### [Skyline Workscape: Reframing the High-Rise Office Through Residential Logic](https://01des.com/en/project/296)

**Published:** 2026-08-22T23:05:33

**Author:** 01DES Editor

**Excerpt:** Studio Per shapes a 2,000-square-meter office in Guangd…

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# Skyline Workscape

An office read as a continuous residential landscape.

![Skyline Workscape reception lounge and city outlook](https://cdn.01des.com/uploads/2026/08/20260822-230050-mRZCuetK.webp!dis)

Skyline Workscape reception lounge and city outlook — Studio Per

## Reading the office as landscape

Skyline Workscape is a 2,000-square-meter office in Guangdong, China, designed by Studio Per. Rather than arranging the tower floor around a structural core and elevator bank, the project reads those constraints as the plan of a house, giving each room its own light, elevation, and degree of enclosure within one continuous experience.

The idea of landscape has a history in office design. Quickborner Team’s Bürolandschaft mapped communication flow through open workplaces in late-1950s West Germany. Studio Per keeps the continuity but lets go of efficiency as the sole goal, moving closer to Adolf Loos’s Raumplan, where a few steps perform the work of a wall.

![Continuous sightlines connect the work settings](https://cdn.01des.com/uploads/2026/08/20260822-230103-M2XWX7je.webp!dis)

Continuous sightlines connect the work settings — Studio Per

![Materials and low furniture keep a residential scale](https://cdn.01des.com/uploads/2026/08/20260822-230105-uUGmwa3s.webp!dis)

Materials and low furniture keep a residential scale — Studio Per

## The entrance becomes a social room

A panoramic elevator opens directly into the Skyline Reception Lounge. Seating, a view, and a room already in use meet the visitor before any threshold is announced. A gently curving gallery then carries low furnishings, warm surfaces, and uninterrupted sightlines, giving circulation enough comfort and outlook to become a place to pause.

![The elevator arrives at Skyline Reception Lounge](https://cdn.01des.com/uploads/2026/08/20260822-230106-qPCekJ3v.webp!dis)

The elevator arrives at Skyline Reception Lounge — Studio Per

![A curving gallery draws the view inward](https://cdn.01des.com/uploads/2026/08/20260822-230108-3C77aZCX.webp!dis)

A curving gallery draws the view inward — Studio Per

![Furniture gives the circulation route a sense of pause](https://cdn.01des.com/uploads/2026/08/20260822-230110-PLmBI5TD.webp!dis)

Furniture gives the circulation route a sense of pause — Studio Per

## Library and executive workspace

At the center of the plan, a double-height library merges with the executive workspace. Full-height bookshelves rise through both levels, a sculptural spiral stair stitches them together, and the furniture belongs to a living room rather than a conventional office. The most private function is placed inside the building’s most visually open volume, with the stair taking on the ceremonial role normally assigned to a reception axis.

![The double-height library opens into the executive workspace](https://cdn.01des.com/uploads/2026/08/20260822-230111-hUaa6rgM.webp!dis)

The double-height library opens into the executive workspace — Studio Per

![Full-height shelves define the vertical scale](https://cdn.01des.com/uploads/2026/08/20260822-230112-5cyWyG4X.webp!dis)

Full-height shelves define the vertical scale — Studio Per

![The spiral stair becomes the spatial ritual center](https://cdn.01des.com/uploads/2026/08/20260822-230114-OS3hd5zo.webp!dis)

The spiral stair becomes the spatial ritual center — Studio Per

## Continuity in place of boundaries

Skyline Workscape does not reduce the office to an open-plan field of desks. It choreographs work, reception, and pause as a path experienced by the body. Changes in level, shelves, stairs, and furniture tune the balance between openness and privacy, allowing each room to keep its atmosphere while remaining in conversation with the next.

![Layered thresholds replace enclosed partitions](https://cdn.01des.com/uploads/2026/08/20260822-230115-2dsBux7C.webp!dis)

Layered thresholds replace enclosed partitions — Studio Per

![Residential scale brings the workplace closer to everyday life](https://cdn.01des.com/uploads/2026/08/20260822-230116-jtxA8z1e.webp!dis)

Residential scale brings the workplace closer to everyday life — Studio Per

![Sightlines hold the different scenes on one continuous line](https://cdn.01des.com/uploads/2026/08/20260822-230118-LBq4jR3k.webp!dis)

Sightlines hold the different scenes on one continuous line — Studio Per

> The office is no longer a set of rooms divided by efficiency, but a residential landscape choreographed by light, elevation, and everyday scale.

**Project credits**  
Project — Skyline Workscape  
Interior design — Studio Per  
Location — Guangdong, China  
Area — 2,000 m²  
Photography — Studio Per  
Original feature — Leibal  
Editorial adaptation — 01DES

**Categories:** Workspaces

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