in-between’ the offices are given temporarily to the city. A new event space is left on the lower floor and a public garden/orchard is designed on the terrace. All the public spaces will become covered streets with bars, restaurants and the existing ramp becomes a focal space for relaxation, connection and leisure with bars and event spaces

We want Playground to be able to work both inside and outside, so the enclosure is delayed with respect to the facade plane leaving some domestic garden terrace spaces.