The brief for Landsec’s 1,300 sq ft pop-up “Lab” was to create somewhere different for staff and clients to use as a workshop area.

They wanted to break the mould of their usual, corporate environment and create a space that inspired creativity, new ways of working, collaborating and thinking.

Located within Sustainable Ventures Bankside, the Lab is an innovative and multi-functional space that can either be connected to or separate from the surrounding warehouse environment.

It has a flexible floorplate with different zones defined through the use of lighting, furniture and retractable curtains as well as tones, moods and colours across walls and floors. The furniture is custom-designed and includes a CNC workshop table which can be stacked to change function, moved around or locked into place.

A services ‘truss’ was created through scaffolding to house lighting runs, curtain tracks and industrial style power points.

The simplicity of the modular, moveable and deliberately unpolished space triggers an open-mindedness to ideas which is perfect when exploring and testing new ideas in design and behaviour.