FOX Architects, a DC-based firm, helped create a dual-functioned workspace for MOI, an interior solutions provider that furnishes any commercial space from floor to ceiling. The dual-function needed to allow employees to work effortlessly within the space all while showcasing its furniture products to potential clients.
The design team’s challenge was to design a space that is a dual function: both a public-facing, highly flexible furniture showroom, while simultaneously a semi-private workspace for the corporate headquarters staff.
The design team developed an architectural concept: PIVOT. This space, acting as both public and private, open and intimate, is a space of transitions. The transition from one environment to the next is expressed through a pivotal moment in the space, by creating a hinge in the floor plane through the use of a ramp and reflecting that hinge in the ceiling plane.
The corporate work area serves as a workspace as well as a showroom. Highlighting MOI’s product partnerships, the design team utilized those products to further shape the space. To allow for refuge in an open environment, free-standing huddle rooms provide pockets of privacy in an open plan.
To maintain showroom-level flexibility throughout the plan, the space is largely open by necessity. Through the implementation of a faceted ceiling plane, a variety of environments are revealed beneath one overarching ceiling structure, providing varying levels of privacy and acoustic insulation without the use of walls.
The space utilizes raised-access flooring allows for easy reconfiguration of furniture and power in the open office showroom. The ceiling plane pivots up and down to accommodate different work styles and needs, providing a sense of scale and privacy without the use of walls.
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Beyond the pivot point, the corporate work area serves as a workspace as well as a showroom. Providing a sense of scale and privacy, the ceiling plane pivots up and down to accommodate different work styles and needs. Highlighting MOI’s product partnerships, the design team utilized products to further shape the space. To allow for refuge in an open environment, free-standing huddle rooms provide pockets of privacy in an open plan. Offices and conference spaces border the open office, allowing the majority of the space to remain a flexible showroom environment.