Mayora Head Workplace Canteen / Lex and Architects

Textual content description supplied by the architects. The transient of this mission is to create a constructing that serves as a canteen/cafeteria facility to an current head workplace. It must accommodate over 800 workers members and board of executives individually. The principle idea for this mission is to create an oasis-like construction for the workers to actually take pleasure in their breaks, calm down and benefit from the recent environment inside and across the constructing. We got here up with a moderately natural design to mix in with the huge panorama backyard it sits on and to imitate and praise the curvy principal head workplace.

This constructing consists of two wings, a bigger canteen for the workers and a smaller one on the opposite facet to accommodate the executives. In between there’s a plaza with an island within the center which encompasses a reflecting pool in addition to tall bushes towering as much as the roof’s skylight.

The workers canteen is bigger and options an almost-circular plan of about 40m in diameter. The radial plan is to permit not solely a big area for consuming, but in addition to accommodate all of the 1,000 workers concurrently for occasions and workplace features. A small stage is positioned within the entrance center part, viewable from each a part of this corridor. The double peak ceiling permits a mezzanine flooring for further eating area. The entire construction of this corridor is roofed with stretch of window partitions and within the center, there’s a large skylight, thus creating a light-weight and ethereal environment inside. To ascertain a recent and stress-free really feel to the inside, we choose to make use of synthetic crops and bushes spreading from the bottom flooring, mezzanine flooring as much as the hanging gardens from the ceiling.

Though the outside wall therapies for the entire construction are related (terracotta clad brick facade), the smaller canteen for the executives presents a extra formal and stylish inside design. The inside options extra refined supplies corresponding to marble and porcelain slabs, creative wallpapers and artificial weavings. There are three huge rooms, every can accommodate as much as 12 executives and two rooms might be mixed into an even bigger corridor.

Metal framing and light-weight metal roof sheets had been chosen for the roofing system as a result of it was attainable to taper and curve them in accordance with the design like the form of turtle shell. Aluminum composite panels had been used to complete them off. Metal construction system can be chosen to permit bigger column-free areas for the workers canteen. The window partitions protecting the perimeter of the constructing had been utilized in brief straight sections to permit general curvature form, and elements of them are openable when wanted for further entry or air flow.