February 6, 2023

Spark – Flex

  • Innovation

    • Interior Architecture Concept Design 5,300 SF

    Spark Flex is a hybrid of collaborative coworking and the traditional office. It is a workspace solution for organizations embracing the future of work.

    This solution provides workspaces that evolve with the changing workforce, with short-term leases, branded suites, and cutting-edge amenities. Spark Flex provides organizations a platform for productivity and collaboration.

    In a city whose foundation was built by the businesses that call Baltimore home, this coworking space uses inspiration from the past to cultivate supportive communities for the new business shaping the future.

    Spark Flex is the next evolution of the Spark brand, providing a highly amenitized experience for companies that have "graduated out of" Spark Coworking.



    The program called for the planning and design of ~2,000 SF suites which align with Spark Coworking brand and are organized, both vertically and horizontally, around shared amenity spaces such as a cafe, meeting areas, training rooms, podcast and quiet rooms.


    The Design Challenge

    Spark Flex is located on floors 3, 4 and 5, in a building constructed in 2000. Floors 3 and 4 are multi-tenant with Spark Flex being the single tenant on floor 5. In 2000, the developer had the foresight to identify the potential need for a connecting communication stair and provided the structural grid to do so; therefore, there was significant challenge to design around a predetermined grid while balancing out the program to work with the stair location, entry sequence and code requirements; then applying that same logic on all three floors, with the main amenity space located on the 4th floor.


    Spark Coworking was the first of its kind in Baltimore, providing a unique graduation space for the emerging tech based companies being spun out of Johns Hopkins, UMD, and The Emerging Technology Center, all hubs of innovation and economic vitality.


    In keeping with the Spark brand, Spark Flex is the next evolution of the local Spark Ecosystem. The unique nature of this brand is it's ownership by a developer landlord, thereby creating relationships, early on, with their tenant base.