The Floating Ribbon Tlhophiso ya Kahare ya Ofisi by MAIA - MAI Atelier Limited

The Floating Ribbon Tlhophiso ya Kahare ya Ofisi by MAIA - MAI Atelier Limited is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 Moputso oa Boronse oa A' Design Award in Moralo wa Sebaka sa Ka Hare le Dipontsho Competition Category.

BoronseKa Hare· 2023

The Floating Ribbon Tlhophiso ya Kahare ya Ofisi

by MAIA - MAI Atelier Limited

Client: Hutchison Ports

Moputso oa Boronse oa A' Design Award Winner in Ka Hare Category

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The Design

About The Floating Ribbon Tlhophiso ya Kahare ya Ofisi

Molepe o Fofang ke tlhophiso ya kahare ya ofisi e entsweng jwalo ka setsi sa taolo sa ntlo-kgolo bakeng sa k'hamphani e sebetsang diporong tse ho dikontinente tse hlano. Sebaka sa mosebetsi se nka moaho o otlolohileng wa polokelo o pel'a metsi, moo dihlopha tse hlano di arolelanang moralo o le mong o bulehileng. Karolo e kgolo e kgokgotheng ya siling, e bitswang Molepe o Fofang, e kopanya dibaka tse arolelanwang mmoho le ho hokahanya dihlopha hammoho. Siling e bulehileng e pentilwe ka mmala o mosootho o botenya (navy blue) ka hodima dibaka tse arolelanwang, le mmala o motsho o mosootho ka hodima dibaka tsa mosebetsi. Fenetjhara e kopantswe le mola o bohareng wa dikholomo.

The Recognition

About the Moputso oa Boronse oa A' Design Award

The Floating Ribbon Tlhophiso ya Kahare ya Ofisi ke mohapi oa Moputso oa Boronse oa A' Design Award, kananelo e hlomphehang haholo e fuoang meralo e ikhethang e tsejoang ka boqapi, bohlale ba ho qapa le bohlale. Bahapi ba Boronse ke lintho tse nang le bokhoni ka ho felletseng le boqapi bo hlollang tse tiisang boiphihlelo bo bongata, mohopolo le bokhoni ba ho iphumana ba baqapi ba tsona. The Floating Ribbon Tlhophiso ya Kahare ya Ofisi e lebelletsoe ho ba ntho e hlomphuoang haholo, e ratoang le e ratehang, e nang le boprofeshenale bo bonahalang le mehopolo e mecha. Moralo ona o hapileng Moputso oa Boronse oa A' Design Award o kenyelletsa mekhoa e metle ka ho fetesisa bonong, mahlaleng, moralong le theknolojing mme o hlahella ka ho tsepamisa maikutlo lintlheng tse nyenyane. The Floating Ribbon Tlhophiso ya Kahare ya Ofisi e kutloisisa litlhoko hantle, e ama litakatso, e hapa maikutlo mme e tsosa takatso ea ho tseba.

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: -