At Powerplant, we build scale models and blueprints of the future to test and experience ideas. Coffee is getting scarcer. Office relevance is under pressure. Eating habits are becoming more individual. What implications does this have for coffee at work? And what alternatives or additions are all possible?
Powerplant designs offices with a wide range of energy zones, meeting the highest health standards and dynamic programming.
Our goal is to create different workflows in workspaces. This leads to optimal productivity, while our hospitality spaces encourage interaction and serve energetic food and drinks. With the Solution bar, we want to challenge the status quo of coffee at work.
Within an office, the coffee bar is often a central hub for energy and conviviality.
Although coffee has evolved from traditional filter machines to a range of espresso-based drinks and skilled baristas, we think changing eating and drinking habits and fluctuating bean prices present opportunities to think about the coffee bar of the future. We are exploring alternative ways to generate energy and socialize in the workplace.
At Workplace Xperience, we presented the Solution Bar, a food performance curated by David Kulen and Delphine Bagnol. The Solution Bar serves as a model or blueprint for what is possible. By presenting a radical menu, we initiated an open discussion about hospitality needs in the workplace today and in the future.
Within Workplace Design, multiple design disciplines come together to create one world, and my challenge is to make these worlds unique and appropriate for each company and its employees. Creating an experience is only becoming more important to get people connected to company and culture. From designing hospitality venues, I'm not used to creating engaging experiences any other way. I see that the thoughts and methods of hospitality design are becoming increasingly relevant in workplace design.
David Kulen
