(05)Projects/Workspace

Studio 41

Ghent, Belgium / 2024

Concrete room with a black framed artwork, lit by a raking shaft of daylight

Location: Ghent, Belgium
Year: 2024
Scope: Interior architecture / Furniture
Area: 220 m²
Status: Completed
Materials: Concrete / Oak / Steel

A former print works turned into a workspace for twelve people, with one rule: no room without a window.

The building came with a concrete frame, a north-light roof and decades of residue. We cleaned it, cut four new openings and added only what a working day needs: a long oak table, shelving in blackened steel, a kitchen that doubles as a meeting room.

Concrete room with a chair, a small round table and a patch of sunlight on the wall — **Fig. 01**Meeting corner, late afternoon

Daylight across a rough plaster wall beneath a timber-framed window — **Fig. 02**Mezzanine window, rough plaster

Window shadows cast across a pale concrete wall — **Fig. 03**Library wall at noon

“A workplace should be quiet enough to hear yourself think.”

Matte brushed steel panel with fine vertical grain — **Detail**Blackened steel shelving

Small table and folding chairs among plants in a shadowed concrete room — **Fig. 04**Tea corner, planted and shaded

DetailOak worktop, oil finish

Credits

Architecture: Elise Martens
Interior architecture: Julien De Clercq
Objects & furniture: Mila Verhaeghe
Furniture fabrication: Atelier Houtwerk (fictional)
Photography: Placeholder — see README

Fictional project. Names, figures and credits are placeholders created for a portfolio concept.

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