小办公室丨Spaces and Design

一种材料在塑造办公空间的身份中究竟能走多远？

How far can a single material go in shaping the identity of a workspace?

▼项目概览，overview of the project © Pankaj Anand

Spaces and Design 的 Pooja Bihani 在“Silver Lining”项目中探讨了这一问题——这是为东印度地区最大的 Apple 经销商打造的办公空间。该办公室通过未来主义视角重新诠释现代极简主义，以单色银色调为基底，探索质感、光线与材料之间大胆而精妙的互动，营造出一个既高效实用又富有视觉感染力的环境。设计采用工业时尚（industrial-chic）的语言，但通过精致化处理加以克制，使每一处界面都能以出人意料的方式捕捉并承载光线。

Pooja Bihani of Spaces and Design explores that question in Silver Lining, an office designed for East India’s largest Apple reseller. This office is a striking example of modern minimalism reimagined through a futuristic lens. Anchored by a monochromatic silver palette, it explores a bold interplay of texture, light, and materiality to create an environment that feels at once functional and visually evocative. The design embraces an industrial-chic language but tempers it with refinement, allowing every surface to catch and hold light in unexpected ways.

▼银色空间，silver space © Pankaj Anand

▼办公室，office © Pankaj Anand

在银色与灰色的包裹之中，空间将铝材同时作为结构与表皮加以呈现，使其从一种工业材料转变为界定空间气质的核心角色。这一色彩体系呼应了品牌所体现的精确性与沉稳自信，同时避免了工业极简主义常被诟病的冷峻感。

Wrapped in tones of silver and grey, the space celebrates aluminium as both structure and surface, transforming it from an industrial element into a defining character. The palette echoes the precision and quiet confidence of the brand it represents, while the design resists the coldness often tied to industrial minimalism.

▼茶水间，tea room © Pankaj Anand

在室内，界面开始模糊“原始”与“精致”之间的边界。桌面由定制铝型材构成；砖墙覆以银色涂层；织物被夹置于玻璃之中，使透明中带有细微的肌理。金属帘幕作为分隔轻柔摆动，在光线中如织物般闪烁。访客休息区中，来自 Davide Groppi 的月光灯为空间增添了一种空灵气质；同时，具有良好声学性能的绗缝面料（puffer fabric）与带有肌理的墙面延续着同样细腻的微光效果，将金属的表达转译为可触的体验。甚至连茶水间也未被忽略——由铝制便当盒（dabbas）构成的定制装置延续了这一叙事。

Inside, surfaces begin to blur the boundary between raw and refined. Tables are shaped from customised aluminium sections. Bricks wear a coat of silver paint, and fabric is layered within glass, giving transparency a hint of texture. Metal curtains sway gently as partitions, catching glints of light like fabric in motion. Elements like a moon light by Davide Groppi in the visitors lounge adds the ethereal quality to the space, while puffer fabric, ideal for excellent acoustic qualities, and textured walls carry the same subtle shimmer, extending the language of metal into the tactile. Even the spaces like the pantry has not been left untouched. A custom installation made using the aluminium dabbas (lunchbox) continues this narrative.

▼访客休息区，visitors lounge © Pankaj Anand

尽管铝材始终是空间的主角，设计同样受到场地条件的深刻影响。较低的层高、有限的自然采光以及仅有一面采光立面，本可能使室内显得局促封闭，但设计通过在吊顶中精确设置开口打破了这一局限。两个椭圆形的采光屋顶引导视线向上，并使光线在各个界面之间流动。同时，空间被一层随时间变化的漫射光所包裹，进一步强化了开放感。

While aluminium remains the hero, the design has also been equally shaped by the constraints the site offered. Low ceiling heights, limited natural daylight and a single facade for natural light could have easily made the interior feel boxed in, but the design breaks that boundary through carefully positioned punctures in the false ceiling. Two elliptical sunlit roofs, draw the eye upward and allow light to play across surfaces. It also amplifies this sense of openness by washing the interior in a diffused glow that shifts through the day.

▼椭圆形采光屋，elliptical sunlit roof © Pankaj Anand

设计之美源于克制。它映射了客户所处的硬件与精密领域，并由此摆脱了惯常的表达路径。最终呈现的是一个既理性克制又富有表现力的办公空间——在这里，铝材如同记忆般承载光线，每一处界面都共同构建出一种平静而有节奏的秩序。归根结底，“Silver Lining”关乎的并非闪耀，而是细腻；不仅定义了空间的视觉形象，也塑造了一种整体的精神状态。

The design finds its beauty in restraint. It mirrors the client’s world of hardware and precision, and in doing so it steps away from predictability. What emerges is a workspace that feels measured yet expressive, where aluminium holds light like memory and every surface contributes to a calm, deliberate rhythm. In the end, Silver Lining is less about shine and more about subtlety, about how a single material can define not just the look of a space, but its entire state of mind.

▼在吊顶中精确设置开口打破了这一局限，the design breaks that boundary through carefully positioned punctures in the false ceiling © Pankaj Anand

Project Name: Silver Lining

Location: Kolkata

Size: 2100 sq ft

Typology: Office Project

Design firm: Spaces and Design

Photographer credits: Pankaj Anand

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