The designers decided to solve the problem by adding the private office spaces in two furniture-like long “boxes” located at the hall, while the ground floor is reserved for bookkeeping and marketing and the mezzanine level houses the showrooms and management personnel where the designers’ space is right across the other wing.
Another problem that has to be resolved is the height of 2.4 m underneath the old steel-beams on the mezzanine level. The designers have created the shelved “box” on the floor in three subdivisions, detached from the beams that are now running freely in between the box-parts. So the “office-boxes” are really free standing, giving the image of dissertation to the old structure of the building. Despite the object-like placement of boxes in the hall, the rooms inside are acoustically separated from the large designers space. On the mezzanine floor opposite to the office boxes, the designers invented a storage wall with hanging rails and shelves for two whole fashion design collections using the same design principles like the office box. The storage wall can be opened to the back; and that gives a calm appearance towards the usually busy design at the production area. Functional space on the ground floor (including the kitchen, bathroom and copy room) is again added to the hall in a furniture-like box. They are all cladded in glossy white panels with oak wood seams.”