Facing the shell of a warehouse in Collingwood, Melbourne, and a brief to create a series of flexible workspaces, Studio Edwards has created a design that sits proud from the fabric of the building.
The design studio created four studio pods from steel beams in vibrant yellow, adding some joy to this otherwise pared-back, industrial space, to form a collection of three-walled offices. Completed with white-painted OSB panels and an acoustic ceiling to help reduce noise from the shared space, the materials present a charming lack of polish, as though improvised by resourceful tenants.
There’s a temporariness in not only their detachment from the walls of the warehouse, but also in their construction: bolted together by hand so that they can re-located at will. The tenants do not, after all, own the building. A nomadic system ensures their investment can be taken forward should the need arise.