Building upon the success of Box on the Docks, HemingwayDesign were commissioned to design a new social and co-working space for the MediaCityUK community.
Located within the atrium of MediaCity’s Open Centre, home of dock10 studios, Hot House incorporates a series of informal workspaces, collaborative meeting areas, F&B offer operated by Kargo MKT, and a pop-up gallery space providing a platform for Salford based artists and creatives to exhibit their work.
Bespoke, moveable partitions create an arrangement of informal ‘zones’ for working, meeting, eating & drinking. Partitions vary in scale to accommodate different levels of separation and range from low and medium-level planter partitions to larger shelving dividers populated with potted plants. Each item has been designed to be easily movable, allowing for flexibility within the space to accommodate a developing programme of talks and events.
In addition to incorporating a small exhibition space for promoting the work of both up-and-coming creatives and more established occupiers of MediaCity, the project commissioned Salford-born and Manchester-based illustrator, Jane Bowyer, to create two large scale mural graphics for the space.
Photography: Josh Kemp-Smith
Fabicators: M3 Industries