We created a new kind of fresh meeting area, enabling both internal and customer meetings. The available spaces vary from semi-open and open spaces to meeting rooms of various sizes. The café at the heart of the atrium also serves as a waiting room for customers in the adjacent entrance lobby, and as an ad hoc work area. The terraced stand built into the atrium enables larger numbers of people to attend events and information bulletins. We also wanted to enable random and informal encounters and spontaneous innovation by means of smaller niches with smaller and modifiable furniture, making the most of the corner areas.

A high atrium with a glass ceiling requires acoustic solutions and, being very bright, encouraged us to add plenty of pot plants. The concept’s pop-up atmosphere is reflected in the plywood surfaces and a bar counter made of pallets. The gabled roof features, which dominate the atrium’s visual theme – a suitable artistic style for a construction company – are repeated in the acoustic panels, other surfaces and also in the “houses”, semi-open meeting rooms made of house frames.