The future-focused and completely flexible design gives teams and individuals the ability to choose how they want to work.
An agile and future-focused design has won the Workplace Design award for architecture studio BVN at the Australian Interior Design Awards (AIDA).
The Awards recognise and celebrate interior design excellence via a credible, industry-based program, which is backed by the Design Institute of Australia, the professional body representing Australian designers.
The award-winning project saw the refurbishment of the 1,800sqm space for BVN’s own Sydney Studio, representing a move from a traditionally structured workplace to one that is completely flexible, giving teams and individuals the agency to self-organise based on how they want to work.
“The BVN studio is an incubator for innovation through continual research projects, data collection, and new ways of working,” said BVN Co-CEO Ninotschka Titchkosky.
To deliver flexibility to teams that rely on high-speed data, the designers invented a system by which power and data is delivered across the floorplate via a retractable cable [called the Data Boom] that is fixed to the ceiling soffit. A dedicated workshop area and VR space were also introduced.
The jury commented that the project “exhibits powerful thinking and offers a genuine attempt to remake the office environment to suit BVN Sydney Studio’s creative workflow. Everything is transparent and this means the creative process is exposed and on show, encouraging collaboration and experimentation.”
“The designers had a clear strategy to understand how people work and while it would have been easy for them to take a straightforward workstation approach (which a lot of design and architecture firms do), they took a risk and chose not to.”
This marks the third time that BVN have won the Workplace Design category at AIDA, with Frasers Property Australia’s head office in Rhodes winning in 2017 and The Customer Experience Company winning in 2018.
BVN also won the prestigious Interior Design Impact award from AIDA for the Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic Primary School project in North Strathfield, which involved the refurbishment of the ground floor of a dilapidated 1970’s former Telstra training centre to create a light, engaging and inspiring place of learning.
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