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OpenMind Kfé: The Duplex of collective intelligence, Paris - Opéra

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Client
Openmind Kfé
Floor area
500.00 ㎡
Completion
2019

OPENMIND KFÉ is a pioneering concept for innovative co-meeting spaces dedicated to the expression of collective intelligence. The studio's idea is to offer embodied, adaptable, light-filled, connected spaces to enable participants to think outside the box when it comes to future innovations and strategies. We wanted to encourage people to enter the place by creating a powerful impression. When they step over the threshold, users are immersed in an arty, dreamlike setting. In the hall, a ladder in levitation enables them to climb symbolically into the world of ideas. Their creativity is then stimulated and their thinking liberated by a coloured fresco spreading out behind the two flights of stairs: a real shot of colour energy. To offer users a broad palette, we have conceived the Duplex as two unique spaces. Two creative approaches; two narratives; two attitudes. In the first, the "Opera Pop" space combines classical parquet and mouldings with monochromes and subverted designs to create an ideal setting for friendly discussion. In the second, the "balle room", dreamed up as a playground, evokes the past of the game room, with billiard balls and pinball machines. The setting has a real meaning, raising ideas that bounce off each other and inspire innovative, agile thinking.