Berlin hosts this ultra office modern and minimalist, who has designed PLY Atelier for the architecture, engineering and consulting company Ramboll, striking a fair balance between social spaces and work areas, in order to offer diverse environments so that employees can choose when it comes to innovating and creating.
This industrial space, 1.400 m2, It is distributed over two independent floors, connected by stairs, which allowed creating Two levels with spaces for both common work and concentration tasks, as well as a flexible area where a wide variety of activities are carried out. workshops and events.
Minimal, industrial and brutalist office
Atelier PLY managed to create a very minimalist aesthetic, with a brutalist industrial point, leaving original elements of the building visible, such as the concrete walls, the brick and the ceiling vaults. Precisely, to hide the great height from floor to ceiling, some semi-curved structures which also help to improve the acoustics of the room.
Particularly striking is the table system anchored to a central element with slots that allow them to slide, join or separate them, depending on needs.
First floor
On the first floor, a work area was created with permanent and flexible positions y meeting rooms distributed throughout the space, as well as telephone booths of different sizes.
Along the façade with the large windows, small areas alternate with larger ones to carry out different tasks, but always in an open space: multipost, benches for 4 and 6 people, silent workstations with sound-absorbing enclosures and flexible tables.
Organization in cubes
The meeting rooms and telephone booths distributed throughout the plant are housed in four large cubes, of which the two central ones, with a coating of extended metal, They are completely enclosed and acoustically efficient.
The four cubes in the central area and the two rooms attached to the façade divide the entire space into work areas of different sizes.
Opposite view of the area of the bullion tables mobile, where fixed workstations were placed on shared tables of four. The cubes, on the left, separate both areas, which have large windows on the façade.
Different work areas
Inside one of the cubes, six more silent workstations were placed. In this room was installed sound absorbing material on the wall and ceiling, as well as on the dividers of the workstations, which in this way are also visually separated from each other.
Wardrobes, lockers and storage space are integrated into the elements of the space (for example, shelves in niches that are the central cubes) or attached to the wall in common areas.
Low level
On the ground floor, with direct access from the outside, is the reception area, several seating areas, two large kitchen counters, flexible workstations, large and small meeting rooms, and the large, flexibly separable workshop area.
Flexible workshop room
The workshop area is a large space with curtains that help both to darken the projection area and to isolate it from the rest of the office. He continuous polished cement pavement It helps to homogenize and unite all areas, whether social or work. In this plant, the touches of red They warm the space, combined with the omnipresent gray and the warm tone of the Pinewood, present on the benches.
And of course, plants
The key to this space, which at first glance may seem excessively cold and inhospitable, is the presence dotted with large vegetable masses, such as the vertical wall in the kitchen area, or the wooden dividing elements, which act as large flower pots.
