Office Colliers
Vienna |Office
Architect: archiguards / Photos: Andreas Wallner
Project Description
The open office spaces at Colliers are organised by a continuous linear lighting grid. Its regular order follows the workplace structure and creates an overarching connection between workstations, meeting areas and communication zones.
Large-format light modules provide uniform illumination across the work areas and are directly integrated into the ceiling architecture. The lighting system therefore recedes as a technical element, while its grid supports the organisation of the open office space.
Meeting and communication areas receive targeted concentrations of light within this underlying structure. The different uses remain perceptible without interrupting the continuous sightlines or the openness of the floor plan.
In this way, the ceiling lighting fulfils both functional and spatially organising roles. Workplace structure, light distribution and ceiling architecture interlock to form a coherent system that makes the organisation of the open-plan office legible.
Project Information
Architecture Type: Open office architecture with a linear spatial grid, workstations, meeting areas and communication zones.
Lighting Concept & Design Approach: A continuous linear lighting grid forms the overarching lighting structure and follows the organisation of the workstations. Uniform light supports the work areas, while targeted concentrations of light mark meeting and communication zones within the open floor plan.
Luminaire Integration: Large-format light modules and linear luminaires are directly integrated into the ceiling structure, together forming a continuous grid.
Spatial Effect: An ordered and open office environment with uniformly illuminated work areas, continuous sightlines and a clearly legible workplace organisation.
Questions about lighting design for open-plan offices
- How does a linear lighting grid support the organisation of an open-plan office?
A continuous grid can follow the arrangement of workstations and spatial axes. At Colliers, it connects the different areas within an overarching structure and makes the organisation of the open office space legible.
- How is uniform lighting of office workstations achieved?
Large-format integrated light modules distribute light evenly across the work areas. This reduces pronounced differences in brightness between neighbouring workstations.
- How can meeting areas be highlighted within an open-plan office?
Meeting and communication areas can be given greater visual emphasis within the base lighting. At Colliers, this is achieved through targeted concentrations of light without disrupting the continuous grid of the office space.
- What are the advantages of office lighting integrated into the ceiling?
Lighting and ceiling structure can be designed as a single architectural system. This reduces the visual dominance of individual luminaires and gives the ceiling a clear, coherent order.
- How can an open-plan office remain spatially open despite different uses?
A shared underlying structure connects the different areas, while distinctions are introduced selectively within this system. Work, meeting and communication zones can therefore be differentiated without visually separating them.
- What role do sightlines play in the lighting design of open office spaces?
Continuous sightlines support the perception of large open office spaces. A consistently extended lighting grid can reinforce this spatial direction and maintain visual continuity over greater distances.
