With COVID, work spaces have certainly altered, extending to encompass residences with the online culture coming into stay. While the concept of work from home, building a home office, reaching out to a co-working space have become the accepted norm, how about creating a space to work within a shipping container? Sounds weird? Or novel yet doubtful? Perhaps.
But that is exactly what Architects Arun Balan and Klinna of Balan & Nambisan Architects created when they were approached to come up with an office and experience centre in a precast concrete factory. Given the rugged industrial environs of the site, they opined that the structure they came up with would need to stand out and yet retain the industrial language of the domain. Besides, there was also an expectation keyed in: to facilitate dismantling when required and relocate elsewhere.
