Malka Architecture

Adyax HQ

Malka Architecture
28. October 2015

PROJECT CREDITS

Architect
Stéphane Malka / Malka Architecture

Type
Bureaux

State
Livré

Year
2015

City
Paris

Client
Adyax

Area
1000m2

Photo: Laurent Garbit / Malka Architecture
Photo: Laurent Garbit / Malka Architecture

An obsolete legacy
Working spaces in their actual form are still built on the same model from the industrial era. They are no longer adapted to new production’s modus operandi, especially thoses related to digitalization. Dematerialization and task’s individualizations combined with the increase of mobile working, the aspiration or the injunction to autonomy, the extension of the company and the emergence of new workplaces ( co-working, wespace, work hubs … ) create phenomenal mutations in tertiary uses.

Photo: Laurent Garbit / Malka Architecture
Photo: Laurent Garbit / Malka Architecture

Towards flexible and modular spaces
The digital fields stretches new prospects, new fields of explorations to anticipate in these new professional areas. To do so, we’ve developped various flexible uses, space modularity but also material and objects hijacking throught the whole project.

We’ve also created new dispositions and alternatives workspaces. The systematic use of laptops allows a true mobility within the company. Thus places with various spatial and chromatic characteristics, a varied range of different atmospheres conducive to common spaces, collective or individual isolation.

Photo: Laurent Garbit / Malka Architecture
Photo: Laurent Garbit / Malka Architecture

Distorting scales related uses
In order to promote generous places for informal exchanges, meeting scenes, different types of reunions and public réception we’ve work on distorting scales.

PVC-made sliding walls are creating a microarchitecture partition – with a thermal  and acoustic insulation – that structure the space and allows to connect or separate working spaces in a few seconds.

The abstract colorful touches bring a strong identity and a playful touch to the spaces.
The central space, as a nave church, invites to meditate on the essence of the emptiness as in the drawn spaces of a cathedral.

It also focus the eye in the center of the nave church, thus on the side, down the passage flow and lights variations may the designers enjoy the much needed calm.

Photo: Laurent Garbit / Malka Architecture
Photo: Laurent Garbit / Malka Architecture

The Blue Gold
The anamorphosis creates Matrix Cubes that are anchored to the hall’s columns, halfway between abstraction and spatial reality. It’s an invitation to contemplation, a golden window on a blue ocean, deeply rooted in the company’s DNA, yet open towards other places.

Photo: Laurent Garbit / Malka Architecture
Photo: Laurent Garbit / Malka Architecture
Photo: Laurent Garbit / Malka Architecture

PROJECT CREDITS

Architect
Stéphane Malka / Malka Architecture

Type
Bureaux

State
Livré

Year
2015

City
Paris

Client
Adyax

Area
1000m2

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