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This office building serves as administrative center of an aeronautics factory located in the Algerian highlands. The peculiar context allowed for a typological reconfiguration of the traditional office layout and for a redistribution of the functions. The open-plan office landscape made of group workstations, that usually occupies most of the floorplan, is limited to an extremely modest portion of the building. Inversely, the formal and informal meeting spaces become here the dominant functions of the complex.

On the ground floor, an extensive multifunctional room can be used for large meetings and events or partitioned in smaller spaces for more intimate gatherings, while maintaining a visual connection with the exterior garden. On the upper floor, the circulation paths are merged with a series of informal meeting spots, generating an oblong space lit by zenithal light. This grand hallway serves the offices that, by acknowledging the transition to remote working, are then limited to a reduced number of private rooms.