Native Teams — architectural project by Parallel Group

Commercial

Native Teams

Skopje, North Macedonia

Remote, Together

The floor is planned for the weeks people are in rather than the weeks they are not: fewer desks, more rooms, and a kitchen sized for everybody at once. The alternative was conventional and would have worked; this one works better for the people who are actually in the building.

Native Teams — view 1

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Exterior Perspective

Native Teams — full-width view 1
Native Teams — full-width view 2
Native Teams — detail view 1

This is an office for a company whose staff are mostly somewhere else in the only form that counts. The intent survives the construction, which is where most of it is usually lost.

Native Teams — full-width view 3
Native Teams — full-width view 4

Here, the floor is planned for the weeks people are in rather than the weeks they are not: fewer desks, more rooms, and a kitchen sized for everybody at once. The tolerance in that junction is tighter than the rest of the building, and it is the one place the extra work was worth it.

Native Teams — detail view 2
Native Teams — full-width view 5

“It is an office for a company whose staff are mostly somewhere else. That sentence is the whole brief, and the building answers it.”

- Parallel Group Architects

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