D5 Architects LLP - Projects
09/10/2008Chambers Lounge
Value: £50k (2003)
Area: 86m2
Contract: JCT Minor Works Contract
Role: Lead Designer, Architect RIBA Work Stage A > L
Client: St Philip's Chambers, Birmingham
Sector: Commercial, Leisure & Sport
The conversion of an open plan area of clerks accommodation into a sociable lounge space for all staff to use on breaks, at lunch, informal meetings and social evenings. The space had to have multi-functional capabilities with mood setting appropriate to a daytime cafe or evening bar.
The space was designed to be both warm and intimate, whilst being also clean and contemporary. The resulting design incorporates a variety of seating types for different size groups of people including sofa's, cafe tables and chairs and one to one bespoke stool and tables forming a floor, wall and ceiling feature with integrated lighting. The harsh urban aspect through the windows was softened by timber screens, which were fret cut with a figure ground of Birmingham city centre. Similar panels were used as canopies over the sofa's to reduce the ceiling height and create more intimacy.