Project: Blend Labs Architecture and Interior Design: Studio O A Team: Primo Orpilla, Dan Kretchmer, Tari Pelaez, Brianna Bernstein, Nikki Hall, Olivia Ward, Amy Young, Sean Houghton Location: City San Francisco, CA Size 53,000 sf Year: 2017 Photographer: Garrett Rowland

项目：混合实验室建筑和室内设计：工作室O A团队：Primo Or支柱，Dan Kretchmer，Tari Pelaez，Brianna Bernstein，Nikki Hall，Olivia Ward，Amy Young，Sean Houghton Location：旧金山市，CA大小53，000 SF年：2017年摄影师：Garrett Rowland

One of the intriguing developments in business over the last few years is the speed with which tradition-bound industries have been reimagined in new technological contexts. O A’s challenge at Blend Labs in San Francisco was to bring the nimbleness and comfort of a modern tech office to a financial services company eager to take the angst out of mortgage transactions. Blend needed to convey the dexterity of a new approach while maintaining the sense of weightiness that buying a home entails.

过去几年，商业领域的一个有趣发展是，在新的技术环境下，传统行业被重新塑造的速度之快。OA在旧金山混合实验室面临的挑战是，将现代科技办公室的灵活性和舒适性带给一家急于摆脱抵押贷款交易焦虑的金融服务公司。混合需要传达一种新方法的灵巧性，同时保持购买一套房子所需要的重量感。

Space to Put the Client at Ease Home lending is an industry in which the customer is often under stress. Blend wanted an office that would work with their employees (and their business model) to put the client at ease. While comfort is a factor in every workplace O A designs, here it is embedded in the project’s underlying theme—specifically the comforts of home.

让客户放心的空间是一个让客户感到压力的行业。Blend想要一个办公室，与他们的员工(以及他们的商业模式)一起工作，让客户放心。虽然舒适是每个工作场所的OA设计中的一个因素，但在这里，它嵌入了项目的基本主题-特别是家庭的舒适度。

Informality You Can Trust O A’s design deploys the interior infrastructures commonly associated with tech—raw concrete, exposed ceilings, open plan work configurations, stairs you can sit on—but clothes them in a “banker’s suit.” The palette and finish selections at Blend combine shades and textures of gray, black, navy and white to create a unique visual impact. On the one hand, a transparent airiness that removes the overhang of intimidation financial transactions often evoke and on the other, a reassuring tonal profile calculated to communicate steadiness and trust.

你可以相信OA的设计是非正式的，它的内部基础设施通常与技术生混凝土、裸露的天花板、开放式的工作结构、你可以坐在上面的楼梯等相关-但把它们穿在“银行家的西服”里。调色板和完成选择在混合结合色调和纹理的灰色，黑色，深蓝色和白色，以创造一个独特的视觉效果。一方面，透明的通畅消除了金融交易的威胁，另一方面，旨在传达稳定和信任的令人放心的调性形象。

A Staircase with Tattoos The centerpiece of the design is the staircase that rises to a lounge area and fireplace. These stairs, which double as a lunch destination or stadium seating for all hands meetings, demonstrate the personalization all of us bring to our favorite spaces. Each step and riser is tattooed with a custom pattern abstracted from some builder’s detail—windows or tile or patterned brick. The effect is of a functional architectural feature transformed into a personal object.

带有纹身的楼梯-设计的核心是通往休息区和壁炉的楼梯。这些楼梯，作为午餐的目的地或所有双手会议的体育场座位，显示了我们大家都给我们最喜欢的空间带来的个性化。每一步和每一个冒口都有一个定制图案的纹身，这个图案是从建筑工人的细节中抽象出来的-窗户、瓷砖或有图案的砖块。其效果是将功能建筑特征转化为个人对象。

Residential Echoes The larger message here is “home.” Finish selections, materials and details echo styles of home building from different eras in American real estate, capturing the many ways we turn our habitations into homes and at the same time making this office that facilitates that process a cozy space itself. With a kitchen that would not be out of place in a modern loft apartment and warm details throughout the space this design achieves a perfect balance of tradition and innovation, analog and tech, gravity and that feeling that comes when the weight of the world (or mortgage) is lifted from your shoulders.

居住在这里的更大的信息是“回家。”的选择、材料和细节的回声风格，从美国房地产的不同时代开始，捕捉了我们把我们的住处变成家庭的许多方式，同时让这个办公室方便了一个舒适的空间本身。在现代阁楼公寓的厨房里，在整个空间里，这个设计可以实现传统和创新、模拟和技术的完美平衡，以及当世界（或抵押）的重量从你的肩膀抬起时产生的那种感觉。