ProjectsInteriorsBerlin2022

Strata Workplace

Four floors of a 1920s printing works turned into a workplace with no fixed desks and one very long table.

Location: Berlin, Germany
Completion: 2022
Built area: 4,100 m²
Plot size: 1,050 m²
Status: Completed
Client: Strata GmbH

The project

ServicesInteriors, Workplace strategy, Furniture

Floors4, plus roof terrace

Workpoints260, unassigned

FurnitureCustom oak, made in Brandenburg

LightingWith Studio Lux

Strata, a data company, wanted an office that would pull people back after two years of remote work. The printing works in Kreuzberg had the bones: five-metre ceilings, cast-iron columns and a north-lit sawtooth roof.

We stripped the building back to its structure and added only three elements: a 40-metre oak table that runs through the top floor, a stair that doubles as a lecture theatre, and a kitchen large enough to feed everyone at once.

Occupancy sits at 78 percent on an average day, up from 30 in the previous office.

Cast-iron columns in the open floor — The stripped-back floor, columns exposed.Fig. 01

Black furniture under pendant lights — Meeting corner, custom furniture.Fig. 02

Top floor: the 40-metre table under the sawtooth roof.Fig. 03

A quiet desk with a plant — A focus desk on the second floor.Fig. 04

The lecture stair — The stair that doubles as a lecture theatre.Fig. 05

Approach

Remove more than you add. The building was the interior.

One table for everyone, from interns to the board.

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