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Spain's Selgascano architects built themselves an awesome office in the woods
One of the perks of being an architecture firm such as Spain's Selgascano is that you get to design yourself an awesome place to work. Check out Selgascano's "office in the woods," designed by the company's Jose Selgas and Lucia Cano. It's one long, tunnel-like office covered by a curved transparent acrylic window that's 20 millimeters thick and lets in plenty of natural light. The 110-millimeter-thick opaque wall is made from layers of insulated fiberglass and polyester, and shades the office.
To keep things inside cool, one of the ends of the office is attached to a pulley system and the slab can be raised or lowered, letting in some fresh air. Explore more of the office in the woods below, thanks to the gorgeous photography of Iwan Baan.
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Selgascano, via Dezeen
Photography by Iwan Baan
By JC at 8:04 PM ON 06/12/09
Can it survive a nuclear blast?
By Thrishmal at 12:20 AM ON 06/13/09
I can totally picture this thing in a zombie movie/game with a small group of people trapped in the building with hundreds of zombies on the outside, pounding on the glass.
By arb at 7:15 AM ON 06/13/09
Photos like this (abuse of wideangle an perspective correction) make me suspect of attempting to correct a weak design hiring a good photographer.
I would like to give them a second chance, but decoding the phoyos I guess their merit is limited to produce a very nice version of a garage/basement studio.
By yaos at 12:20 PM ON 06/13/09
This reminds me of The Upright Citizens' Brigade where an architect firm designed their building to look exactly like a forest.
By izzy at 2:16 PM ON 06/14/09
Im guessing they didnt think too much about the natural enviorment such as weather, or even natural habitats like the animals nearby. It would be kinda creepy to be sitting down at your desk seeing a giant spider walking up the glass.
By Hired Mind at 11:30 PM ON 06/14/09
NOT for claustrophobic people!
Also I question the fire-safety of this building...
By cericole at 4:47 PM ON 06/15/09
Hey where's the bathroom?
By namelessme at 11:13 AM ON 06/17/09
Beautiful. I would even live in such a structure. But the glass should have polorized UV guard to prevent damaging UVA/UVB rays from penetrating.
By stroke at 10:55 AM ON 06/18/09
I would think this would "grow" old fairly quick. It wouldn't take long before the people inside would start studying every leaf and twig as a way to offset the boredom.
By pepepaco at 2:52 PM ON 06/18/09
the most i can get like this is to put the Autumn background for my PC.
By pepepaco at 2:56 PM ON 06/18/09
the most i can get like this is to put the Autumn background for my PC.
By AngryJonny at 5:50 PM ON 06/21/09
Nice idea at first, but after studying those photos, I think I'd go berserk within a couple days of working in there.
By starky at 11:22 AM ON 11/19/09
What a bunch of critizicing losers. I think it is a great design enviromental-wise and probably a great place to work and being creative. I'd love to work there. Go back to your bunkers.
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