Architects: MAT Office Project: Beaver Workshop Office Space Location: Beijing, China Photography: Courtesy of MAT Office

建筑师：MAT办公项目：海狸工作室办公地点：北京，中国

Beaver Workshop Office Space is an innovative work space tailored for a film and media company. It is located in a business park for creative industries, which was transformed from a concrete factory, in Chaoyang District, Beijing. The original space was a single-story truss-structured warehouse, containing three spans, with net height 6 metres and ridge height 9 metres. The client expects to double the usable area by adding an interlayer, thus fulfilling the functional requirements of animation, art, screenwriting, directing, producing, and logistics sections.

海狸工作室办公空间是一个为电影和媒体公司量身定做的创新工作空间。位于北京市朝阳区一家水泥厂改造后的创意产业商业园区内。最初的空间是一个单层桁架结构的仓库，包含三个跨度，净高度6米，山脊高度9米。客户端希望通过添加一个中间层来使可用区域加倍，从而满足动画、艺术、剧本编写、导演、制作和物流部门的功能需求。

We expands the usable space by inserting a multi-opening box which occupied more than half of the site: an atrium and all the inward rooms as Independent offices, meeting rooms, rehearsal room and logistical spaces are contained in the box, while the flowing space outside the box are left for open work space. The client wants to create a flexible, interactive, equal, and fun space atmosphere to inspire employees’ creativity. A split-level strategy is applied to arrange the large conference room and the animation rehearsal room so that people from both first and second level can see the activities inside these spaces. The flowing space creates unique experiences by the collaboration of five different levels and the multi-opening walls.

我们扩大了可用空间，插入了一个多开的盒子，占据了场地的一半以上：一个中庭和所有内向的房间作为独立的办公室、会议室、排练室和后勤空间都包含在盒子里，而盒子外面的流动空间则留给开放的工作空间。客户希望创造一个灵活、互动、平等和有趣的空间氛围，以激发员工的创造力。采用分层策略来安排大型会议室和动画排练室，使第一层和第二层的人都能看到这些空间内的活动。流动的空间创造了独特的体验，通过五个不同的层次和多重开放的墙壁。

Public areas are vital compositions in this innovative office project, and practitioners in creative industries would expect comfortable and relaxing public spaces with life-like experience in this kind of office projects. The atrium connects first and second floor vertically, with lamps and potted plants hanging above a long table, in order to serve a perfect place for presentation, open conference, brainstorming, and team-building party. The tea corner, instead of being enclosed as in a traditional office space, is enlarged into an island bar, providing a recreation spot and networking platform as well as a space for temporary small meeting and brainstorming. The highlight of public space is the atrium area on the second floor: sunlight flooding in through the skylights, hanging plants running through the whole space from roof to the first floor, work space for art and directing section outside the multi-opening box, while on the inside the rehearsal room, the conference room, and the independent office on third floor. Almost every space is making connection with this central area spatially or visually.

在这个创新的办公项目中，公共区域是至关重要的组成部分，创意行业的从业人员希望在这类办公项目中拥有舒适和放松的公共空间，并有类似生活的体验。中庭垂直连接一楼和二楼，台灯和盆栽挂在一张长桌上，以便为演讲、公开会议、头脑风暴和团队建设聚会提供一个完美的场所。茶角不再像传统的办公空间那样封闭，而是扩大成一个岛屿酒吧，提供娱乐场所和网络平台，以及临时小型会议和集思广益的空间。公共空间的亮点是二楼的中庭区域：阳光漫过天窗，从屋顶到一楼的整个空间中挂着植物，在多个开放的盒子外有艺术和指导部分的工作空间，而在排练室、会议室和三楼的独立办公室内部。几乎每一个空间都在空间或视觉上连接着这个中心区域。

There are mainly three features in the design of this office space: 1, Due to the extension layers inside the space, the vertical circulation between levels merges out as the primary issue in the space. We decided to choose the longest path, the one spiraling up along the box. The extended path enriches the spatial experience during walking and increases the sense of volume.

这一办公空间的设计主要有三个特点：1、由于空间内的延伸层，各层之间的垂直环流是空间中的首要问题。我们决定选择最长的一条路，一条沿着盒子螺旋上升的小径。扩展路径丰富了步行过程中的空间体验，增加了体积感。

2, Since the client is a film and animation media company, contextualized spatial experience would be the best way to interpreting their characteristics and corporate culture. In Beaver Workshop Office Space, the spiral path links up different office scenes in working areas, meeting areas and recreation areas, with these scenes independent functionally but connected spatially.

2.由于客户是一家电影动画媒体公司，语境化的空间体验将是解读其特征和企业文化的最佳途径。在Beaver工作室办公空间中，螺旋路径将工作区域、会议区域和娱乐区域的不同办公场景连接起来，这些场景在功能上是独立的，但在空间上是相互连接的。

3, The insertion of the multi-opening box allows multi-layered penetration and flow in the space. Every independent scene linked up by the path can interact with each other visually, endowing this space a transparent feature in phenomenon.

3.多开口盒的插入允许多层渗透和在空间中流动。每一个由路径连接起来的独立场景都能在视觉上相互作用，赋予这个空间一个透明的现象特征。