DESIGN NAME: Philips Lighting China HQ
PRIMARY FUNCTION: Office
INSPIRATION: The interior design of corporate headquarters office has its own uniqueness: the design should not only take care all the functional purposes, but also signify and represent the unique cultural image of a leading international company in lighting industry. And moreover, the atmosphere, the structural lines, layout and the quality are the best way to showcase its unique corporate culture.
UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Designer offers a big screen wall with a semitransparent illuminated glass installation. This installation includes no expensive or fancy materials, but glass, aluminum plate, and paint, equipped with Philips high technology which can sync lights with tunable color and brightness the ambience of outdoor nature and provides the indoor space with the effect of natural lights. This solution of a screen wall not only polishes up the taste and visual line of the hall space but also hides the functional spaces. The illuminated wall demonstrating the vision of Philips Lighting and attracts each visitor’s attention.
In order to display the corporate cultural image, the solution incorporates carefully Philips Lighting high end technology into the design process. Beside the luminous glass wall, the dotted luminous ceiling is also a piece of artwork to enlighten the workspace environment. The dots are changing from big to small size in an artistic pattern, paralleled with the glass wall, which makes visitors feel refreshing visually and emotionally.
OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION: Ben Goh and Jane Chen, founders of BNJN Design, each with multi-disciplinary experiences in architectural and interior design practices, say that the interior design of corporate headquarters office has its own uniqueness—the design should not only take care all the functional purposes, but also signify and represent the unique cultural image of a leading international company in lighting industry. And moreover, the atmosphere, the structural lines, layout and the quality are the best way to showcase its unique corporate culture.
PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION: The project started in March 2017 and finished in January 2018, and located in shanghai.
FITS BEST INTO CATEGORY: Interior Space and Exhibition Design
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PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY: Wood veneer, aluminum plate, Acoustical board
SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES: Area: 9771 square meters
TAGS: interior design,headquarters office,corporate culture,illuminated wall,dotted luminous ceiling,luminous textile panel
RESEARCH ABSTRACT: BNJN Design conducts conscientiously in-depth researches and investigations for each project. When designer Ben Goh reads the word "Light Beyond Illumination", it suddenly inspires him that in the age of Internet of Things lighting does not only mean lights, but data, things, people, spaces, landscape, software, environment…and moreover, it is the future. For Philips lighting, light means more potentials, values, and possibilities in people lives, which go far beyond illumination. So that’s the very core and vision of its brand, which are well integrated in the interior design.
CHALLENGE: How to express and strengthen the corporate culture in the design process? This is a common challenge for all design projects.
In the interior design project at Philips Lighting HQ, there is a big issue in the original hall space: the length of the entrance was only less than 10 meters, but its width is approximately 31 meters, and the functional spaces like elevator and restroom are in the central area, the door is facing right to the vacant space through 2nd floor and nothing can be hidden, and also, the entrance is not in a central position…
Just like all daring ideas, it’s vital for designer to persuade the client with confidence and extensive expertise. One setback in the mockup phase is now challenging the designer: one whole plate of wall-size glass is not available. It means more than one piece is needed, and the seam is unavoidable. The client is therefore hesitant about the design.
ADDED DATE: 2018-09-11 05:16:05
TEAM MEMBERS (4) : Ben Goh, Jane Chen, Lu Li and ZhengFeng Duan
IMAGE CREDITS: Jun Sun
WenJie Hu
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