Terraced Workplace

A workplace section that behaves like a street

Field: Workplace
Setting: Urban corner site
Scale: Study of a mid-rise, stepped section
Status: Design research

Open-plan workplace interior with exposed ceiling services and daylight

Reference imagery: licensed photography of the built environment, not studio work

Statement

Floorplates step back in section so that every level has an outdoor room. The stair is the main circulation route and the lift the exception, a deliberate inversion intended to make movement between teams visible and casual.

01. Section

Each floor gives up roughly a fifth of its area to the terrace above it. The loss is real and is the point: the stepped profile shortens the distance daylight has to travel into the plan and gives every team a piece of outside within thirty paces.

Interior with large glazed opening onto a planted terrace — Terraced Workplace, section

02. Servicing

Services run in an exposed zone below the slab, arranged in a legible orthogonal grid rather than hidden above a ceiling. Fit-out changes become a matter of reconnection instead of demolition.

Stair rising through a double-height interior volume — Terraced Workplace, servicing

03. Edge

The corner is chamfered at ground level to widen the pavement and hold a covered public edge. The building's only generous gesture toward itself is at the top; everything at street level is given away.