Silver A' Design Award Winner 2025
The spatial vocabulary of Nara Grossi's Enjoei Headquarter Office operates through a sophisticated system of symbolic communications that speak to contemporary workplace values while drawing upon deep wells of design heritage and archetypal spatial experience. The circular rug functions as a mandala-like organizing principle, its bounded geometry creating sacred territory within the larger open plan, the folk botanical patterns evoking agrarian traditions of hand-crafted textiles and connecting digital-age work to ancestral making. The color triad of yellow, orange, and green distributed across furnishings and pattern work activates associations with vitality, warmth, and natural growth, suggesting an organizational culture that values energy and organic development. The curved sofa with its scalloped back introduces feminine, nurturing formal language that softens the masculine industrial vocabulary of exposed structure above, this dialogue between polarities creating dynamic balance. Chrome tubular furniture references Bauhaus ideology of democratic design through industrial production, while the singular yellow chair performs as spatial punctuation, its saturated hue functioning semiotically as invitation and energy marker. The mosaic column operates as axis mundi, a vertical anchor suggesting permanence and craft within the flux of contemporary work, its tessellated surface carrying associations with ancient architectural traditions of hand-placed materials. The exposed ceiling, rather than concealed behind dropped panels, speaks to values of transparency and authenticity increasingly important in organizational culture, while its warm illumination transforms potential harshness into embracing atmosphere. Arched openings in the background reference classical and Mediterranean architectural traditions, their curved geometry suggesting threshold and passage, psychological transition between work modes. The motion-blurred figure confirms human presence and temporal flow, preventing the space from reading as static stage set and affirming its identity as living environment shaped by and for human activity.
Enjoei by Gema Arquitetura is a workplace in Oscar Niemeyer's Copan building in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Occupying an area of 2.100 m2, the design concept was structured with three goals in mind: sustainability, accessibility and a sense of belonging. The project focused on understanding scales, bringing contrast between materials and creating a fluid environment where each element connects. Designed for people, the space is calm, quiet and futuristic. Results speak for themselves: with most people coming from home offices everywhere, the team now is upbeat working in this space every day.