38 Newbury 7th Floor Interiors by Touloukian Touloukian
Located in Boston, Maine, United States, 38 Newbury 7th Floor Interiors reflects the design style of Touloukian Touloukian. Designed in 2024, this office project addresses the need for reimagined workspaces post-pandemic, embracing a residential feel over impersonal environments, while celebrating the history of a building that was constructed in 1920, revealing its architectural legacy through a modern lens and creating a bridge to “work from home” experiences.
Creative Solutions To Office Environments Post Pandemic
The post pandemic work experience has not only created new ways of working, but also the need to reimagine how workspaces bridge “work from home” experiences into a new office environment.
Dedicated Work Spaces That Are Comfortably Residential
We believe offices can create comfortable and productive spaces for the lives of their employees. Our client has risen above, asking us to the avoid the trend that promotes impersonal work spaces with multiple users and less space between them, but rather dedicated work spaces that are comfortably residential, amplifying productivity lessons learned from similar “work from home” experiences.
1920 Construction Implementation Inspired Interior Design Elements
Built in 1920, the eight story Boston Back Bay building construction implemented innovative early 20th century cast in place construction techniques that were concealed by traditional plaster and lathe flat ceilings. Since our clients are real estate developers, their love of Boston architecture is prominent and telling stories about our history, as well as advancing modernism, is a balance that we took on in our design process.
Acoustic Ceilings Mitigated Reverberation
Layered acoustic ceilings, with strategically located openings, reveal the existing concrete construction techniques dedicated to each space and use. In order to achieve acoustic performance while also celebrating the hard concrete vaults, we mitigated reverberation through a continuous fabric stretched absorptive ceiling plane with openings to the concrete ceilings above. In addition, double glazed wall systems installed between offices and conference rooms promote visual connectivity, while also strengthening acoustic privacy.
Two Design Objectives
The overall composition is an arrangement of surfaces, materials and furnishings that delicately balance spatial transparencies and acoustic separation, in order to create an office environment that tells Boston history while also bridging “work from home experiences” into a new office environment.
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