MODELON
Immersive color establishes levels of privacy in the workspace.
The studio designed the new 3,400 sq. ft. Ann Arbor office for Modelon with goals of layering brand with tactile architectural elements that perform spatially with creating visual impact.
Completed in February 2021, the programming and blending of uses to avoid confined areas was critical for efficient use of the space. Curtains in the open space and meeting rooms allow users to control visual connection and privacy. The textile layers simultaneously partition and dampen acoustics. This flexibility enables the project to configure into several types of space reducing the construction of permanent walls for an economical and efficient use of space.
Each meeting room is an immersive color inspired by the company’s Swedish origins and cultural practice of using color to brighten the long winter nights.
Brand colors repeat in small cadences including the steel grid structures for lights, furniture, and millwork. The project utilized required components as design features as a strategic output of the low budget project. Such as in the start-up industry and venture capital, there is a desire to run lean and innovative in these stages of development and the design team replicated this strategy through the interior design.
Standing and hanging elements are combined with other required systems in order to minimize unneeded clutter. One example of this is through the LED lighting integrated on the suspended orange frame to the left. Working with GreenPath Design for engineering, systems were integrated into the existing concrete pan joist structure.
