Oxygen Workplace by Potiropoulos + Partners

In the middle of an ongoing ecological crisis and a severely “weakened” environment (at an interplanetary level), our life is slowly distancing from the human foundation, and architecture is required to investigate proposals that will restore, with a holistic approach, the focus on nature and the quality of life as basic means of survival. The matter in question refers to a sustainable, but also a poetic, facet of architecture, where they can enhance our perception of what is happening around us and support, with optimism, a better future.

The Oxygen workplace is an opportunity to investigate connections introduced in the design, more flexible and at the same time multidisciplinary approaches of creative expression, in relation to more conventional social / spatial concepts that we are used to. During the development of the concept, and beyond the sustainability aspect, other disciplines of art, like sculpture, photography, and poetry, informed in a more abstract but crucial way the architectural “gestures,” showcasing an understanding that exceeds a typical logic of a building, object, and schedule.