Hungry Man Productions Headquarters in Los Angeles, California by Freelandbuck

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FreelandBuck has recently completed an 8,000squarefoot office interior for Hungry Man Productions headquarters in Los Angeles. Asked to rethink the organization of the office, the project aims to match the lightheartedness of Hungry Man’s identity with a series of tumbled cubicles that playfully challenge the regularity of the typical office space.

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• Architects: Freelandbuck
• Project: Hungry Man Productions Headquarters
• Location: Angeles, California, USA
• Photography: Eric Staudenmaier

Image Courtesy © Eric Staudenmaier

Loosely organized across the large open floor area, the informal arrangement of office spaces creates a diversity of stable and flexible working configurations. Feigning randomness, the cubicles are calibrated to support specific relationships between staff while leaving adjacent breakout spaces open and flexible. In addition, cubicle boxes pile up to make visually prominent display and projection areas that take full advantage of the generous ceiling height of the warehouse shell.

Image Courtesy © Eric Staudenmaier

Image Courtesy © Eric Staudenmaier

The tumbling cubes are reproduced graphically in the finish treatment of surfaces with CNCmilled MDF and painted details. From specific points of view, these articulated surfaces create spatial illusions and a lively, dynamic work atmosphere. The linework of the paneling reflects and augments the corrugated metal cladding of the existing steelframe warehouse.

The design team for Hungry Man Productions includes Taka Tachibe, Belinda Lee, and Alex Kim.FREELANDBUCK is a Los Angeles and New York Citybased architectural office led by David Freeland and Brennan Buck. Established in 2009, the office makes buildings, spaces, and objects that open multiple modes of engagement through layers of meaning, illusion and visual effect.

Image Courtesy © Eric Staudenmaier

Image Courtesy © Eric Staudenmaier

Drawing, as both design method and autonomous form of representation, is central to the firm’s work, producing visual richness, intricate spatial sequences, and cultural reference. With each project, FreelandBuck aims to form distinct spaces with an inherent connection to the activity around them that contribute to a more stimulating, aesthetically engaging, and challenging world.

Image Courtesy © Eric Staudenmaier

Image Courtesy © Eric Staudenmaier

FreelandBuck was named a finalist for the 2018 MoMA PS1 Young Architect’s Program, a member of Architectural Record’s 2017 Design Vanguard, and a winner of the 2017 AIA LA Next LA Award for their project, Second House. Other recent projects include Parallax Gap, an installation for the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Los Angeles headquarters of Hungry Man Productions, among other residential, commercial, and cultural commissions. David Freeland teaches at SCIArc and Brennan Buck at the Yale School of Architecture.

Image Courtesy © Eric Staudenmaier

Image Courtesy © Eric Staudenmaier

Image Courtesy © Eric Staudenmaier

Image Courtesy © Eric Staudenmaier

Image Courtesy © Freelandbuck

Image Courtesy © Freelandbuck

Tags: California, USA

Categories: Headquarters, Interiors, Office space, Offices

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