French artist Paul Coudamy has designed a cardboard office interior for an advertising agency in Paris, France.
He created furniture, twenty work stations, partitions, meeting rooms and storage using 4cm thick water-resistant honeycomb cardboard mounted with wood glue and tape.
Lighting in the space is made from umbrellas, which Coudamy claims “give a kind of magic.”
Photographs by Benjamin Bocass.
The following information is from Paul Coudamy:
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The challenge: to design an office space, in a 180 m² industrial room in the north of Paris for an advertising agency, in only one month for conception and production, with the most restricted budget.
The client needs 20 working posts separated in different spaces, a solution for small internal meetings with acoustic insulation, and storage.
Job has been done thanks to 4cm thick water resistant honeycomb cardboard, mounted with wood glue and tape, there is no additional structure.
1 Space is completly modular, all the partitions are mobile, a system of angles cuts afford both structure and customising solutions.
2 Storage mixes the raw estectic of honeycomb and the smooth cardboard partition.
3 Lighting breaks with the industrial atmosphere, umbrellas give a kind of magic.
4 Creation of a meeting box : «le confessional », for fast intern meeting hidden and isolated.
Paul Coudamy works on a wide range of projects and inventions.
From object design, interior architecture, experimental devices to artistic installations.
November 4th, 2008 at 9:04 pm
you think cardoard is green but with cardboard you have interior pollution
November 4th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
Wow. That looks really comfortable.
November 4th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
This would be a good office for a Gondry film.
It needs better illumination though…
November 4th, 2008 at 10:59 pm
Throw-away Office. Why not?
November 5th, 2008 at 2:49 am
Amazing, but is it really practical?
November 5th, 2008 at 3:24 am
sort of cool idea…but the actual space looks dismal and drab…depressing…
November 5th, 2008 at 4:04 am
Yeah, ergonomic for sure. Artists designing furniture and designers making art. How about reversing this silly trend? But hey, it’s advertising agency, they deserve sore bottoms and eyes.
November 5th, 2008 at 8:58 am
Throw-away is great idea!
In fact, with this type of cardboard, you probably get to throw it away after one or two months.
November 5th, 2008 at 11:31 am
I totally agree with lorbus. So Gondrian!
Pretty interesting solution, somo more research on this field would be desireable.
November 5th, 2008 at 11:40 am
fire?
November 5th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
good bizz lesson : how to have media coverage with small budget
November 5th, 2008 at 6:26 pm
burn, baby burn !
November 5th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
it is a pitty that working desks and the working chair is not made out of card board… hehe,… nice work. Pitty if there is one window in the photo the space might look a loooot better…
November 5th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
Are drawings on the walls allowed? :) It looks a bit depressing, maybe because of the cardboards colour. It should look happier…. happyhappyhappy!
November 6th, 2008 at 1:47 am
Hi there Dezeen,
I admit my previous (deleted) comment regarding this post might have been a little too heavy for this site, but seriously, if Dezeen posts mindless student projects disguised as professional ones such as this one, it should allow criticism as well. Or else it is just a big hypocritical hug fest.
Thank you
November 6th, 2008 at 10:15 am
add some carboard sofa there…..
http://fcocantu.carbonmade.com/projects/2154985#4
November 6th, 2008 at 11:14 am
great office if you’re running a give away media set magazine supported by your parents
November 6th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
Very Michel Gondry, non?
November 6th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
“nick* Says:
November 5th, 2008 at 11:40 am
fire? ”
LOL!!!
November 7th, 2008 at 5:13 am
I feel paper cut
November 7th, 2008 at 9:52 am
Hahaha, I don’t know if I’m supposed to laugh or cry! My kid made a tree house out of fibre board, maybe I should try to get that one published too? And who took the pictures? Well, you’re sure to get a reaction with this kind of office, can’t deny that. I’m really pissed off, but I will remember it…
November 7th, 2008 at 10:14 am
it is cool indeed,
more eye-catching than practical maybe, but it is well designed, i like it
just a question:
what does the fire brigade think about? do fire regulations allow this?
November 12th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
You may like it.
November 16th, 2008 at 1:31 am
EXCELENTE , EXCELENTE….. I LIKE IT
November 24th, 2008 at 4:43 am
It is the same cubical without the extruded metal frame. Ships and IKEA table are built with the same thing.
November 26th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
I think the shelves, ’sofa’ and table look quite cool aesthetically, but I’d be interested to know how long they actually last, whether they support weight etc.. It’s not ‘green’ if you have to replace it after 2 weeks.
November 26th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
The umbrella lamps are kind of funky, though they’re going to have to empty the grit and dust out of them every few weeks.
January 23rd, 2009 at 7:31 am
Departmental shredder are auto start-stop so you don’t have to monitor shredding long runs of continuous forms. Select from high speed or large capacity models. Every Destroyit shredder model has a 10-year warranty on cutting heads and can take staples and paper clips.
March 2nd, 2009 at 6:01 pm
Don’t worry guys, if there is a fire, the cardboard is ‘waterproof’
LOL! I agree, very bad room for it.