Mantab办公空间是S/LAB10最新的设计作品之一。项目业主是马来西亚吉隆坡的一家房地产开发公司，在最终的方案设计中，设计团队需要对现有建筑进行全面的内部检修，改造设计一个能够应对东南亚气候和本土化的办公室/工作空间。业主公司不仅需要一个能够容纳其不断扩增团队的办公空间，还需要一系列用于招待客户的空间。因此，现有的单体、多层住宅空间被改造为一个充满吸引力的私人企业中心，完美融合了商业与休闲功能。

Mantab Workplace is one of S/LAB10’s latest endeavours. Comprising a complete internal overhaul of an existing bungalow—the team was required to re-examine the office/workspace typology in a Southeast Asian climate and locality for a local property development company in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia in producing the final design scheme. The firm required not just a workspace for its growing team, but also a series of spaces for hosting and entertaining their clients. As such, the existing single unit, multi-storey former residence was transformed into a gleaming corporate hub for a private entity that seamlessly integrates business and leisure.

▼Mantab办公空间外观，exterior view of Mantab Workplace

▼开窗效果，half-shut exterior

Mantab最引人注目的就是它明亮而大胆的外观。包裹着内部空间的金色铜立面从地面升起，在郊区街道上若隐若现。三角形哑光面和高抛光的铜合金表面似乎是随机布置的，但实际上是设计师根据企业名字和品牌概念而设计的。在马来语中，“mantab”意味着坚定、不可动摇的正直。设计师将企业名字的含义与钻石的坚硬联系起来，钻石每一个切面都不相同，却有着无可挑剔的刚硬之美。同时设计师受马来西亚商店铁皮百叶窗启发，金色铜合金折叠面板采用铰链式，具有可控制性。无论是从内部能够窥探到郊区景色的半封闭状态，还是为了保护隐私、阻挡热带强烈阳光照射的全封闭状态，立面都是引人注目且充满魅力的，能够吸引游客对内部空间产生好奇。

What stands out in particular in Mantab Workplace is its gleaming bold façade. Looming over the quiet suburban street, the gold-copper alloy façade rises up from the building’s ground level in shielding its interior furtively. The triangulated facets of the matte-and highly polished finishing of gold-copper alloy are seemingly arbitrary–but in essence are conceptually extrapolated from the corporation’s name and brand. Translated from Malay language, “mantab” means solidity; an unshakeable integrity. The designers likened this to the hardiness of a diamond—with no single facet on the jewel alike, yet abound with impeccably hardy beauty. Inspired as well by the Malaysian shophouse vernacular of folding iron shutters, the gold-copper alloy clad folding panels are hinged and operable. Whether angled half-shut with its interiors peeking out to its suburban extents, or closed in entirety for privacy and to keep out the glare of tropical light out—the façade is eye-catching and captivating, with the allure of it leaving many a visitor guessing what lies within.

▼建筑采用金色铜面板结构，the building used the gold-copper alloy clad folding panels

设计要求非常特殊：在建筑内部设计一系列的空间，满足从商业到社交的不同用途。因此，S/LAB10的任务是改变和挑战办公空间的标准。新设计的方案包括公司三位主管的办公室、一个展览空间和许多用来接待客户的休闲区域。设计团队试图设计一个不仅能满足上述要求，并且功能实用、具有视觉冲击力的综合性设计方案。项目保留了建筑原有的基本结构（这个结构非常有助于处理场地自然陡峭的斜坡）。这是一个精巧整合了体量，对比性表面、材料、肌理以及用途和复杂细节设计的空间。在现有结构框架中，表面及体量元素的处理手法，在充满力量及感官刺激的空间体验和贯穿始终的设计语言中，达到了极致。自信、醒目的建筑表现形式和对客户而言充满识别性的布置，被谨慎地容纳到现有建筑之中。

The design brief was unusual: to create a series of spaces within the building to suit a variety of purposes that ranged from business to social. Thus, S/LAB10 was tasked to revise and challenge the norms of an office typology. The new programme was to include offices for the company’s three directors as well a display gallery and numerous leisure spaces for hosting clients. The team sought to fulfil the client’s requirements by delivering a design that not only re-worked the aforementioned, but also resulted in a comprehensive design scheme that was both visually striking and practical in its function. The project inherits the house’s basic structure (which proved advantageous in dealing with the site’s naturally steep incline). In place, is a dexterous play of cantilevering volumes, contrasting surfaces, materials and texture, as well as the considered use and design of intricate details throughout. The consolidation of the building’s existing structural framework with a bold play of surface and volumetric elements culminates in a strong, sensual spatial experience and language throughout. And subsequently, a confident, bold architectural presence and visual identity for the client prudently set within the existing building’s typology.

▼充满对比性的表面、材料、肌理，contrasting surfaces, materials and texture