Dutch advertising agency Nothing turned to retro-futuristic Dutch designer Joost van Bleiswijk and design director Alrik Koudenburg, who created a striking cardboard office out of next to nothing. Built entirely from super-versatile cardboard, the Amsterdam office is a large volume office space inside a white box apartment. Made using van Bleiswijk’s "no glue, no screw" technique, the concept illustrates the agency’s philosophy to perfection: “Nothing is about the power of ideas, how a single idea can transform nothing into something. Using a cheap throw-away material to build a unique and memorable work space, seemed a good way to materialize this thought.”
Entire office space by carefully cutting and folding sheets of 15 mm honeycomb cardboard.
The area includes desks, tables, bookshelves, columns, stairs, and even
rooms made out of the material. Each piece is structurally stable, and
if for any reason a tabletop gets damaged, a new one is cheap and can be
easily cut to size, replacing the old one.
Eindhoven Design Academy
graduate Coen Danckmer Voordouw was involved in the design and the
execution of the project — we’ve featured his work before in the form of
his COOLS kit.
The office’s signature style is timeless and classic, and it was
modeled after van Bleiswijk’s “no glue, no screw” design ethos, where
the form follows function and only the most basic elements remain. Van
Bleiswijk’s design work draws inspiration from historic industrial
design objects that have been forgotten, like the writing desk, the
standing clock, the hourglass, and even the chessboard. The end result
is a sustainable, versatile and timeless body of work that will never go
out of fashion.
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