Bruzkus Greenberg created a raised home office feel in a shared workplace in Berlin, drawing on the warmth and ease of the home office – comfort, domesticity, and informality – while capturing the energy of a shared workplace.
The shared amenity spaces at Berlin’s C1 office building offer generously scaled furniture and welcoming environments designed to bring people together, featuring domestic furniture, varied lighting conditions, and differentiated atmospheres.
Berlin-based firm Bruzkus Greenberg designed the spaces, reflecting the logic of the sharing economy, and they used this approach to create a unique environment.
They offer the kinds of spaces and experiences that exceed what individuals can reasonably have in their home offices, such as great furniture and comfortable places to linger and work, allowing people to be more productive.
According to the report, Peter Greenberg, Partner at Bruzkus Greenberg, says people want to work in an office building because they can get access to things and spaces they can’t in their home office, which is a major advantage.
As employees return to the workplace, they demand more than a functional desk; they seek environments that nurture both performance and well-being, which is essential for their success.
The spatial separation between communal floors and private offices enables tenants to customize their workspaces while relying on high-quality shared environments, giving them the best of both worlds.
The overall spatial strategy proposes a combination of enclosed rooms with controlled acoustic boundaries and open areas that define space and scale with furniture, creating a flexible and comfortable workspace.
Mixing bespoke and vintage furnishings with curated off-the-shelf products, the shared settings offer a rich combination of warm and cool to create colorful, material-rich spaces.
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The shared amenity spaces include common areas like comfortable lounges, designed with domestic furniture, varied lighting conditions, and differentiated atmospheres, offering employees real choice in where and how they work, and allowing them to be more productive.
The design offers common spaces with atmospheric choices that are rarely found in a home office, such as a variety of comfortable and contemporary areas to work or relax or have a conversation, making the office feel like a high-end amenity space.
According to Greenberg, their interior architecture flows from a conversation between loose furnishings, fixed micro-architectural elements like screens, and the space between acoustically defined rooms, which creates a sense of harmony.
The core of the project lies in the fact that people choose to work in an office building for environmental choices that cannot be replicated in the home office, which is a key factor in the design of the shared amenity spaces.
The common spaces at C1 offer building tenants places to get away from their upstairs offices to work, to think, to meet, to have coffee, and to feel a generous sense of openness and productivity, making the office a desirable place to be.
Clear glazing is mixed with mirror on the fire wall to connect all of the shared spaces on the ground floor, uniting shared amenity spaces on either side of a hidden concrete fire wall, and creating a sense of continuity.
The difference at C1 is the attention to design that the amenities have been given, making the spaces feel more comfortable than the usual office lobby, inviting people to sit and work in a comfortable way, much like they would in a luxury investment property.
Greenberg notes that the model for the office of the twenty-first century should be a hotel lobby or a bar or a library or a living room – or better: all of the above, a concept that guides the design of the shared amenity spaces at C1, and creates a unique and desirable work environment.
It is a space that feels like home.