What we’re looking for in a building

Posted on | August 20, 2009 | No Comments

We’re looking for locations to talk about at our next co-Creation event, so to help you decide whether something is suitable this is our ideal Space: if you know of something close, email me on locationhunt [at] hubdublin [dot] com.

* Central / Easily Accessible Location
* From 200 sq m to 300 sq m (2150 sq ft to 3200 sq ft)
* Open plan
* Flexible meeting spaces, e.g. two meeting rooms that can be merged to one.
* Large 50-person events space (integrating aforementioned: a space can be cleared by moving furniture)
* Flexible partitioning
* Space for café – or communal kitchen
* “Greenable” – we can add a rooftop garden, for example
* Unstructured cabling
* Natural light, airy and warm (or heatable)

If we find all of the above, brilliant, but we’ll settle for less depending on how strong an impression the space makes.

A quick word on what’s not good:
* Georgian houses, because there are too many rooms and too many floors to create a sense of community;
* buildings on more than one floor, except where there is a larger space for the desks and the other floor space can be used for meetings;
* fitted, modern, anonymous offices: not because of the fixtures, because of the cachet that the building has to have to encourage people to want to work there – Dublin is overstuffed with property developer’s throw-em-up-and-pile-em-in uninspiring workplaces. We think you deserve better.

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