Excerpt: Decerto Office, an interior design project by Bit Creative, enhances a challenging space with an intriguing and dynamic character. A dodged, multidirectional wall arrangement and irregular muntin division on glass walls visually divide the space into shorter sections. Every room features a significant accent of the copper-colored leitmotif, broken by concrete, with strong, decisive designs as distinguishing elements.
Project Description
[Text as submitted by architect] Decerto is one of the leaders in insurance technology. By providing its customers with reliable insurance software solutions and guaranteeing seamless data migration, it boldly leads them to success. Trust and security on the one hand, and dynamism and modern technology on the other, have also determined the interior design of the company’s headquarters. The 850 sqm on the 4th floor of the Lumen office building in Warsaw fully reflects the brand’s philosophy. This is thanks to the architects of BIT CREATIVE, who gave a dynamic character to a space that was quite difficult to arrange.
The main design challenge was the oval shape of the building and the longitudinal, corridor-like layout of the office. The investor wanted closed rooms for the best possible acoustics and security. In order to break the monotony in communication, the designers proposed a dodged, multidirectional arrangement of walls and an irregular division of muntins on the glass walls. Thanks to this treatment, the space has been visually divided into shorter sections thus giving an interesting and dynamic character.” – explains architect Barnaba Grzelecki.
This character is emphasized by the adopted design applied with remarkable consistency. The main leitmotif has become copper broken by the gray of concrete. It appears in every room, constituting a significant accent. In turn, the distinguishing elements of the space are strong, decisive designs. The ceilings have been painted a dark gray color, and the light fixtures are hung in different directions giving dynamism to the space. Attention can also be drawn to the glass walls with vertical and horizontal divisions, which reinforce the adopted style. This makes the entire office space, although functionally divided, coherent.
The business card of the office is certainly the reception area with a waiting room. Facing the entrance is a reception counter designed in the form of a sculpture made of corten and steel mesh, in a dynamic, multidirectional form. In its background, an illuminated company logo is displayed on a wall covered with steel mesh. The rest of the waiting room’s walls are covered with lush greenery, which builds a contrast to the copper plaster. A raster ceiling with an irregular mesh pattern dominates the entire space, which also adds to the dynamics of the interior. From here we can go to the individual utility rooms. This is because there are two conference rooms – one for 22 people, the other for 10 people, six management offices and five teamwork rooms.
Co-working rooms and conference rooms were designed in the same, uniform and consistent style. Dark ceilings are accented with led fixtures in a dynamic arrangement. The interiors are warmed by wood on doors, countertops and in the form of wall decorations.
The designers used copper plaster, architectural concrete and steel mesh on the walls as accents, from which greenery can be hung. For additional acoustic comfort, the glass walls can be obscured with thick fabric curtains. In the interiors there is also no shortage of furniture joinery designed to meet the individual needs of the client, the architect explains. – In the team rooms, to ensure the comfort of individual work, we designed high pots with greenery between the desks”. – says architect Jakub Bubel.
The main place for meetings and corporate events is a social room with a considerable area of 120 sqm. The investor wanted it to take on a cafe character. So the architects of BIT CREATIVE opted for a modern club style. Hence, there is a full-size kitchenette with a side-by-side refrigerator, microwaves, a pouring station for cold, hot, carbonated water and even alcohol. An important aspect for Decerto is the integration of employees, so the dining area features a single, solid wood table.
In the middle of the room are a variety of soft seating and cafe-style carpets, which couldn’t miss a top-of-the-line Chesterfield sofa. A 98-inch TV and Playstation are also available in this area. With a view of the dome of the Golden Terraces, you can also organize billiard competitions, play on an arcade machine and test yourself throwing darts at a target.
“Also important in the process was the presence of greenery, which improves comfort. It could not be missing in this room. It appears on the walls in the form of decorative paintings, hanging vines from columns and typical potted plants.” reveals architect Malwina Klimowicz.
All this to ensure full working comfort, which includes time spent together. After all, the integration of employees and the feeling of creating a mini-community was one of the expectations of the investors, which the architects from BIT CREATIVE met perfectly.
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