The Floating Ribbon Deseño de Interiores de Oficina by MAIA - MAI Atelier Limited is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award de Bronce in Deseño de Espazos Interiores e de Exposición Competition Category.
BronceInteriorismo· 2023
The Floating Ribbon Deseño de Interiores de Oficina
Client: Hutchison Ports
A' Design Award de Bronce Winner in Interiorismo Category
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About The Floating Ribbon Deseño de Interiores de Oficina
O Floating Ribbon é un deseño de interiores de oficina creado como centro de xestión da sede central dunha empresa que opera portos en cinco continentes. O espazo de traballo ocupa un edificio de almacén lineal xunto á beira da auga, onde cinco equipos comparten unha planta aberta. Un gran elemento curvo de teito, denominado Floating Ribbon, unifica as áreas comúns e conecta os equipos entre si. O teito aberto está pintado con pistola en azul mariño sobre os espazos compartidos e en gris escuro sobre as zonas de traballo. O mobiliario está integrado coa fila central de columnas.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award de Bronce
The Floating Ribbon Deseño de Interiores de Oficina gañou o A' Design Award de Bronce, un recoñecemento altamente prestixioso outorgado a deseños sobresaíntes que se distinguen pola creatividade, o enxeño e a sagacidade. Os gañadores Bronce son artefactos amplamente hábiles e sorprendentemente creativos que autentican a vasta experiencia, imaxinación e enxeño dos seus deseñadores. Espérase que The Floating Ribbon Deseño de Interiores de Oficina sexa un obxecto moi apreciado, admirado e querido, notablemente profesional e innovador. Este deseño gañador do A' Design Award de Bronce incorpora as mellores prácticas da arte, a ciencia, o deseño e a tecnoloxía, e é excelente pola súa atención ao detalle. The Floating Ribbon Deseño de Interiores de Oficina satisfai espléndidamente as necesidades, toca os desexos, encanta os sentimentos e atrae a curiosidade.
Behind the Design
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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
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- 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
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- 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
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- Team Members
- Brian Y.C. Fok
Henrique W. Chan
Cecily S.Y. Ngai - Image Credits
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