Office · Barcelona · 2021

Cellular offices without losing the light

The interior design of a 200 m² office in Barcelona. The client needed enclosed offices, but the floor has daylight only along the façade.

The answer

Internal walls are glazed in aluminium frames, so façade light reaches the corridor and the inner rooms. The floor does not end in a dark core.

Privacy comes from banded film, denser at seated height. Seated, you are not overlooked; standing, and towards the ceiling, the space stays open — the room is enclosed, the floor is not.

The palette is pale oak and white, so nothing absorbs what little light there is. The reception desk is the one bespoke piece: a folded, faceted front with pale grey triangular fields — it meets the visitor and sets the direction of the space.

Colour is carried by a few points only. Yellow-green task chairs, an orange armchair in the waiting area, a single column painted green in the open office. Nothing beyond that was needed.

The ceiling is a suspended tile system, so lighting is built into it: a concealed cove above reception, suspended linear fittings over the desks. In the corner office an oak-veneered ceiling raft marks the meeting end, with no dropped services.

In the open office, low acoustic screens divide the run of desks — just high enough to stop speech carrying across the floor. Building photographs printed on canvas and image panels printed on glass hang on the walls.

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Data

Location: Barcelona, Spain
Year: 2021
Type: Office, full interior design
Area: 200 m²
Bespoke design: Reception desk
Status: Completed

Another view of reception: orange and beige armchairs in front of the glazed wall with banded film, the façade windows behind — The waiting area: the orange armchair is one of the colour points, the banded film denser at seated height.

Corner office: an oval meeting table under an oak-veneered ceiling raft with three circular fittings, white fitted storage alongside — The oak-veneered ceiling raft marks the meeting end — with no dropped services.

A single-person enclosed office: a white desk in front of the façade window, a yellow-green task chair, a building image printed on glass on the wall — A cellular office along the façade.

Open office with white desks, fabric desk screens and a column painted green beside the façade window — Acoustic screens help the acoustics in the open office.

Three workstations with white desks and yellow-green chairs, building photographs printed on canvas on the wall — Building photographs printed on acrylic glass on the walls.

An office glazed on two sides: a white desk in the corner, façade windows on both sides, a suspended linear fitting above — Pale oak and white are the dominant colours.

Photographs of the completed office

Ren Design is a Budapest interior design studio working across Europe and the Gulf. On this project the studio produced the full interior design for the office. For what a design package contains, see what you receive.