A white resin ribbon cuts a curving path
through an office for a digital creative agency, seating all 125 employees and
rising into occasional arches filled with storage niches. Finished in a
gleaming gloss like a surfboard, the ‘Superdesk‘ eliminates the need for
cubicles and creates semi-private spaces for meetings.
Designed by Clive Wilkinson Architects for
New York City-based The Barbarian Group, the structure turns furniture into
architecture, complete with roofs, dividing up a large warehouse-like space
into smaller and more intimate sections.
The arches direct foot traffic through the
space, while the continuous design creates a dialogue between different
divisions of the company, an effect that architect Wilkinson describes as
“making a village within a building.” Benches and additional tables are
built into the rooms-within-rooms created in the areas where the white desk
surface is raised.
