Blue Line Office — Architect Earthmakers

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02Commercial

Sirsa

An office interior with a white-framed entrance hall at the front, and the meeting room and director's cabin kept darker and quieter behind it.

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Commercial

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A-01Record

The record

Blue Line Office

01Status: Completed

A-01.1What it has

01Reception and waiting area
02Meeting room with track lighting
03Director's cabin with a lounge setting
04Lit display wall
05Split air conditioning to every room

The office is arranged front to back. The entrance hall and reception are white and open, with a stair to the floor above. The rooms that need quiet sit behind them, and both are finished darker than the front, so it is clear where the working part of the office starts.

The entrance

The entrance hall is white throughout — walls, ceiling and frames. The ceiling is folded into angled beams, and the same angled frame is repeated as an open screen beside the stair. A window on the left looks straight out onto open field.

The reception counter faces the door. Behind it, a metal sculpture is mounted on vertical steel rods, and it is the only colour at the front of the office.

The entrance hall looking towards the stair, with angled white beams across the ceiling, an open white screen, a pale tiled floor and a sofa beneath a wide window. — PL. 01

The reception counter with a metal wall sculpture behind it in red, blue and white, mounted on vertical steel rods, with a floor lamp and a basket of dried stems alongside. — PL. 02

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The meeting room

The meeting room is built around one long timber table with a live edge. The floor is dark and the walls are plain, so the table is the only warm thing in the room.

The lighting is on a track above the table rather than fixed in the ceiling, so it can be aimed at the table itself. One wall carries a set of black and white photographs, all of hands, and the far end is fitted with full-height storage.

A meeting room with a long live-edge timber table and white mesh chairs, black and white photographs of hands on the left wall, track lighting above and a dark polished floor. — PL. 03One timber table in a dark room, lit from a track so the light can be aimed at it.

The display wall

One wall is built as a grid of open niches in a grey concrete finish, each one holding a single white ceramic piece.

Every niche is lit from inside its own top edge. That makes the wall the light source for this end of the room rather than something the room has to light, and it is why the table in front of it needs nothing overhead.

A wall of square niches in a grey concrete finish, each lit from within and holding a single white ceramic bird or bowl, with the edge of a pale table in front of it. — PL. 04

The director's cabin

The cabin holds two settings in one room. The desk sits at one end with chairs for four in front of it, and a leather sofa and low table make a softer setting at the other, so a meeting can move across the room without leaving it.

The long wall is finished in a dark diamond lattice and framed by columns in a grey concrete finish. The floor is polished marble, and a wide window in that wall brings light in across it.