Mobile E Immobile

As a part of Bureau Spectacular

Milano, IT

2021

“Mobile e Immobile is a story about the afterlife of office culture in the wake of Zoom and the slow-motion collapse of work-life boundaries. It takes place on an office floor with no walls—less a room than a field—where lines do the work that architecture once did. Some lines are crossed, others avoided. Together they propose a graphic system of thresholds that shape how we move, pause, gather, or withdraw.
Here, figure and ground flip and flatten, forming conceptual rooms that are never fully enclosed. The project asks what remains of the office when its walls fall away. Do we still need enclosure to focus, or can we work in a field of furniture? What defines a workplace—an ergonomic chair, a sense of privacy, or just a laptop and somewhere to plug in?
Blue and green patches gesture toward virtual backgrounds, the kind that flatten space while pretending to expand it. At its core, Mobile e Immobile is about the choreography of mobile furniture within immobile real estate—a flexible theater of work staged inside the rigid economies of the 21st-century office.“

Team: Ekin Bilal, Jimenez Lai