IONDESIGN Berlin
Summary:
The Berlin subway is the conceptual inspiration for the German headquarter of the tech Start-Up TRIFACTA. The American Company’s new office in Berlin is full of individual character and incorporates the firm’s CI. This way, the new space becomes a corporate interior design. The open space desk area is kept in black-and-white whereas the communication areas are colorful and vibrant. Custom metal grids bring an industrial feel to the office space. Outdoor furniture is used in the interior and links it to Berlin’s public space. A huge custom wallpaper in the bistro depicts the entire map of Berlin’s subway and the signage for the meeting rooms cites subway signage.
The Project:
Industrial metal grids, an enormous subway map, colorful meeting rooms inspired by Berlin subway stations – TRIFACTA’s new office references the German capital which it is surrounded by.
The story of TRIFACTA begins in the year 2012 when the company is established in the USA. The fast growing Start-Up opens its first office in San Francisco and soon expands to Europe. In 2015, the Berlin office starts working. Soon, the data wrangling company grows out of their office in Berlin, which is when they contact IONDESIGN.
The first step in the project was to examine the floor plan of the new office and to elaborate different scenarios for the usage of the space. The concept for the new office focusses on the location in the heart of the German capital. The U-Bahn (subway) was the inspiration to create different meeting rooms with individual character. The interior design is inspired by U-Bahn stations which correspond to the corporate colors of the company: orange, blue and green. The open space area is kept in neutral colors. The dark carpet, table frames, chairs and containers create a visual unit. The desktops, the lighting and the metal grids above the desks are white. The consistent design creates visual peace and structures the open space desk area to
