City Leadership
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Architecture
Interior Design -
Adaptive Reuse
Low Maintenance Materials -
Completed May 2017
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Memphis, Tennessee
A new home for a non-profit whose mission is to maximize the leadership capital and potential of Memphis by recruiting talented individuals to Memphis, developing leaders and organizations in Memphis, and catalyzing collaborative projects for the benefit of the city.
The non-profit moved its offices into a newly rejuvenated Crosstown Concourse offering a spectrum of types of workspaces to accentuate the importance of cultivating relationships in a diverse community. The design reflects the image of an organization committed to the community while providing diverse workspaces for an agile staff.
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The office space is bounded to the south by the warehouse’s windows and to the east by a large public atrium. The project’s design strategy directly connects an open office area with the public atrium, then furnishes the open office with a field of workspace choices. A series of spliced, woven carpets, are used to define the collaboration zones within the open workspace. The flexible zones are positioned to take advantage of the natural daylight and views of the city. The carpet and furniture spill out into the public atrium beneath a frameless glazed storefront with a large glass garage door, creating a front porch and opening the interior of the organization up to the community. Offices and multi-use meeting spaces form an “L” around the open workspace, framing connections between collaborators and the public.
