Designer / Agency
Miguel Crespo Picot
Categpory
Office Interiors
Award
- 2024, Nomination Award
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Big and Tiny NYC
Project Présentation
This project is the third location of the American company Big and Tiny. Big and Tiny, was born as a commitment to a new lifestyle for families. A unique place where family and work life can thrive. Big and Tiny, NYC is an early childhood preschool. This third one is located in New York, instead of California like the others. Located in Manhattan, within the Brookfield place shopping complex and near the World Trade Center with the great views of the Statue of Liberty. The floor plan language arises from the attempt to adjust the area of the 5 classrooms to the sq. feet required by the regulations. Due to the morphology of the premises, we opted for a language of irregular shapes, a sort of a Voronoi geometry, with which by displacement and rotation of the sides of these shapes, we achieved the sq.feet required by the regulations. The remaining space between the classrooms and the glass façade will serve as access and playground for the students. This geometry rises in its third dimension as “houses” with sloping roofs, as a metaphor for the “domestic”, and the “home” as it is our original educational system. The volumetric result is a heterogeneous elevation formed by these “houses” of different sizes with access from the playground, towards the outside. Finally, the volumes are torn from side to side, creating a glass strip that ables to introduce the natural light in. Moreover, a skylight is included in the top of the interior ceiling to mimic the natural light. Therefore, the roofs are separated to the lower wall of the classes that houses everything needed for the kids.

Designed by Miguel Crespo Picot
Zooco is an architectural studio founded in 2009 by Miguel Crespo Picot, Javier Guzmán Benito and Sixto Martín Martínez, architects by the School of Architecture of Madrid. The study covers a wide spectrum from the design perspective. From large-scale building to furniture design. The adapted solutions to the client and their needs, and the use of a timeless language, are the hallmarks of a studio in permanent search of new challenges. Currently, we have offices in Madrid and Santander, where we develop projects both nationally and internationally. The work during these ten years covers more than 50 works published in national and international specialized media, some of which have been recognized in various awards such as the prestigious Design Vanguard 2019, NAN Construction 2019 + 2020, Frame Awards 2020, or the European 40 under 40 2020. Recently, Zooco has been chosen by Forbes magazine as one of the 100 most creative Spanish people in the business world. Our philosophy consists into approach any type of assignment, regardless of its scale, budget and program, with the same attitude and creative ambition. Applying the same process searching the most appropriate and valuable solution, both from an artistic and functional point of view. In a world as changing and fleeting as today, we look for architectural and spatial solutions that stand the pass of time, that endure through the constant irruption of trends and fashions, which is the phenomena that cause an immediate expiration of most creative proposals. One of our main objectives is to present design as an added value. We support the client throughout the process of creation and construction of the project, from the first contact until the start-up of the business, advising on all aspects that interfere in the final result.