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Coworking Utopicus, Avenida Diagonal, Barcelona

bod just designed the sixth coworking space in Barcelona for Utopicus.

The leitmotif of this new office space is the noble Avenida Diagonal, with its magnificent art-nouveau buildings and parks. The reception resembles a palace's living room; the meeting rooms are named after the most beautiful city squares, and the terrace resembles a rose garden.

Located in the middle of the city’s central business area, the 1500 m2 of modern and technologically up-to-date office space offers 117 flexible workplaces, in addition to a green terrace of 400m2.

The finishing was adapted to meet the technological requirements of the future tenants and designed entirely for sustainability:

•  All building materials and furniture were subject to strict sustainability controls.
• The lighting system uses sensors to adjust automatically according to the use of the spaces.
•  A BMS system measures real-time consumption allows energy savings and fast air renewal.

Compliance with cost and time schedules were both met by bod and its contractors, and the coworking space is already fully booked for March.

Coworking Sea Side

bod designed the brand new Coworking Sea Side, in Barceloneta, one of Barcelona’s coolest locations, where coworkers will enjoy the sea’s views in an old fisherman’s neighborhood. 

The Coworking is in the iconic Torre Mare Nostrum, planned by renowned architects Enric Miralles and Benedetta Tagliabue in 2005. It generates a volume of vertical growth, fractionated into different bodies with different scales, opening-up like a door to the Barceloneta neighborhood.

This ambitious project of refurbishing the original office space into a trendy 3800m2 Coworking, on six different levels, was realized entirely during the lockdown. To conform to the new Covid-19 reality, we included brand new solutions and reconfigured common and event areas to limit contamination risks. The result is a cutting edge and Covid-safe project, where staff and coworkers feel safer and can enjoy a relaxed atmosphere.

bod designed the space with smooth forms and colors to give a new, fresh, and breezy identity. On the Ground Floor, there’s the Club: a multi-use space for VIP members. On the first floor are reception, canteen, collaboration area, desks for fix and flex coworkers. The following three levels will be rented as full-floor offices, with separate private access. On the 5th floor are the best views, where you can see the seaside while working.

The client, the staff, and the first Coworkers are pleased with the result.

It is the 4th Coworking we designed and managed its construction for TSST, and again, even in lockdown, we met the client’s expectations of time and budget.