Gold Interior Space and Exhibition Design · 2018
Puls Workplace Design Office Design
- A' Design Award 2018 Gold Winner in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Awarded April 15, 2018
- CLIENT: Evolution Design
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About Puls Workplace Design Office Design
The German engineering company Puls moved to new premises and used this opportunity for visualizing and stimulating a new collaboration culture within the company. The new office design is driving a cultural change, with teams reporting a significant increase in internal communication, particularly between research and development and other departments. The company has also seen a rise in spontaneous informal meetings, known to be one of the key indicators of success in research and development innovation.
Evolution Design's Puls Workplace Design Office Design emerges from the contemporary discourse surrounding activity-based working environments, where spatial transparency and chromatic psychology converge to support diverse modes of professional engagement. The design demonstrates sophisticated command of color theory, deploying a carefully calibrated palette that transitions from energizing orange and yellow accents in active zones to warmer terracotta and sienna tones in reflective lounge spaces, creating intuitive wayfinding through chromatic coding rather than explicit signage. Technical achievement manifests in the seamless integration of glass partition systems that maintain visual connectivity across the floorplate while acoustic ceiling treatments ensure appropriate sound management for concentrated work. The curved glass element defining the lounge area introduces organic geometry within the predominantly orthogonal framework, softening the institutional character while establishing a distinct threshold between circulation and respite. Material selection reveals thoughtful consideration of durability, maintenance, and sensory experience, from the practical carpet tiles accommodating heavy foot traffic to the tactile warmth of natural wood accent furniture. The sheer curtain panels merit particular attention for their ability to modulate daylight while introducing domestic warmth into the professional environment, their gradated coloration echoing and extending the orange-to-neutral transitions established by architectural surfaces. Pendant lighting in the lounge zone creates intimate scale within the open volume, its black exterior and warm interior providing both visual anchor and functional illumination appropriate to informal gathering. The design successfully navigates the contemporary workplace tension between transparency and privacy, collaboration and concentration, demonstrating how thoughtful spatial planning and material articulation can support organizational culture while honoring individual experience. One might consider how the warmth of this environment reflects evolving attitudes toward workplace hospitality and employee wellbeing.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- Puls is a German high tech engineering company, which invests significant resources in research and development. The company considers their employees to be key to its ongoing success. Therefore, the HR department commissioned a new staff-centered workplace design to move the company culture away from islands of lonely workers towards a networked community. The design of the new workplace creates the optimal environment for this cultural change.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- 3300 m2 over two floors. 130 workstations.
- Tags
- office, interior, workplace, evolution design, engineering, Munich
- Production Technology
- Important part of the design was graphic concept for the walls. Based on the electrical components and the products that Puls produces, Evolution Design developed individual and unique graphic for each space. A special graphic was made for the Trust wall, which is built of individual words of what trust means to each employee. Additionally, an artist was commissioned to create one wall with a comic story of the past events of the company and great stories that everybody remembers.
- Design Challenge
- One of the main aims of the project was to increase communication and collaboration: unfortunately the existing building had only very unattractive fire escape staircase connecting the two floors. It took a lot of special structural and fire safety engineering as well as a lot of persuasion to get the building owner to agree to our new open internal staircase. Without it the project aims would have not been achievable.
- Project Duration
- The project started in April 2016 in Munich and was complete in March 2017.
- Operation Flow
- The work environment is developed around the concept of a small village. Each team is located in a distinct neighborhood, with individual colors and a bold graphic concept defining and demarcating the space and helping to navigate and orientate within the office. Each team uses their neighborhood for fast and easy interaction between them. For a wider collaboration everybody meets in the village marketplace.
- Research
- The move into a new office space was seen by Puls as a great opportunity to visualize and stimulate a new collaboration culture within the company. Many interactive and creative workshops were held with the staff to find out what would improve creativity, collaboration and innovation. These findings were the basis for the workplace design and many further organizational changes within the company. At a later stage, the staff tested all furniture items in a special prototyping room.
- Inspiration
- Puls seems themselves as a family living together in a small village: a tightly connected community where everyone knows each other, every team member has their own home, but there are also common areas for everyone to get together. The workplace design reflects this culture and focuses on connecting different departments to foster better teamwork and more direct communication: research and development, engineering and manufacturing teams are now closely connected with sales and marketing.
- Image Credits
- Image #1: Photographer Peter Wuermli, 2017. Image #2: Photographer Peter Wuermli, 2017. Image #3: Photographer Peter Wuermli, 2017. Image #4: Photographer Peter Wuermli, 2017. Image #5: Photographer Peter Wuermli, 2017.
- Patents
- Copyrights belong to Evolution Design, 2017
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