In contrast, Lagranja has instilled the parking area, lobby and lifts and washrooms of Gravity with an upbeat playfulness. With polished concrete floors, metal finishes and illustrated surfaces, the overall feeling is of being inside a giant space ship on a journey to Planet Fun.
Lagranja invited Barcelona-based artist Javier Royo to design the graphics. Bicycles, whales, rockets and even tooth brushes make up a kooky world that sits between the handmade and digital, the high and low tech.
The tonality of these surfaces changes from floor-to-floor, from turquoise to ice-green; adding a spatial illusion to the confined, narrow layouts. Shiny steel surfaces, mirror-like textured ceilings (which conceal electrical and plumbing installations) add further depth and the sensation of being suspended in time and space.