Quipu — architectural project by Parallel Group

Commercial

Quipu

Skopje, North Macedonia

Threaded Through

The route is deliberately indirect and passes every team once, so the walk to the kitchen is also the way you learn what everyone else is doing. The alternative was conventional and would have worked; this one works better for the people who are actually in the building.

Quipu — view 1

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Exterior Perspective

Quipu — full-width view 1
Quipu — full-width view 2
Quipu — detail view 1

This is a workplace where a single circulation thread ties otherwise separate teams together in the only form that counts. The intent survives the construction, which is where most of it is usually lost.

Quipu — full-width view 3
Quipu — full-width view 4

Here, the route is deliberately indirect and passes every team once, so the walk to the kitchen is also the way you learn what everyone else is doing. 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.

Quipu — detail view 2
Quipu — full-width view 5
Quipu — gallery image 1
Quipu — gallery image 2
Quipu — gallery image 3
Quipu — gallery image 4

“It is a workplace where a single circulation thread ties otherwise separate teams together. That sentence is the whole brief, and the building answers it.”

- Parallel Group Architects

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