Swiss Textile Institute’s new meeting rooms - located in Zurich’s urban surrounding of a 1940ies modernist building – are placed in the attic of the Institutes main offices.
The facility of the space is thought as a place for creative get-togethers, for business exchange and is understood as a meeting- and co-working-space. The Institute opens up the space to manufactures, designers, politicians and students, all related to the world of textile.

The textile interventions within the space are giving a strong and exceptional identity by fashion designer Lela Scherrer and textile designer Christoph Hefti. Teamed up as “Scherrer/Hefti”, they designed and developed the wall panels and all-over carpet that define the identity of the space.
Enlarged colour bleedings and huge horizontal stripes, both inspired by small test swatches picked up in a printing mill, set the look for the wall panels.
Every room has its own colour atmosphere that covers the whole colour spectrum and is experienced within the whole space.
The design of the all-over carpet picks up the stripes from the horizontal wall panels.
The floor stripes are randomly spread out over the entire floor, running through all the rooms in an irregular way. Some of the stripes run underneath the glass walls into the corridor, breaking up the room divisions and connecting them to a generous experience.