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A Compact Home Office With Something Extra: It’s Also a Train
Working with the architect Tom Kundig, a creative director had a crazy idea: Wouldn’t it be cool if you could put your work space on a railroad track?
Olson Kundig Architects’ mobile ‘Maxon Studio’ rolls into the forest on railroad tracks
A private workspace to compliment an existing home nestled amongst the forests of a rural area outside Seattle.
Maxon Studio
The two-story structure rests on 15-foot-gauge railroad tracks, keeping it completely separate from the land. It’s clad in weathered steel panels, and its form mimics the look o a traditional caboose.
In Washington, Olson Kundig Architects unveil a stunning studio set upon railroad tracks
Olson Kundig unveiled a stunning two-story studio whose entire volume is set upon railroad tracks.
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The Office on Wheels: This One-Person Studio Enables Agile Autonomous Work
Mounted on rails, Maxon House’s detached studio space allows its user to reposition the building. The project reiterates how spatial agility can drive user autonomy and wellbeing.
The incredible office on wheels that rolls back and forth on tracks between the owner's house and a forest to give him the feeling of a 'commute'
Inspiration for the wacky two-storey office also came from railroad track remnants found in the grounds of the house during excavation work, with the short section of extra-wide 15ft- (4.5m) gauge track that the studio sits on formed from repurposed Great Northern Railway track.
He put his home office on tracks so he could commute into the forest? For real?
Studio normally sits next to Maxon’s 3,2000-square-foot home. He uses locomotive controls to move it along railway tracks into the forest. And back.
One way to avoid a work commute? Turn your office into a train
Architects Olson Kundig built a two-story office that detaches from its owner’s house and glides on railroad tracks.
Olson Kundig places mobile studio on
rail tracks in
Washington State
Called Maxon Studio, the project compromises a two-story weathering-steel structure constructed as an office for the client’s branding agency in Carnation, Washington.
This Ingenious Home Office Rolls Into the Forest on Train Tracks
The one-of-a-kind workspace can sit right next to the house… or be rolled away into the trees.
In Carnation a home office that doubles
as a train
Lou Maxon doesn’t just commute to the office.
He commutes in his office.
Maxon Railway is an
office on rails
A space for inspiration on a short-but-wide railroad
Modern Cabin ‘Maxon Studio’ Is Built on Railroad Tracks for Mobility
This clever, detached workroom dubbed Maxon Studio is a complement to an existing cabin in a forest outside of Seattle, Washington. Built on fifteen-foot-gauge railroad track, the addition can move on the tracks, separating from the main cabin, allowing the studio to have its own privacy and solitude.
Olson Kundig Architects Creates the Maxon Studio
Seattle-based design firm Olson Kundig Architects creates the new Maxon Studio that is attached to a primary residence.
It is set on top of railroad tracks that allow it to entirely detach. The structure is made up of a two-story design made from weathering steel materials. It functions as a branding agency office for the clients and can be found in Carnation, Washington.
Remarkable home office rolls down a railroad when it’s time for work
A commute with a difference: Maxon Studio is attached to the owner’s main residence for easy access, and it rolls down a railroad track to a secluded spot once the workday begins.
