ABSTRACT
Spanish architecture studio Zooco designed the Silver Lake location, having already worked on the first Big and Tiny in Santa Monica. As the name suggests, Los Angeles-based Big and Tiny offers facilities for both working parents and young children, without either having to compromise. With Big and Tiny, Keltse Bilbao’s goal was to merge the co-working model with the children’s playground, and at the same time build a community of like-minded working parents. Billed as ‘playworking studios’, Big and Tiny’s spaces offer a variety of flexible membership packages to suit a wide range of lifestyles and budgets. Big and Tiny shows that there is plenty of scope for the co-working typology to diversify and meet its needs. With more imaginative and flexible design models, there is no reason why it should not continue to be an option for individuals when they decide to start a family.
