架构师提供的文本描述。2010年夏天，我们受到客户的邀请，在天津设计了1200平方米的室内工作空间。现有的空间是一座独立的办公大楼，平均分为三层，由一个封闭的楼梯和一个电梯连接。

Text description provided by the architects. In the summer of 2010, we were invited by the client to design their 1200 m2 interior work space in Tianjin. The existing space, which is an individual office building, is evenly divided into three floors, connected by an enclosed staircase and an elevator.

设计的挑战是如何向这样一个平庸和静态的结构注入一种激发和活跃的能量。我们试图建立一个连续的办公空间系统，使大部分的办公公共和共享活动都可以进行，如展示、休闲会议和聚会、聊天、交换思想、等待、喝咖啡或茶、放松、阅读等，而不是传统的由走廊连接的办公模式。该系统位于现有楼板的中央海湾，由于其有限的空气流量和自然光增益，被认为是办公桌工作空间质量最低的位置。公共生活系统也起着主循环脊梁的作用。在改造过程中，为了垂直增强混凝土板的视觉连续性和循环连续性，从现有的混凝土板上切出了一系列的方形开口。我们希望这样一个空间系统，就像一个公共活动的容器，能够不断地产生和放大办公室日常生活的能量，并最终激励整个周围的正常工作区域。

The design challenge is how to instill a provoking and active energy to such a mediocre and static structure. Instead of the conventional office pattern, which all the program units connected by corridors, we try to establish a continuous space system that the most of the office public and sharable activities could take place in, such as displaying, casual meeting and gathering, chatting, thought exchanging, waiting, having coffee or tea, relaxing, reading and etc. The system situates at the central bay of the existing floor plate, where considered as the location of the least spatial quality for desk working because of its limited air flow and natural light gain. The public life system also functions as the main circulation spine. In order to reinforce the visual and circulation continuity vertically, a series of square openings are cut from the existing concrete slabs during the renovation. We hope such a space system, like a container of the public activities, could consistently generate and amplify the energy of the office daily life, and eventually motivate the entire surrounding regular work area.

公共生活系统从一楼的大厅开始，在三楼的天窗下的等候和聊天区结束。它的材料托盘是独特的，从周围的正常工作区，包括穿孔钢板，自流平混凝土，预制板混凝土面板和垂直绿色墙。绿色墙，嵌入了一个自动灌溉系统，不仅成为每一层独特的视觉特征，而且通过在其上面生长大量的植被，不断地帮助室内空气质量的改善。

The public life system starts at the lobby at first floor, and ends at the waiting and chatting area under a skylight at the third floor. Its material pallet is unique from the regular work area around, consisting of perforated steel panel, self leveling concrete, prefab concrete panel and vertical green wall. The green wall, with an automatic water irrigation system embedded, not only becomes a unique visual character of each floor, but also consistently assists indoor air quality improvement by the large amount of vegetation growing on top of it.