The Floating Ribbon Interiérový design kanceláří by MAIA - MAI Atelier Limited

The Floating Ribbon Interiérový design kanceláří by MAIA - MAI Atelier Limited is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 Bronzová cena A' Design Award in Interiér Competition Category.

BronzInteriér· 2023

The Floating Ribbon Interiérový design kanceláří

by MAIA - MAI Atelier Limited

Client: Hutchison Ports

Bronzová cena A' Design Award Winner in Interiér Category

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The Design

About The Floating Ribbon Interiérový design kanceláří

Plovoucí stuha je kancelářský interiér vytvořený jako centrální řídicí sídlo pro společnost provozující přístavy na pěti kontinentech. Pracovní prostor zaujímá podlouhlou skladovou budovu u vodní hladiny, kde si pět týmů dělí jeden otevřený půdorys. Velký zakřivený stropní prvek, nazvaný Plovoucí stuha, sjednocuje společné prostory a propojuje jednotlivé týmy. Otevřený strop je nastříkán tmavě modrou barvou nad sdílenými prostory a tmavě šedou nad pracovními zónami. Nábytek je integrován s centrální řadou sloupů.

The Recognition

About the Bronzová cena A' Design Award

The Floating Ribbon Interiérový design kanceláří je vítězem Bronzové ceny A' Design Award, vysoce prestižního uznání udělovaného vynikajícím designům, které se vyznačují kreativitou, vynalézavostí a bystrostí. Bronzoví vítězové jsou hojně zručné a nápadně kreativní artefakty, které dosvědčují rozsáhlé zkušenosti, představivost a vynalézavost svých designérů. Očekává se, že The Floating Ribbon Interiérový design kanceláří bude vysoce ceněným, obdivovaným a milovaným předmětem, pozoruhodně profesionálním a inovativním. Tento design, který získal Bronzovou cenu A' Design Award, zahrnuje osvědčené postupy v umění, vědě, designu a technologiích a vyniká pozorností k detailu. The Floating Ribbon Interiérový design kanceláří nádherně uspokojuje potřeby, dotýká se tužeb, okouzluje city a oslovuje zvědavost.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: The space is for a HQ management hub to operate worldwide ports globally in 5 continents. The design brings 5 teams co-sharing a warehouse linear space organically under a Floating Ribbon. Acted as a spatial definition, it unifies all communal spaces & links teams strategically together. The design encourages teammates sharing ideas and fosters collaborations all times. In Post COVID-pandemic, the strong identity gives communal space a pivotal role in the rebuild-up of teammates' relationship.
Dimensions & Packaging: -
Tags: The Floating Ribbon
Production Technology: The Ribbon well defines the Public and Work Zones by having the open ceiling spray-painted into two colors - navy blue for the continuous communal spaces and dark grey for the generic work space, identity further enhanced.

Office furniture at each communal space are made in bold soften geometry and well-integrated on existing central row of columns. On one hand, each furniture floats at its own spaces and serves for its designated function, responding to the Floating Ribbon above. On the other hand, the design plays down the physical presence of the row of columns located at centre of the entire office space, and alters their perception from bulky volumes into functional spaces.
Design Challenge: -
Research: Design responds to :

- Office space under COVID shadow
- New dimension for inhouse Co-working space
- How Corporate Culture to reflect in design
- Office Identity
Inspiration: Located by the waterfront in a warehouse building, the design responses to the brief having five teams co-sharing the industrial rectilinear space under one unique grand Floating Ribbon ceiling, of its form reflecting the Port business and its ocean culture. Instead of departmental organisation in traditional offices, the design turns it into a collaborative open plan, unifying multiple communal lounges into one continuous organic space so as to foster daily interaction and creativities.
Project Duration: The project started in 2021 Sep and finished in 2022 Mar.
Operation Flow: Work place design concerns more about well-being, socialisation and life-balance, rather than purely efficiency and quantities. Epidemic prevention policy and business lockdown have alter drastically the need and scale of communal spaces in the city as well as in commercial office. These conditions and social distancing generate huge need to develop more safer indoor spaces for daily lunch, online meetings with collaborators and socialisation with each other. The organic Ribbon space is responded well under the current global environment. The pandemic reduces the city mobility locally and globally, however it won't limit creativity and social desires in daily living and work

The design is a mix of the contemporary commercial aesthetic and the industrial mood inherited from terminal ports, which reflect well the culture of the international global company.
Patents: -
Team Members: Brian Y.C. Fok
Henrique W. Chan
Cecily S.Y. Ngai
Image Credits: -