A) The MOD workshop showcases innovation:
1. Culturally, the post-covid workplace revolution has presented possibilities for systemic design innovation. While some firms have returned to a traditional or hybrid model of work, we have found technologies to adopt a full remote working model, whilst maintaining design productivity.

2. We created a new collaborative design workshop, focusing 60% of the space on creative face to face collaboration, rather than conventional open office with mostly desks.

3. This radical shift mirrors our new work model “MOD 2.0”. Using technologies to enable seamless creative interaction, and focusing on “Life-Work” balance, our teams can choose where they are based in the SE Asian region.

4. From the restrained material palette to the transparent partition framework, the workshop aims to facilitate exploration & collaboration, and spark creativity by offering a blank canvas to our designers.

B) The workshop’s key design features:
1. The Workshop features a series of layered and interlocking 3D metal scaffolding, creating distinct but yet seamless zones of activity. Frosted polycarbonate and fluted glass screens enhance the seamless continuation of space, and facilitate storage, display, and occasional worktops on the horizontal plane.

2. Storage of weighty items is enabled by reinforcing the polycarbonate panels with solid aluminium rods inserted through its depth.

3. Mirrored surfaces enlarge & create spatial ambiguity, contributing more spatial layering.

4. Creative collaboration is focused around a counter-high “war room” table and adjacent magnetic display wall, for material explorations, design discussions and formal presentations.

5. An extensive material and artefact library runs the length & width of the 5M long table, within easy reach and in plain sight, to provide inspiration and stimulate creativity.

6. A customised adjustable lighting system over the table allows for light simulations while reviewing samples. Beyond this, are discussion areas, hot desks, pantry, printer and concealed storage areas.

7. Characterised by its soaring, light-bathed and white spatial essence, the Workshop’s unanticipated surprise is revealed in its stripped back, scaled down black tile-lined bathroom, perhaps the only space not designed with collaboration in mind; instead providing a sense of momentary private sanctuary.

C) The workshop meets sustainability imperatives:
1. Large windows flood the studio with natural daylight, minimizing artificial lighting in the day. Air-conditioners are separate units, enabling us to cool specific zones separately, keeping utility bills to a minimum.

2. Selective application of structural reinforcement, rather than application everywhere, means saving of metal material, e.g. where the shelves store heavy stone samples.

3. The timelessness of the design means less of a need to reinvent or renovate in 5 or 10 years’ time, this is true sustainability.