A row of modular birch lockers with padlocks, topped with green potted plants, lines a carpeted corridor in this modern indoor space.

A modern office corridor features sustainable timber construction with white walls, grey carpet, wooden lockers on the right, and potted plants. A beige sofa sits beneath an illuminated green exit sign at the corridor’s end.

A modern wooden bench with open cubby storage sits against a white wall. Above it, a built-in nook features beige seat cushions and backrests. This modular design highlights sustainable timber construction on a dark brown carpeted floor.

A built-in wooden nook crafted from spruce with a beige seat cushion and matching back cushion. The light-coloured timber construction adds warmth, whilst an open storage space sits conveniently below the nook.

A person walks down a modern corridor with spruce lockers and plants on the right, white walls, modular design elements, and exposed ceiling pipes, heading towards a green exit sign at the end.

Two empty metal stools are positioned under a light birch plywood counter with dividers, beneath a blank white wall decorated with two hanging potted plants. Sunlight casts sustainable shadows across the scene.

A large potted plant sits on a dark carpeted floor in front of a wooden door labelled 02 Meeting Room with glass windows, highlighting the modern office corridor’s sustainable design and timber construction elements.

A wooden sign made from birch with the word guru in lowercase black letters, where the letter g has a blue dot inside it, is mounted on a light wood wall with metal screws visible.

A modern lounge area with spruce wooden armchairs, modular round cork stools, and a circular coffee table on a patterned wood floor. Shelves and a wall with notes are visible in the background.

A close-up of a glass window labelled 02 Meeting room on a light birch wooden wall, with large green leafy plants in the foreground.

Four Divine chocolate bars in vibrant wrappers (gold, red, purple, green) stand upright on a light spruce shelf, viewed through a glass window.

Two boxes of OrganiCup and two packs of reusable gift wrap—one with a blue and orange striped pattern, the other with a white snowflake design—are displayed on a birch plywood shelf.

A plant on a wooden birch wall-mounted shelf hangs above a recessed alcove holding four colourful shopping bags with printed slogans on a white wall in a modern space with dark carpet.

Sustainable Workspaces

We worked with non-profit start-up accelerator Sustainable Workspaces to create removable partitions for their amazing new co-working space in Central London, overlooking the Thames.

They needed partitions and furniture to divide up their open plan layout for their members, but they had a problem: their occupation of the new office was only temporary. In less than two years time from when they moved in they would be moving to a larger office higher up in the building. They wanted a solution that they could take with them to the new space, which met their environmental values, and which left no trace on the existing building, This meant no fixings into the walls, which was a bit of a headscratcher!

We worked with them on a design which maximised re-usablility, with standard box types used for around 95% of the walls. For the remaining 5%, we came up with a completely new innovation: An adjustable U-Build module known as a ‘compression box’.

The U-Build compression box tightens against the concrete frame of the building using a flat plate, and turns the assembly into a solid partition, without a single fixing into the building. The adjustable nature of the box serves a second function – to close up small gaps – and can also be fitted with a seal for added acoustic performance

As the partitions have no fixings, the landlord classified them as furniture, which did not break the terms of the lease. We think was a great result.

Our work extended to cover other items, including desks, storage units, office pods and lockers.

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