It always goes back to location, location, location.
Choosing the right spot for a makerspace is a critical part of your project, and we can help guide you to the best choice. Combining our architectural expertise, our know-how around equipment and its requirements, and years of experience understanding the patterns and flow of the people who will be using the space, we approach sites and locations from two angles: the microcosm behind your front doors, and the macrocosm that your makerspace will inhabit – or better yet, will create. We present you with the information you need to make the best possible decisions about location.
Looking first at the wider community, we take an overview of your surrounding district, region or neighborhood to recognize what makes it tick – and consider where a makerspace can best become an integral, contributing part of its story. Makerspace People has been involved in the creative placemaking process in some of the most dynamic cities in the world, and our makerspaces have been focal points for innovation precincts; advanced manufacturing corridors; entrepreneurship and startup hubs; centres of research and development; inner city and rural regeneration; campus repurposing and future-proofing; smart city initiatives; and urban planning.
Having narrowed down a neighbourhood, we then turn our focus to the makerspace site. We have extensive experience custom-fitting makerspaces to a wide array of building and use types. Our team brings expertise to the task of facilitating all technical requirements in any scenario including advising or overseeing building design and layout, floor loading, HVAC, air management and handling, electrical loads etc. Whether in a new development skyscraper or a listed heritage building, our thorough and flexible approach paired with ‘been there, done that’ experience means that we create amazing spaces and find solutions in even the most challenging of sites.
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