Quadlab, South Pasadena, California

This project consists of an interior renovation of a historic building in South Pasadena for a graphic design/advertising agency. To meet the needs of the client we inserted two similarly proportioned “boxes” at different scales into the small space—the larger box serves as a multi-person workstation and the smaller box serves as a receptionist/bookkeeper desk whose volume also defines an open conference area. To give the space a contemporary architectural identity the interior is treated as a synthetic intervention within the existing shell displayed in relief through material and aesthetic contrasts.