When designing any space you face a lot of choices.
For offices, hotel lounges, restaurants etc. you usually have less space than you would ideally want. At the same time you normally need to make the larger space smaller at the same time – whether you want to make small niches for restaurant guests to enjoy their meal in peace, you need to have an isolated space for small 1:1 meetings in the office or you just want a couch area next separate from your main lounge.
Working with the GRID System, you can achieve space within space more fluidly than with a non-modular interior design system. Here we present a few ways to improve your space, by dividing it.
With a well-placed room divider or partition wall, you can cut off part of your larger room without making the whole smaller.
This is good to make sure you don’t cut off light sources with heavy walls and to avoid making the atmosphere worse with a glass partition.
You can include felt panels to suck up some ambient noise in order to increase the calmness of your partitioned off space.
Many office buildings and office hotels maximize their amount of tenants by having long hallways with access to multiple offices. Likewise, larger offices often feature the same hallways to accomodate easy access to meeting rooms and bathrooms.
GRID room dividers can be used to make these otherwise empty spaces more visually appealing by adding features such as light and life through biophilic touches from plant boxes and similar.
Hallway room dividers such as those seen at Goldbeck and Simmons+Simmons also feature seating and storage for reading material, where employees can have small talks or simply sit in silence for a break.
One of the drawbacks of the industry-spanning shift towards an open-office environment, is that the containment of sound becomes more difficult.
With a room divider you can both reduce the visual expanse of your space, but also, and perhaps more importantly, you can alleviate the sound generated from such a large space.
The GRID System offers the addition of BuzziSkin felt panels that have been tested to substantially reduce the sound reverberation in a room.
Room dividers on wheels can make your space more adaptable to different needs.
If you want to host a reception or party in your limited office space, it helps being to temporarily remove the wall that you normally have in the middle of the room
The same principle can come into play in libraries and museums for changing exhibitions or even at home, when you need to turn a guest room into a home office during the week.
Among all the different functionality you can get from a modular room divider, the visual appeal is just as important.
Incorporating colours, plants and small decorations into your modular furniture storage furniture can bring in something interesting and perhaps even homey to the office, while still maintaining the core function of the room divider – don’t forget the little things.
Want more ideas for how to design with modular furniture?
Make your room your own by using adaptable furniture. Bring in the green by creating a biophilic space.
