DESIGN NAME: B. Braun Taiwan
PRIMARY FUNCTION: Office
INSPIRATION: The owner envisioned the brand-new office to have an open-plan that encourages communication and interaction, and as the company is in the medical industry, the design also strives to present an overall sense of simplicity and brightness, as well as shaping a healthy working environment.Therefore, we are defined the interior with partition-free open space, where the exterior vista and changes of seasons is brought in to fuse with every part of the interior.
UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION: As we have always placed premium on the functionality of space, and the interaction between people and space, we are aspired to realize such vision in this office domain.After removed the previous closed-off solid-wall partitioning to open up the entire space, through the use of glass partitioning and office furniture, we seek to define the program of each individual area, which, in turn, develops its own functionality.this project is made of individual spaces of multiple functionalities.
OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION: When the interior of the new office was being done, the original warehouse, located on the 12th floor, is to be converted to the temporary office space, which is to be restored, once the new office interior is completed. Considering the would-be difficulty in maintaining the square carpeting of the previous office floor space, due to high maintenance required, as well as Taiwan’s damp climate, we eventually decided to opt for scratch-proof floorboard, and furthermore, the client wishes to create a working environment filled with home-like comfort, however, in order to meet the growing needs of staff increase, we have also planned for the flexibility in adding seats in the future.
PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION: December, 2017
Taipei, Taiwan
FITS BEST INTO CATEGORY: Interior Space and Exhibition Design
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PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY: Fiber-board, stainless steel, iron metal work, white-colored glass, manmade rock, square carpet, scratch-proof floorboard.
SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES: Located on the 9th floor of an office tower, with an area of 570 square meter.
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RESEARCH ABSTRACT: The client is the Taiwan Branch Office of a German company in the industries of medical machinery and equipment, medicine import and sales, founded in 1989, which is echoed with the marked “1989” stationery cabinets. The lobby ceiling and flooring, coupled with the curved path into the visitor and staff areas on both sides of the entrance lobby, defines the public and private domains of the interior space with an elegant and classic manner. In addition to the predominantly white and grey tone space, we brought in a touch of green and purple, key ingredient in the brand corporate visual identity, which preserves the company’s embrace of pure, bright and healthy ambiance, within the industrial styling articulation.The staffs have no fixed seating arrangement in this office, as they have to retrieve their personal working suitcases and make their seating arrangement for every day with freedom and creativity, as large dimension of the working suitcases can creatively work with white-glass cladded on the interior columns to create its own enclave for working and meeting. As we chose to not use the conventional office furniture, but bring out the corporate energy through an organic network of working spaces which created a brand-new sense of creativity and freedom for the staffs to shape their own working life every day.
CHALLENGE: (1) As the adjustable table in the working area is to be made adjustable individually, we need to work with our furniture makers to tailor-made this unique furniture system.
(2) In order to provide quiet environment for phone conversation, either on phone, or face-to-face, in an open environment, we built 3 individual acoustically sound-proof phone booths and meeting rooms, which became one of our main challenges in design.
(3)As the top management of this client is German national who envisages a completely open working space, which have posed some psychological challenges at work, so at the early planning stage, there was indeed much time spent in communicating this idea through to the staffs for their eventual acceptance.
ADDED DATE: 2018-02-26 01:40:46
TEAM MEMBERS (5) : Wan Pu, Sung, Max Huang, Jacob Hsu, Amber Yeh and
IMAGE CREDITS: Wan Pu Sung, 2017.
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