Golden A' Design Award Winner 2020
This interior photograph captures a contemporary office environment divided into two distinct zones by a vertical glass partition with a dark blue frame running from floor to ceiling at the composition's center. Beginning with the left portion, the foreground presents warm honey-colored oak plank flooring that continues throughout the visible space, its grain pattern suggesting smooth, lightly lacquered wood pleasant underfoot. A soft grey area rug, approximately rectangular and textured like plush wool, anchors a seating arrangement. Upon this rug sits a bright yellow armchair the color of sunflowers, its fabric appearing soft and welcoming, positioned beside a larger teal-grey wingback chair with decorative cushions. A small natural wood side table and a playful ottoman designed to resemble a watermelon, green striped exterior with pink top suggesting the fruit's flesh, add character. Tall green plants including feathery bamboo fronds and sculptural cacti bring organic life. The back wall, finished in smooth grey concrete, displays a large rectangular abstract painting featuring a grid of colorful brushstrokes in reds, blues, greens, yellows, and purples against white, creating a joyful mosaic effect. Above, the ceiling remains industrially exposed with grey concrete surface, red fire suppression piping, and long white linear light fixtures casting even, cool illumination. The right portion reveals a dramatically different atmosphere: angular wooden panels in warm cherry and golden tones cover both ceiling and walls in geometric faceted planes that feel like being inside a wooden crystal. Spherical pendant lights in amber, clear, and frosted glass hang at varying heights. A white marble conference table stretches horizontally, surrounded by deep teal upholstered chairs on chrome swivel bases. The overall impression balances creative warmth with professional sophistication.
Terrafertil plays on the relationship between the workplace and physical environment. Between nature and health and how design can become a tool for wellness. Our design is inspired by the fluidity and materiality of our surroundings. The form found through organic efficiencies that could be represented in the space. The office composition was a mix of open and closed spaces that mimic the organic growth which one finds in nature. Wood forms that draped throughout the space were created to reminisce on nature’s organic growth and define space.