Beyond Space has created a flexible office interior for a security company in Amsterdam using a colourful grid system that allows the user to change the layout when needed.
Informed by an endless repeating grid system, the studio used a structure made from beams and columns to knit together two office floors.
Top: office interior by Beyond Space. Above: white aluminium beams and columns run throughout the interior
The rigid grid was constructed from aluminium to create a structural framework that gives the client the freedom to organise and reconfigure the space within it, by dismantling and moving walls as needed.
"Should the nature or ambitions of the company change, the grid offers flexibility. Walls can easily be dismantled and rebuilt on another point in the grid," Beyond Space said. Yellow-trimmed windows and doors frame private workspaces
Multicoloured trimmed doors and windows create privacy for workspaces and contrast against the rigid white framework. The studio also hoped the colour would emphasise the flexibility of the space.
"We wanted to put the emphasis on the fact that these doors and windows are infills in the grid and by making them a contrasting colour, the difference between the grid and the infills becomes clear," Beyond Space cofounder Stijn de Weerd told Dezeen.
Plants are encouraged to grow around and up the frame
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