The proposal recovers disused
spaces in a historic building in the center of Madrid where the TeamLabs
headquarters are located. The new spaces will serve as a multipurpose room
(Sala Amart) where students can meet, work, organize screenings or talks, eat,
etc. and a kitchen (Sala la Mère) which in turn is a meeting place for
students.
TeamLabs is not a typical University, it is a campus of entrepreneurship
and innovation and its spaces reflect that innovative character.
In TeamLabs everything is different, the space gets constructed through “derives",
wandering through its corridors, through corners and corners that tell us about
the old and the new, the history, the current and the new spatial brand. In
this space, users take an active part, they must go through the space in its
entirety to perceive what it means as a whole. In every corner, every room,
something special and different happens and that would not make sense without
the previous one. The new spaces are the
surprise at the end of the journey through several corridors.
Play: Homo
ludens, the man who plays, points out the importance of play in the
sociocultural development of humans. The act
of playing is inherent to human culture and learning. The tangram makes sense
in this context, as a game linked to a function, that of the construction of
space. The idea of the tangram is transferred to a spatial dimension throught
the walls, floors, ceilings and furniture.
Flexibility: The furniture is modular and
flexible, based on the idea of the tangram, the tables of different textures
can be combined to adapt to the different uses of the room, maximizing the
spatial experience. Modular bleachers are designed that increase the
versatility of the space and connect it with the adjacent outdoor space.
No Limits: Finishes reflect old and new
(leaving demolition parts visible) and are completed with city maps. These
cities, mapped with an artistic interpretation, are the destinations of the
"learning field trips" that students take during their training:
Mumbai, San Francisco, Shanghai, etc.
Challenge: to design
a flexible room that included the concepts of the spatial branding: that it be
different (TeamLabs is different), that it be imperfect (the culture of
prototyping) and that it be home (TeamLabs as a community of learning teams). The
space had to be "flexible"; this flexibility being a source of
inspiration for other uses and functions: meeting room, projections, reading,
contemplation, relaxation, play, dreaming, etc. Because in TeamLabs learning
transcends the boundaries of what is programmed to make the world a game and
learning board.
Our inspiration: Georges Perec, The Situationist movemet and the Tangram
game.
