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架构师提供的文本描述。一家银行并不是设计师通常会建议他们最大胆的颜色选择的客户，但旧金山资本一号实验室的创意团队是个例外。该集团开发的应用程序，以方便和有效的界面，资本一号的在线客户，希望他们的空间，以反映广泛开放的精神，他们的团队。CapitalOne实验室本质上是一个设计工作室，在那里工作的人希望它看起来像一个工作室。他们不想把它涂在银行家的灰色里。

Text description provided by the architects. A bank is not a client to whom designers would normally suggest their most adventurous color choices, but the creative team at Capital One Labs in San Francisco was an exception. This group, which develops apps for easy and effective interface with Capital One’s online customers, wanted their space to reflect the wide open spirit of their team. Capital One Labs is essentially a design studio, and the people who work there wanted it to look like one. They didn’t want to drape it in banker’s gray.

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OA的设计师用一个吸引眼球的调色板来回应。楼梯的颜色，“拉斯蒂克戏剧”，和支撑梁，“山墙蓝”，座椅靠垫，“热粉红”，和冰箱，“石灰绿”，以一种既充满活力又和谐的方式结合在一起。设计师阿尔玛·洛佩兹(Alma Lopez)说：“有一个对红粉色开放的客户是件好事。”

O+A’s designers responded with a palette that arrests the eye. The colors chosen for the staircase, “Rustic Drama,” and the support beams, “Gabled Blue,” and the seating cushions, “Hot Pink,” and the refrigerator, “Lime Green,” came together in a way that was both vibrant and harmonious. “It was nice to have a client who was open to Hot Pink,” says Designer Alma Lopez.

色彩只是贯穿整个设计的游戏性的一个方面。响应客户的要求，新的空间包括一个休息的地方，OA超越了柔软的沙发，创造了一个高架睡觉的角落，这是空间的中心特征之一。这个角落是通过梯子进入的，它重建了树屋的舒适隔离，同时为“资本一号”(Capital One)的辛勤工作的员工提供了一个实用的退路-其中一些人参加了一天和两天的头脑风暴式黑客攻击，在此期间没有人睡得多。

Color was just one aspect of a playfulness that extends throughout the design. Responding to the client’s request that the new space include a place to rest, O+A went beyond a soft couch to create an elevated sleeping nook that is one of the central features of the space. The nook, which is accessed by a ladder, recreates the cozy isolation of a treehouse while providing a practical retreat for Capital One’s hardworking employees—some of whom participate in one- and two-day brainstorming hack-a-thons during which no one gets much sleep.

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沉睡的角落可能是“资本家”最原始的特征，但从视觉上看，最引人注目的是楼梯。OA的核心理念之一是，纯粹的功能元素-通道、电梯、楼梯-为设计提供了独特的机会。将二楼和三楼连接起来，不是用隐藏的楼梯井，而是用一件集中的、明亮的黄色垂直雕塑，既实现了实用目标，又增加了居住在良好空间中的无形价值。“你正在创造一种从楼梯上下来的体验，”洛佩兹说。

While the sleeping nook may be the most original of Capital One’s features, the most striking in visual terms is the staircase. It is one of O+A’s core beliefs that purely functional elements—passageways, elevators, staircases—offer unique opportunities for design. Connecting the second and third floors, not with a hidden stairwell, but with a centralized, bright yellow piece of vertical sculpture, accomplishes the practical object while adding the intangible value that comes from inhabiting well-made space. “You’re creating an experience coming down those stairs,” Lopez says.

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创造一种体验是所有OA设计选择资本一号实验室背后的动力。从安装在保罗史密斯格子里的墙角到天花板上悬挂的吸音顶盖，再到石灰和粉红厨房，再到电话室，再到可循环使用的牛仔布墙-这种环境的每一个方面都是为了提高在这个空间工作的有创造力的人的体验。

Creating an experience was the driving force behind all of O+A’s design choices for Capital One Labs. From the wall cubbies fitted out in Paul Smith plaid to the sound-absorbing Tectum panels suspended from the ceiling to the lime and pink kitchen and the phone room with recycled denim walls—every aspect of this environment is meant to enhance the experience of the creative people who are working in the space.

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贾斯珀·萨尼德