Project Synchroon

The closed office appears to be a thing of the past and an open layout has become the standard. However, attaining this open feeling requires specific interior strategies to overthrow the question if it really is an open space. Division and hierarchy of some areas can create a pleasant notion, but when the space is separated too much we end up sacrificing the open atmosphere.

 

As a result of this, many ‘open’ office interiors quickly close up with all kinds of ‘measures’ to combat the daily reality of the newly acquired openness. This dynamism probes the paradoxical question that lies within the open layout: how can a single interior be both open and closed?

 

In response to this contradiction, we divided the walls horizontally in two. At the bottom a sustainable solid, tiled wall of one meter high that defines each space and provides all technical facilities. Flourishing above is a lush world of over 750 plants that filter the visual relations like a green veil: soft, living and translucent. The entire office was then divided into a number of independent ‘rooms’ of different sizes in accordance with this dual wall principle. These rooms are then filled with different types of furniture: a layer of color and warmth for public spaces and meeting rooms contrasts with the muted neutral layer for the individual workplaces.