The Floating Ribbon Design d'intérieur de bureaux by MAIA - MAI Atelier Limited

The Floating Ribbon Design d'intérieur de bureaux by MAIA - MAI Atelier Limited is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award de Bronze in Design d'Intérieur Competition Category.

BronzeIntérieur· 2023

The Floating Ribbon Design d'intérieur de bureaux

by MAIA - MAI Atelier Limited

Client: Hutchison Ports

A' Design Award de Bronze Winner in Intérieur Category

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The Design

About The Floating Ribbon Design d'intérieur de bureaux

Le Floating Ribbon est un aménagement intérieur de bureaux conçu comme centre de gestion du siège d'une entreprise exploitant des ports sur cinq continents. L'espace de travail occupe un entrepôt linéaire situé en bord d'eau, où cinq équipes partagent un même plateau ouvert. Un vaste élément de plafond incurvé, appelé le Floating Ribbon, unifie les espaces communs et relie les équipes entre elles. Le plafond ouvert est peint au pistolet en bleu marine au-dessus des espaces partagés et en gris foncé au-dessus des zones de travail. Le mobilier est intégré à la rangée centrale de colonnes.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Bronze

The Floating Ribbon Design d'intérieur de bureaux est lauréat de l'A' Design Award de Bronze, une reconnaissance hautement prestigieuse décernée à des designs remarquables qui se distinguent par leur créativité, leur ingéniosité et leur sagacité. Les lauréats Bronze sont des artefacts amplement habiles et d'une créativité frappante, qui authentifient la vaste expérience, l'imagination et l'ingéniosité de leurs concepteurs. The Floating Ribbon Design d'intérieur de bureaux est censé être un objet très estimé, admiré et chéri, remarquablement professionnel et innovant. Ce design lauréat de l'A' Design Award de Bronze intègre les meilleures pratiques de l'art, de la science, du design et de la technologie, et est excellent par son souci du détail. The Floating Ribbon Design d'intérieur de bureaux satisfait admirablement les besoins, touche les désirs, charme les sentiments et attire la curiosité.

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: -