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Opportunity

The student services space at the University of West London required collaborative and private working areas creating without the use of walls or structural elements.

Solution

Hive was able to create all of these spaces and provide a flexible, reconfigurable solution with functional accessories such as integrated technology and cantilever work surfaces.

Opportunity

The University of Warwick’s Learning Grid Rootes provides a space for students to study corroboratively or individually on campus. They required furniture to create spaces within their large open plan setting. Open seven days a week, the furniture also needs to be hard wearing and comfortable.

Solution

Connection’s innovative Hive modular furniture provides flexible seating that defines spaces and provides excellent comfort for hundreds of students per day. The new space has proved very popular with the students who have given excellent feedback about the new space to their university.

Opportunity

When energy giants Scottish and Southern Energy acquired the 186,000ft2 site at 1 Forsbury Place they engaged International architect HKS’ London office to design the interior spaces. Their brief was to create a business hub for more than 1900 SSE employees, transferring from other sites within the South-East, which would make efficient use of the new space, improve integration of staff and adding vibrancy and efficiency to the working environment.

Solution

Working to both a tight timescale and budget, HKS and Claremont Office Interiors selected Rooms for the atrium area to, not just to define the space, but to define a place – somewhere for formal and informal meetings and a social area to meet and greet. Clever use of acoustic and Venetian trellis walls offered both visual and acoustic privacy further encouraging interaction between staff and clients without tying up formal meeting spaces. Rooms’ versatility meant that the whole atrium has become a focal point of the building & is in use throughout the day.

Mae chairs, Bubble stools and tables and a Horizon Island configuration populated the atrium to work together with Rooms. Xpresso chairs were also used in café and corporate meeting areas in other parts of the building

Opportunity

To create an open, clearly structured work environment with plenty of room for spontaneous and planned communication.

Solution

Hive and Tryst products were used to create private booths for meeting, working and collaborating.

Opportunity

To create an area within this stunning new building which enables comfortable communication for a variety of occasions, catering for both privacy and mass meetings and events.

Solution

Hive was used to create four intimate, visually and acoustically screened meeting areas. Outer benches provide a place to rest without disturbing users of the internal benches, and bright colours create a much more lively open space. The huge atrium within Mail.ru’s headquarters has been transformed from a shell into a lively environment with multiple meeting and collaboration areas.

Opportunity

Jyske Bank is the 4th largest bank in Denmark with 800 employees in the head office and 130 branches. Connection’s brief was to create a friendly and relaxed atmosphere with informal yet private meeting spaces for this new branch.

Solution

Hive was selected for its excellent acoustic and visual screening properties. The Hive pods create a versatile space that allows customers to interact with account managers in an informal, semi-private setting.

Opportunity

A Canadian based food retailer that encompasses 1,000+ corporate and franchise supermarkets, with more than 135,000 employees & operating under 22 regional and market segment banners, required flexible furniture to fit within their office spaces & desking. The furniture had to provide visual & some acoustic privacy for meetings within their busy office spaces.

The market segments they cover include grocery and household items, clothing, baby products, pharmaceuticals, and financial services, to name but a few, displaying their stature as the largest retailer in Canada. The furniture needed to match these high businesses standards & their aims of continued growth within the industry.

Solution

Rooms were specified by AFK Studios in London and procured through Staples Advantage in Toronto. Through single & double adjoining Rooms, new spaces were created away from the desk to allow employees to meet & discuss openly, whilst the central whiteboard walls allowed for & encouraged idea generation during these meetings. The open walls created a more comfortably & relaxing environment for the employees when using the space, whilst the wooden cladding exterior added an organic & warm feel to the corporate office.

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Opportunity

Cardiff University were looking to refurbish and update their 4,600ft2 resource centre and had tasked Paramount Interiors to supply and install the furniture. The open plan space had fixed pillars positioned around the centre, meaning the furniture had to be adaptable and flexible to fit the space. The space was to be predominantly used by students and needed to offer a variety of functions such as to socialise, to offer privacy, to eat and to collaborate. The furniture needed to be able to adapt to these different student requirements.

Solution

The versatility of our modular Hive allowed it to flow and mould around the fixed building structures and features, whilst adding privacy and defining the different areas through the use of high back screens. Back-to-back Cubbi modules were added to create small alcoves in the vast open plan area, providing the much needed privacy away from casual seating areas and sociable spaces. Swoosh lounge chairs were dotted around the space, suiting with Hive and sitting alone to create group areas, in bright and colourful fabrics.

Opportunity

The opportunity was to create several flexible and private meeting areas within a large open-plan office measuring 6000m2. Hive was selected because of its versatile nature, 90-degree pods were used to create free-standing private focus and meeting areas, and Hive benches were used to integrate into the client’s own bespoke chequerboard partition walls.

Solution

Hive Pods were used to create interior architecture providing collaboration spaces within a large open-plan office, and Hive benches integrate into a preexisting structure to create private seating booths.