Ministry of Design creates shared workplace areas in YTL Headquarters

Marble-clad columns and bronze detailing line the hovering entrance foyer that Ministry of Design has created for the YTL Headquarters in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

It’s considered one of a number of shared areas created by Ministry of Design within the Malaysian development firm YTL‘s new workplace skyscraper by Kohn Pedersen Fox, which mixes all of its employees departments in a single place for the primary time.

Alongside the enormous entrance space, the studio has created an oak-lined cafe and three storeys of various assembly areas shared by 1,000 YTL workers.

“The temporary for Ministry of Design was to design the general public areas shared by these departments,” the studio defined.

“As such, Ministry of Design sought to create a sequence of choreographed spatial experiences which purpose to stability YTL’s legacy of company professionalism with a future-forward perspective that embraces change.”

The YTL Headquarters’ entrance foyer is positioned at floor degree and measures 25 metres in peak.

Ministry of Design’s aim was to boost the “majestic” high quality of this huge house whereas guaranteeing it was welcoming and human in scale.

To attain this, the studio developed a restrained materials palette, dominated by the hovering, white columns clad in Bugatsa marble that run the size of the foyer.

Flooring-to-ceiling home windows are positioned behind the columns to light up them and maximise pure gentle all through the day, whereas making the house “glow like a lantern within the night”.

To obscure the peak of the columns, each is punctured by rectangular insets and bronze accents, whereas a cloud-like set up hangs between them.

Cushioned benches that mimic Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona chairs have additionally been slotted between the columns at flooring degree, framed by tall, gridded constructions constituted of bronze.

The foyer is full with a intentionally symmetrical raise space at its rear, accessed by way of turnstiles and framed by an announcement bronze doorway.

This supplies non-public entry to YTL Headquarter’s higher ranges, together with the workplace cafe, numerous assembly areas and a perform room by Ministry of Design.

Ministry of Design’s improvement of the cafe and assembly areas are supposed as an extension of the foyer space, that includes a complementary materials palette however with hotter tones.

Within the cafe, this features a tough, grey-granite counter with a cultured black-granite worktop, set in opposition to a backdrop of bronze wall-mounted cabinets and oak-lined partitions.

Oak has additionally been used to line the partitions and ceilings of the assembly areas, which cater for small and huge, non-public to non-private gatherings.

Ministry of Design achieved this by way of the mixture of communal tables and open areas, alongside enclosed assembly rooms and acoustically-private areas.

Within the open, shared assembly areas, the oak partitions type a backdrop to black powder-coated lighting and seating upholstered with impartial Saum & Viebahn textiles.

Silver mink marble flooring traces the ground, whereas black Nero Marquina and chic white Calacatta marble are used throughout the tabletops.

The non-public assembly areas are full with softer furnishings and finishes, together with brown-leather chairs, carpet flooring and timber tables.

The assembly areas are full with an announcement spiral stair at their coronary heart, which connects them to the cafe. It’s lined with leather-based handrails which might be enveloped by slats of powder-coated bronze and positioned on prime of a mattress of black gravel.

Ministry of Design is an structure and inside design studio that was based in 2004 by Colin Seah. Its headquarters are in Singapore, and it has two extra places of work in Beijing and Kuala Lumpur.

Different latest tasks by the agency embody an all-white co-living house referred to as Canvas Home, a futuristic sports activities retailer in Singapore Airport and a robotic coaching facility lined with steel and tube lights.

Pictures is by David Yeow.

Venture credit:

Ministry of Design crew: Colin Seah, Joyce Low, Ruth Chong, Kevin Leong , Damien Saive, Namrata Mehta, Fai Suvisith, Justin Lu, Zhang Cling, Maggie Lek, Kaye Mojica, Richard Herman, Rais Rahman, Tasminah Ali and Azilawanti Wati
Architectural design: Kohn Pedersen Fox
Associates design: Syarikat Pembenaan Yeoh Tiong Lay Sdn Bhd
Architect of report: Veritas Design Group
Foyer artwork: Leaves by Studio Sawada Design Co Ltd