House Encounters makes use of mushy partitions to divide spacious Flowpolis workplace in Amsterdam

Translucent curtains and rows of white columns assist to divide however not phase this real-estate workplace in Amsterdam, designed by native studio House Encounters.

House Encounters created the house inside Tripolis, an Aldo Van Eyck-designed workplace complicated characterised by faceted towers and primary-coloured home windows.

Situated within the bustling borough of Amsterdam-Zuid, the 550 square-metre workspace, named Flowpolis, supplies a house for property developer Move Actual Property.

The problem for the architects was to divide up the generously sized workplace with out shedding the sense of spaciousness. They did this with a mixture of open partitions and moveable, translucent curtains.

“[Space] is a uncommon prevalence in places of work these days, the place it appears a race to the underside has began with regards to the quantity of sq. metres per individual,” defined the studio.

“So to maintain the workplace’s massive scale noticeable however incorporate ranges of intimacy on the identical time, we assigned every house its personal id and divided them utilizing semi-transparent curtains.”

Staff enter the workplace by way of a cerulean-blue walkway, illuminated by LED strip lighting included alongside the ceiling line and the ground. A curtain of plastic flaps, akin to what may very well be seen in an industrial manufacturing unit, is suspended on the finish.

“The tunnel features as a psychological reset: it encapsulates the customer and frames the doorway of the workplace with vibrant tones of color and light-weight,” stated the architects.

Translucent curtains seem once more across the break room, which tapers off to some extent. It is anchored by a plywood kitchen with emerald-coloured models and a protracted communal desk.

Within the adjoining major workspace, the white-painted columns assist a system of high-level partitions, which divide the house with out blocking views. The partitions cease in need of the excessive ceilings, to assist make the house “extra tangible and relatable to human scale”.

Dotted all through are brilliant inexperienced armchairs the place employees can have informal conferences, or they’ll alternatively escape to boardrooms which can be closed off by black-framed panels of glazing.

A handful of quirky gadgets add character, together with a tv set inside an arched timber quantity, a grand piano, desk tennis and a punching bag the place employees can de-stress.

A espresso machine additionally perches on a chunky marble island counter.

“The fabric pallet holds an experimental edge to it with every space contrasting each other,” added the studio.

House Encounters is headed up by Gijs Baks, Stijn de Weerd, Joost Baks and Remi Versteeg. Again in 2016 the studio accomplished one other workplace in Amsterdam, which options greenery-filled glasshouses that double-up as assembly rooms.

Earlier this 12 months it additionally created an workplace in Utrecht, the place tropical crops sprouting up from tiled partition partitions present additional privateness to employees at their desks.

Venture credit:

Venture crew: Joost Baks, Stijn de Weerd, Gijs Baks, Remi Versteeg, Esther Bentvelsen, Giulia Tomaselli
Inside fit-out: Roord Binnenbouw, Amsterdam
Contract furnishings: Lensvelt, Breda
Lighting: Invent Design, Amsterdam
Vegetation: Het Groenlab, Amsterdam