Meeting Czech Reverberation Standards

Renovating the office with a new palette

Warsaw’s business districts are often associated with speed, density, glass, and constant movement. Inside Rockwool GBS, the newly-renovated office moves in another direction. The interiors, designed by Comodo Group, combine biophilic design features with pastels. Greens, sand yellows, pale blues, and muted pinks appear throughout the office beside oak veneers, plants, moss surfaces, and upholstered furniture. The office relies on a range of acoustic solution to connect sound absorption with the interior design vision.

A grand showcase

All across the office, Rockfon solutions introduce noise control while also acting as a showcase of the brand's acoustic portfolio, part of ROCKWOOL Group. The ceiling, wall, and zoning solutions allow employees to work directly alongside the material connected to their own day-to-day work: stone wool, at the core of all Rockfon sound-absorbing products, demonstrating how it performs for different needs.

A portfolio ceiling, wall and zoning systems appear throughout the office in varying product types. In such a way the workplace becomes a sequence of changing material expressions with each space introducing a different relationship between sound absorption and product type.

Acoustic divisions within an open office

The ceilings establish the warmth of the space upon entering the office. Rockfon Eclipse Colour floating ceiling panels in pastel shades hang across the reception and corridors, mirrored by circular LED fixtures that continue throughout the workplace, creating rhythm.

Along the brighter walls, the modular acoustic wall system Rockfon Lamella surfaces introduces another layer of material texture through light oak, oak, and smoked oak veneers. The tones soften circulation areas while introducing noise control in the reception and conference rooms.

Although modest in size, the office operates as an open-plan workplace divided into smaller zones through suspended Rockfon Canva hanging floor dividers. Hung from the ceiling, the double-sided panels act simultaneously as spatial dividers and noise absorbers within the room. The partitions allow the office to maintain openness while reducing the sense of exposure that often accompanies smaller open workplaces. Employees can move between collaborative areas and more concentrated working conditions without abrupt transitions in atmosphere or sound.

Comodo Group also transformed the conference rooms at ROCKWOOL GBS using Rockfon acoustic solutions to create more comfortable meeting environments, optimised with high speech intelligibility.

In the smaller rooms, Rockfon Color-all acoustic ceiling tiles extend onto the walls to create a spatial effect. Using the same tones across adjacent surfaces blurs the boundary between ceiling and wall.

Rockfon Canva Wall panels are installed all across the office. In one meeting room, the panel's changeable surface features high-resolution imagery of solidified lava, referencing ROCKWOOL’s expertise in stone wool while functioning simultaneously as a large-scale noise absorber embedded into the identity of the space.

Rockfon Senses introduce another sensory layer. The wall panels, composed of natural materials such as pressed moss, alpine flowers, grasses and leaves, bring texture into the office in a more obvious manners. The panels' surfaces invite touch while subtle natural scents drift through the rooms.

Continuing the vision

“There is a balance in this project. The office is not exaggerated or candy-coated. It provides employees with comfort within several senses: sight – natural, bright colours; hearing – excellent acoustics; touch and smell – structural, fragrant images of Rockfon Senses. The atmosphere here reduces stress and anxiety by creating space for quiet work,” reflects Krzysztof Draber, interior designer at Comodo Group.

The collaboration between Comodo Group and ROCKWOOL GBS continued beyond Warsaw through additional office projects in Poznań, where the same attention on acoustic comfort and showcasing a versatile portfolio was placed.