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Sound Balance Acoustic Elements by SIGEL GmbH

Sound Balance Acoustic Elements

Golden A' Design Award Winner 2020

SIGEL GmbH's Sound Balance Acoustic Elements operates within an iconographic tradition linking geometric abstraction to ideals of rational order, functional beauty, and the perfectibility of lived environment through thoughtful design intervention. The rectangular module functions symbolically as fundamental unit of systematic thought, evoking architectural building blocks, typographic grids, and the modular proportional systems that have organized Western design philosophy from Vitruvian man through Le Corbusier's Modulor. The chromatic progression through blues, grays, and neutrals carries associations of intellectual clarity, professional competence, and emotional equilibrium, colors historically linked to wisdom, contemplation, and trustworthiness across Northern European visual traditions. The asymmetrical yet balanced arrangement suggests ordered complexity, a visual metaphor for sophisticated problem-solving that achieves harmony through calibrated difference rather than simple repetition. Depth variations creating subtle shadow lines invoke architectural concepts of thickness, presence, and material honesty, each panel asserting its existence as dimensional object rather than mere surface treatment. The dialogue between refined panels and raw concrete envelope encodes meaning about the relationship between human cultivation and material nature, designed intervention and found condition, culture and ground. The sparse furnishing and single lamp suggest monastic simplicity, focused attention, and the creative potential of uncluttered space, archetypes of the studio, the study, the contemplative cell where thought achieves form. Natural light entering obliquely carries traditional associations with revelation, clarity, and truth, while its geometric shadow patterns extend the installation's systematic language across horizontal floor plane, unifying vertical and horizontal, wall and ground, into coherent spatial poetry.

Sigel’s Sound Balance range brings peace to the workplace while adding an aesthetic touch. This acoustic system solution comprises 34 wall and room elements with highly effective sound absorption and a design that is bound to impress. It is an intelligently designed solution to the problem of noise in open-plan offices. All Sound Balance products can be combined as required and unite modern design language, elegant trapeziums and three stylish colours with premium product quality.