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SCALE

-Layer x Woven Image

Saturday Indesign Hong Kong.
12.15

Benjamin Hubert of experience design agency Layer has designed Scale, a super flexible, modular acoustic partition system for Asia Pacific textile design and interior finishes company, Woven Image. Scale has been three years in development, and the rigorous design process involved 15 prototyping stages to develop the robust solution. 

Foundation layer
Layer is the evolution of leading design agency Benjamin Hubert Ltd.
Today, the growing team delivers award-winning and market leading experiences across strategy, industrial design and UX/UI.
 
From app design and wearables to smart domestic appliances, fast moving consumer goods, and intelligent furniture systems, we create products that meet the demands of tomorrow today.

Posted 12 December 2015

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High performance sustainability
Sustainability is about more than recyclability. Scale is not only produced from sustainable materials but the system can adapt to the needs of a commercial interior over time. For example a workplace growing and shrinking, with flexible work and break-out areas as teams are created and dissolved or a hotel that has mixed use public spaces with a variety of needs. The innate product adaptability therefore extends the product’s lifespan and decreases its carbon footprint.

Layer: Scale
Photo: Chris Gloag

Layer: Scale
Prototypes
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The environmentally sustainable system comprises pressed recycled hemp tiles, available in a range of colours, which clip onto an injection-moulded ABS framework mounted on aluminium base plates. Intuitive mechanical fixings have been developed for ease of both assembly and disassembly.

Scale can be used in commercial spaces, hotels, convention centres and other interiors requiring high performance acoustic separation to create straight walls and gently curved corners. The system can be used to create both solid and fenestrated walls, and the 330mm x 330mm tiles have a large surface area for super-efficient audio absorption. 

In our words
“Workplaces today are constantly in flux, with teams organically growing and shrinking as projects demand. Commercial interior spaces need to be able adapt to these demands and Scale for Woven Image delivers a solution to enable this with both flexibility and adaptability, whilst retaining a strong sense of visual engagment.”
Benjamin Hubert, founder Layer

“I believe the emerging work environments will be enriched with our new product Scale: a sculptural space divider providing elegance with improved acoustics which is easily demountable and versatile”
Bettina Groves, new business director, Woven Image 

Layer: Scale
Photo: Chris Gloag

Layer: Scale
Photo: Chris Gloag

Intuitive installation
Scale is a stand-alone system and, unlike existing acoustic partition systems, it is an intuitive out-of-the-box solution that requires no installation expertise, tools to assemble, or integration with the build architecture. The framework intuitively clips together using a polymer bolt system, and the tiles clip simply to the framework using magnetic fixings. In response to the growing trend of flexible workspaces, the structure is simple to modify and tiles are easily interchangeable. 

Layer: Scale
Photo: Chris Gloag

Layer: Scale
Photo: Chris Gloag

Layer: Scale
Photo: Chris Gloag

In detail
Pressed recycled hemp acoustic tile.
Injection Moulded Recyclable ABS
Recycled Aluminium stand
Each module: H 330mm x W 330mm x D 50mm 

Layer: Scale
Design
Photo: Chris Gloag

Layer: Scale
Photo: Chris Gloag

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