Second Home Spitalfields

This collaborative space accommodates several small companies and features transparent acrylic walls, flexible meeting areas and an event space for company meetings, film screenings and workshops.

Spread out over two floors, the offices are contained behind the bubble-like plastic partitions which maintain views all the way through the building. A large opening was created between the two floors to link the spaces and form a central hub. Within this space, a folded steel plate stair was hung using 10mm diameter rebar — interwoven to form a curved mesh strong enough to support the balustrade and stabilise the stair.

An event space with a grand U-shaped table provides a place for meetings, with the table designed to be winched up towards the ceiling when not in use for flexibility.

The new façade matches the winding acrylic corridors, consisting of sheets of acrylic curved to either dome out of or arc into the building. Erection of the supporting steelwork for this façade was all done from within the building so no scaffolding was required. On the side of the building, a new lift clad in polycarbonate rises up from the ground floor to the rooftop café with various new staircases wrapped around it to link up all the levels.