Some of us at lifeiscarbon® have worked in some amazing looking advertising agency offices in London, New York, LA and Tokyo and all of us enjoy visiting innovative office interiors all over the world. Many of the spaces we’ve visited invest huge amounts of money to build environments that help maximize creativity (or perhaps to simply appear as though they do). For our money you can’t find a more creatively inspiring space than the average Scandinavian kindergaten. It might be to do with the scale of the furniture, the bright colors or the overall sense of organized chaos, or perhaps it’s simply that it reminds us of the inherent creativity that we all had in ourselves as kids. Perhaps this thought is the inspiration behind much of the work of Bosch & Fjord.
At Ordrup School in Gentofte, Denmark, the Danish design team of Bosch & Fjord have abandoned the idea of traditional school interiors and instead created a variety of spaces for differentiated teaching and creative thinking. In it you’ll find heightened window seating for watching the world outside, concentration booths, green platforms with red hot pots where discussion can buzz and bubble and large upholstered tubes for hiding with a good book or for spending some time alone.
Based on the premise that all people are different, think differently and learn differently, Bosch & Fjord have created a complete and challenging learning environment. Their design for the school is separated into three individual areas with distinct functions - Peace & Absorption, Discussion & Cooperation and Security & Presence – and by separating the activities and creating varied rooms they have created a space for both teaching and play, in which learning is optimized.
Bosch & Fjord is a collaboration between two visual artists, Rosan Bosch and Rune Fjord Jensen, who both consider art to have a social and cultural importance in society. They specialize in creating architectural projects in dialogue with companies and public institutions but only where art gets given a distinct function. The duo have created a number of amazing spaces that challenge traditional ways of thinking about the usage of space. In addition to the Ordrup School project they’ve also recently been working with LEGO to design meeting rooms, a reception and café area that will inspire and challenge the employees to increase the constant development at LEGO Group's Development Department in Billund.
Bosch & Fjord also offer unique design solutions for exhibitions, events and conferences as well as providing visual coaching for brainstorming and conceptual development. They’ve also recently published a great book that documents a wide selection of projects realized between 2002 – 2006.
We love so many of their projects that we're bound to be writing about Bosch & Fjord in the future but it's well worth checking out their website to see other interesting examples of their work.
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