Photography: Benny Chan
Cory Grosser + Associates designed the offices for Supplyframe’s DesignLab, a technology collaboration hub located in downtown Pasadena, California.
The project began when Supplyframe acquired Hackaday, an online community of over six-million engineers sharing innovative ideas daily. This community inspired the concept for DesignLab, a place where hackers and creatives could come together and, through collaboration and resources, take their ideas beyond hypothetical.
The Supplyframe DesignLab’s mission is to be a workspace and collaboration hub bringing together inventors and entrepreneurs to explore the future of how projects are built and brought to the market. The 4,900 square foot studio space was to be a hothouse of hardware innovation, entrepreneurial thinking, education and thought leadership – a hacker space at
the next level.
The interior combines areas for brainstorming, prototyping, model making and fabrication with a gallery and assembly space for community events. The historic building housing DesignLab is typically Old Town Pasadena, with bow-arched ceilings, exposed wood beams, and warm brick walls. These qualities were preserved and consciously juxtaposed against the new construction of clean white ceiling clouds, polished concrete floors and industrial steel-clad walls, all of which speak of the Supplyframe brand and Hackaday vibe.
