Bean Buro was tasked to design an agile workspace for Jardine Restaurant Group, one of the leading restaurant groups in Asia. The new workplace would deviate from traditional offices to move towards a highly agile, sociable, environmentally-friendly and paperless work environment. The unique features in the client’s brief included a highly productive front of house that can cater for food demo tasting events, food filming, staff training, as well as company ‘town hall’ events. Bean Buro responded with a design that utilises a stairwell to improve connectivity across the two floors, in a monochromatic ruby colour to emphasise the vertical double height space. The ‘ruby’ colour scheme was inspired by the company’s restaurants heritage, but it is in conjunction with other colourful highlights that represent a sense of new opportunities in the company’s exciting development. The iconic ruby colour was specified for various architectural elements such as the stairwell and glazing partition frames, while other colour accents of blue, red and green hues are subtly used on floor carpet, fabrics, lattice frames, and acoustic baffles. The general work environment in the back of house for over 300 people adopts a clean desk policy for hot-desk areas, where staff could use lockers provided and clear their desks each day. Various departments are identified by their floor and desk colours, to improve overall navigation by creating a sense of different neighbourhoods.