Relaxound: Colorful Berlin Office For Collaborative, Relaxed Work Life
Relaxound is a vivid new office in Berlin, Germany, by Bruzkus Greenberg that treats work as a mix of social exchange and concentrated focus. The project reshapes a double-height volume with intimate rooms and a fresh mezzanine, giving the company a physical home that reinforces its relaxed brand and shared culture. Color, light, and acoustic control shape how people move, gather, and withdraw over the course of the day.
Employees step into a bright, double-height studio where daylight washes over exposed beams and new mezzanines. Small, darker rooms sit close by, inviting quieter work and short retreats.
This is an office for Relaxound in Berlin, Germany, planned by Bruzkus Greenberg around the push and pull between collaboration and withdrawal. The workplace serves as a concrete anchor for company culture, countering the abstraction of remote work with rooms, levels, and views that keep people physically present. Program drives every move, from the open studio floor to the acoustically sealed niches and sliding-door cabins.
The heart of the project is the tall studio volume, now crossed by a new mezzanine that runs perpendicular to an existing one. Together they frame a central room where shared energy gathers and people see each other across levels. Low-ceiling zones then branch off into more intimate territory, where proportion and light shift from bright and extroverted to dimmer and more atmospheric. This sequence encourages staff to choose where and how they want to work during the day.
Balancing Contact And Refuge
The office is organized to support quick encounters as much as focused isolation. Large social areas with brighter color encourage informal talks, group sessions, and the casual contact that defines a shared workplace. Set just beyond them, small rooms with sliding doors provide strong acoustic separation, so someone can take a call, write, or think without background noise. Visual connections remain through glass walls, which maintain awareness of colleagues even when the soundtrack of the room is purposefully quiet.
Work here involves constant choice. Staff can drift between open studio tables, cozier small-group rooms, or fully enclosed cabins depending on task and mood. Informal spots for chilling, socializing, or eating together sit alongside more conventional desks, embedding relaxation and downtime into the daily rhythm rather than treating them as afterthoughts.
Material Logic For Acoustic Calm
Material organization supports both clarity and calm. Through-dyed MDF in blue reads as one solid tone from surface to cut edge, foregrounding its construction and giving walls a precise graphic quality. These planes slot into exposed wood beams, columns, and the steel mezzanine structure, forming an interlocked system of partitions and doors for the smaller rooms. Thin but massive layers of MDF separate cabins, while sound-absorbing fabrics, felt, and open-cell aluminum temper echo inside.
Every joint matters. All gaps between rooms are sealed so sound does not travel from one task zone to another, even across short distances. Yet the presence of large glass panels avoids any sense of secrecy; people can still see colleagues move, pause, and collaborate, which reinforces trust. Technical performance and social transparency work together here.
Color, Light, And Atmosphere
Color and light shift distinctly between areas to cue different ways of working. Large communal zones lean into vivid tones and stronger brightness, supporting louder conversations and group energy. In contrast, the small rooms are darker and cozier, with subdued palettes that encourage slower thinking and concentration. The general studio keeps a simple, reduced set of surfaces, avoiding excess visual noise that could distract from the task at hand.
Atmosphere becomes a tool for programming. Employees can gravitate toward a bright, cheerful corner when they need social contact, then slip into a hushed, atmospheric cabin for detailed work. This range of choices reflects Relaxound’s own products, which introduce calming natural sounds to everyday environments, tying the company’s physical workplace to its broader mission.
At the end of the day, the office reads as a layered field of work modes rather than a single open floor. People cross the double-height studio, climb the mezzanines, and duck into sliding-door rooms many times in a single afternoon. The project underlines how a carefully organized workplace can still matter deeply in an era of remote log-ins, giving a tangible setting where team identity, relaxed work, and daily rituals take form.
Photography by Noshe
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