TOKITU
Location | Bilbao
Typology | Talent Architecture / Workspace
Area | 45 m²
Year | 2026
Status | Completed
Can a simple curtain and a mirrored wall multiply the light and silence the visual noise of an office?
The curtain hides the noise. The colour draws the play.
The Challenge
We started with a long, narrow rectangular premises, with a single point of natural light at one end. We needed an open, dynamic space for four people, with an integrated meeting area. The challenge was to avoid the feeling of a narrow tube and to eliminate the “visual noise” (samples, printers, coats, drawings) that stifles creativity in an architecture studio.
The Experience of Impact
The strategy comes down to two verbs: enclose and multiply. We confined everything we didn’t want to see behind an immense curtain that, ironically, does not cover the window, which is left bare to flood the interior with light. It acts as a soft wall that reinforces the geometry of the space and hides five service areas: coat racks, kitchenette, audiovisual equipment, sample library and printing. The tables, made from scaffold poles and wheels, and the plants as a mobile visual barrier, allow the work area and the meeting area to be swapped in seconds. The large free wall, in mirrored acrylic, multiplies the light and serves as a canvas for creative sessions.
The space is a tribute to our profession: we keep drawing to imagine a better future, just as we did as children. That is why it is governed by basic shapes and four colours from childhood: the blue rectangle of the curtain, a red circle that delimits the meeting area, the yellow of the chairs and the green dot of the plants.
What changes in the experience
The working environment stops being a static, cluttered space and becomes an agile, clean ecosystem full of light that stimulates play, imagination and creative efficiency.
“We hid the visual noise behind a large blue curtain and turned 45 m² into an agile, bright and playful space where we keep drawing as we did when we were children.”
Can the industrial heritage of the past solve the loneliness of the future?
The factory is giving up the space. Coliving cures loneliness.
The Challenge
Eibar faces a double challenge: the loss of its historic industrial activity, which leaves large urban voids, and the aging and isolation of its population. How can the rehabilitation of a former factory revitalize a city socially and economically and open up new community opportunities?
The Impact Experience
For the iconic AIBE factory, we propose three urban acupuncture strategies: generating territorial movement by decentralizing public facilities; breaking down the barrier between the urban and the natural with an extensive park of sports facilities and gardens that promote self-sufficiency; and, at the heart, an intergenerational public housing (coliving) that mitigates the loneliness of the elderly.
The former factory space is being transformed into a vibrant community where young and old share daily life. The industrial shell is not only preserved: it is once again filled with life.
"We rehabilitated an old factory into an intergenerational coliving space to combat loneliness by uniting the daily lives of young and old in a natural environment."
How does the experience change?
It goes from industrial abandonment to a mutual support ecosystem that socially revitalizes a city.
Can a simple curtain and a mirrored wall multiply the light and silence the visual noise of an office?
The curtain hides the noise. The colour draws the play.
The Challenge
We started with a long, narrow rectangular premises, with a single point of natural light at one end. We needed an open, dynamic space for four people, with an integrated meeting area. The challenge was to avoid the feeling of a narrow tube and to eliminate the “visual noise” (samples, printers, coats, drawings) that stifles creativity in an architecture studio.
The Experience of Impact
The strategy comes down to two verbs: enclose and multiply. We confined everything we didn’t want to see behind an immense curtain that, ironically, does not cover the window, which is left bare to flood the interior with light. It acts as a soft wall that reinforces the geometry of the space and hides five service areas: coat racks, kitchenette, audiovisual equipment, sample library and printing. The tables, made from scaffold poles and wheels, and the plants as a mobile visual barrier, allow the work area and the meeting area to be swapped in seconds. The large free wall, in mirrored acrylic, multiplies the light and serves as a canvas for creative sessions.
The space is a tribute to our profession: we keep drawing to imagine a better future, just as we did as children. That is why it is governed by basic shapes and four colours from childhood: the blue rectangle of the curtain, a red circle that delimits the meeting area, the yellow of the chairs and the green dot of the plants.
What changes in the experience
The working environment stops being a static, cluttered space and becomes an agile, clean ecosystem full of light that stimulates play, imagination and creative efficiency.
“We hid the visual noise behind a large blue curtain and turned 45 m² into an agile, bright and playful space where we keep drawing as we did when we were children.”
TOKITU
Location | Bilbao
Typology | Talent Architecture / Workspace
Area | 45 m²
Year | 2026
Status | Completed
LET'S BUILD SOMETHING TOGETHER