The places of work that Montreal’s Ivy Studio has designed for digital promoting company Cardigan embody a mesh-wrapped mezzanine and a “futuristic” basement inside a former financial institution constructing.
For Cardigan’s increasing workforce, Ivy Studio has renovated a stone constructing that was constructed as a financial institution in 1907, within the Rosemont space of Montreal.
The construction has had many makes use of, together with most just lately a non secular institution, and boasts loads of historic architectural particulars.
Whereas the higher flooring is a residential condominium, Cardigan occupies 1,250 sq. ft (116 sq. metres) throughout the bottom and basement ranges – areas with very totally different ceiling heights and lightweight circumstances.
“One of many primary challenges of working with the constructing was the contrasting ceiling heights between every flooring,” stated Ivy Studio. “This made the spacial blocking crucial in the beginning of the challenge.”
To profit from the 16.5 foot (5 metres) clearance and abundance of pure gentle, all of the workstations are positioned on the bottom stage.
Nevertheless, the ground plate was not enough to accommodate all 25 workers in addition to assembly rooms, so the studio took benefit of the ceiling top and added a mezzanine.
This addition was positioned in a nook to keep away from blocking the arched home windows, and was painted completely white to intensify the brilliant and ethereal environment of the house.
The construction is comprised of perforated metal mesh, permitting gentle to enter the telephone cubicles and assembly rooms tucked beneath, and a spot was left between the mesh and the glass partitions behind to create space for planters.
Further workstations are situated on high of the mezzanine, which is curved at its nook. “The newly-built mezzanine construction interprets the curves of the present house with out competing with them,” Ivy Studio stated.
To let much more gentle in, the boarded window arches have been reopened to their unique kind, whereas the parquet flooring was changed with pure oak to retain the heat.
In the meantime, within the basement, low ceiling heights and an absence of home windows referred to as for a wholly contrasting technique.
“It’s a totally different universe of its personal,” stated Ivy Studio, which took a “futuristic, in your face” strategy to the sub-grade house.
This stage accommodates the bogs, kitchen, lounge and storage, and options a mixture of plastered ceilings, ceramic partitions and epoxy flooring.
Within the kitchen, the entire surfaces are colored child blue, whereas the adjoining toilet block is totally gray.
Throughout the kitchen island, a round mirror faces a gap that is precisely the identical form and leads right into a room painted in orange.
“The areas are all monochromatic, to extend the visible affect of their intense colours but additionally assist camouflage the imperfections of the present constructing,” stated Ivy Studio.
The workplace’s ranges are linked by two staircases: an older one comprised of wooden and a more recent minimal design that emerges from below an arched portico.
Each are painted navy blue and are supposed to mirror Cardigan’s contradicting “hard-working but playful values”.
Ivy Studio’s portfolio of tasks in its residence metropolis spans from workspaces and eating places, to a spinning studio and a dry cleaners.
Not too long ago accomplished interiors by the agency embody a inventive hub populated with pink and purple parts, and a renovated eatery that was broken in a hearth.
The images is by Alex Lesage.
Venture credit:
Design and structure: Ivy Studio
Building: Group Manovra
