Design studio Beyond Space has created an office interior in Amsterdam that doubles as a showroom using rippling laser-cut fabric to form cave-like spaces for working.
Created for Siersema Interieur, a studio that specialises in fabrics, Beyond Space looked to the nearby IJ-river to inform the design of the office in the Netherlands.
Top: the interior was blanketed in fabric. Above: fabric has an ocean hue
The studio used one kilometre of semi-sheer fabric across the interior to create curtains with a rippling effect that mimics the movement of water.
Layers of fabric in a pale blue-green hue are hung vertically and draped from the room's high ceiling.
The floor has a grey tone
Six spaces are formed out of the multiple layers of fabric, including a collection of workspaces and meeting rooms organised around the edge of the space in order to maximise natural daylight. The semi-sheer polyester was laser-cut at different lengths and shapes to prevent any potential fraying.
Openings and archways connect the workspaces, and the curtains are cut short around communal areas and left longer in more private zones.
Work spaces work organised along the edges of the office
The fabric was fitted with chord-weights in places to create the desired ripple effect.
"We made dozens of designs to get the proportion between closed and open space exactly right," Beyond Space founders Remi Versteeg and Stijn de Weerdtold Dezeen.
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