We designed a large ‘Living Room’, dine-in ‘Kitchen’ and ‘Library’ that doubled as a boardroom and a ‘rough-and-ready’ Workshop. An exercise studio including showers, lockers and changing rooms, as well as a softly lit Mothers’ Room were incorporated. The building’s structural columns were exploited, forming ‘portals’ between neighbourhoods that embraced an open collaboration space. The small residual spaces between the columns and the curtain-wall formed transparent, sound-proofed Focus Rooms to accommodate privacy. All exposed concrete column surfaces were coated in writeable “IdeaPaint”.