Workplace · 90 desks
RailtownStudio
A floor for ninety people who used to have assigned desks.
- Where
- Railtown
- Year
- 2023
- Size
- 1,150 m²
- Scope
- Workplace
- Duration
- 10 months
- Led by
- Theo Marchand, Elise Carter
The brief
The team was moving from fixed desks to a mix of benching, booths and quiet rooms. We left the services exposed, hung felt discs where people gather, and used the carpet to mark a clear path from the lift to every zone.
Colour goes only where people stop to talk: the lounge ceiling, the booth seating, a few chairs. Everything else is concrete, timber and charcoal, so the floor is as calm at nine in the morning as it is at six in the evening.
The move that made it
A cloud of felt discs over the lounge, in the client’s colours. It cut the echo by half.
What we specified
- Acoustic felt discs in the client’s colours
- Carpet tile in three patterns, used as wayfinding
- Exposed services painted charcoal
- Oak-topped benching for 90 desks
- Curved black phone booths