GoDaddy Silicon Valley Office / DES Architects +

Engineers

From the architect. Accented by colorful and outdoor inspired materials, the new Silicon Valley
outpost for GoDaddy complements the companys lively culture and mobile workforce.
The free-flowing space is connected by racetrack-themed corridors complete with push-pedal gokarts that circulate energy throughout the interior. The strategy behind the vibrant workplace was to
create activity-based spaces tailored to its employees.
Task-driven furnishings height-adjustable desks, movable seating pods, and a portable bar
provide unlimited opportunities to suit the needs of GoDaddy employees.
Opportunities for recreation and down-time were carefully integrated for a seamless experience
between work and play. With this animated and fluid environment, GoDaddys new workplace
holistically supports their talented engineers in driving new technologies forward .

MIT Beaver Works / Merge Architects

From the architect. This multi-use research and collaboration space was developed for students,
faculty, and technical professionals in the Tech Square hub near MITs campus in Cambridge.
Beaver Works, a joint center for MIT Lincoln Laboratory and MIT School of Engineering, serves as a
work space and showcase where students and faculty develop and test ideas for incorporation into
the National Defense portfolio. Along with a research lab, the space incorporates a caf/lounge area,
meeting rooms, and a prototyping shop, where affiliates can carry out design/build research
projects.
In addition to meeting the basic functional requirements of the project with fabrication
facilities, Merge Architects utilized highly flexible custom design elements and multi-layered
transparency to address the primary function of the space: to attract and retain innovative thinkers
with an architectural language that enables collaboration between researchers, encourages
serendipitous social encounters, and galvanizes creative thinking.

Sant Antoni Joan Oliver Library / RCR Arquitectes

From the architect. The library, as a door and chill-out space for reading, retirement home, as a
facade of public space, and the interior of the block as playground for children with spatial and
relationship richness for a socially dynamic urban project.
A varied program to revitalize an urban area, which retrieves the interior of the block.
The library, as a door, filters light through the boxes in the reading rooms interposed between the
two sides, and allows the sun through the open passage from the street into the garden.
The retirement home in a cul de sac, sets the public space with its facade and backyard, and
becomes an element of social cohesion to enhance the relationship of children playing in the yard
with older people who come and go. The garden with trees, saul, games, presents itself, on one
hand, as an extension of the reading rooms of the library which proposes a tiered space for a more
playful use, and on the other hand raises the illusion that it continues beyond the retirement home.

Mediateca de Carballo / scar Pedrs

From the architect. Thinking on a 21th. Century library -as a friend of mine would say-, is like
wondering about a books cemetery. At that point, all efforts must conciliate architectonic nonvariable values as sequence, promenade and staying with immateriality brought by new
technologies. There is no other solution than sharing jealously material space with virtuality to avoid
Carballos newest building ending as book warehouse.
The building is placed in Carballo, a medium-sized spanish village (30.000 inh.), 35 km. far away
from A Corua, Galicia, Northwest Spain. Urban atmosphere is strongly rude,full of party walls and
unfinished housing blocks. The building becomes quite hermetic and opens itself to an inner patio
acting as an open space for reading.
An U-shaped ground floor surrounds a central patio with controlled access from outside. This patio
behaves as an extension of future public space northwards. First floor closes itself in a O-shaped
diagram. Media-readers access through two staircases placed on both ground floor U-wings,
closing a spiral-path so movement and discovering inner space become a natural sequence.
Teen/adult worlds converge in fiction and comic (N) and music & media (S). Third piece is a sloping
recitals room & readers club. This piece is oriented west, covering an open-air space for
performances.
Floorplans are designed following the complicated plots geometry to get a better ratio of profit in
relationships between inner and outer space, melting the threshold between them.
The final budget (including furniture as shown in pictures and floorplan) was 764,00 /sqm. Definitely
low-cost architecture.