Vitra Work Orgatec 2016Work was conceived in collaboration with Los Angeles-based designer Jonathan Olivares for Vitra at the 2016 Orgatec fair. The idea was to consider how to reinvent the fair and to conceptually present a broader view of the office environment today, creating a place where thoughts are shared and thinking and exchange happens. We wanted to come up with an interesting way to approach this unique situation. We also wanted to use it as a tool to talk about work and where work is going, and what the future of the workplace is. The spatial layout of the exhibition hall was organised like a ‘city’. It functions as an open marketplace of like-minded, yet diverse companies – all enclosed within a five-metre-high “horizon” made from 300m of fabric panels with a gradient that changed colour from dawn to dusk from soft pink to deep blue. This shared horizon provided a backdrop and also created an artificial passing of time. We wanted to create this movement from sunrise to sunset, a circular movement in the space. When Each of the 12 brands exhibiting had their own stand and were also displayed together in a series of “collage offices”. These three collage offices were designed to show the individual needs of different workplaces and manifested in three typologies: an office with a need for a high degree of flexibility, a workplace environment for digital nomads and a studio-like office that merges the gap between the workspace and home. Design: Pernilla Ohrstedt Studio & Jonathan Olivares | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |