HANGHAR HQ
Our new HQ is an exploration on local productive typologies: the neighborhood car workshop.
The space inherits its narrow, elongated proportion—17.5 x 3.5 meters—and embraces it, allowing the typology to become both constraint and method. The intervention renders the former workshop as an abstract, all-white envelope, a neutral field in which subtle variations of depth, section, and light establish different ways of occupying the space.
At the core of the project is a single material system: an interior built from 6-mm thick steel plates, assembled in place.
These plates fold and structure the existing space, producing an architecture that is at once solid and strangely fragile—closer to a scaled-up paper model than to
conventional construction. Their changing intervals and profiles define the spatial episodes along the length of the space while preserving the workshop’s essential linear order. The plan does not partition but gently modulates the corridor-like interior into moments of intensity and pause.
Within this linear sequence, zones for storage, meeting, working, cooking, and retreat arise from shifts in thickness and proximity rather than enclosure, creating a continuum in which programs coexist and evolve over time.
Light becomes a second structural element. The lighting has been developed in collaboration with the Barcelona-based studio Rauric, whose work pushes industrial production processes toward something conceptual and almost artisanal. Together, they construct a space that is simultaneously workplace and interior landscape— an elongated room that quietly reimagines how we inhabit the act of working.
