TechQuartier

POOL22 brought me in as computational designer for their contract at TechQuartier — an innovation hub in Frankfurt requiring custom interior furniture and surfaces throughout the space.

Working together with the in-house manufacturing team, we designed and built the parametric faceted geometries for everything inside: wall cladding, seating, telephone cabinets and elevated work desks with built-in wall monitors.

CategoryFurniture
ClientPOOL22
RoleComputational Designer
Year2017
TechQuartier hub interior — installed faceted furniture and wall systems
Approach

Faceted geometries generated parametrically for every surface, seat and room in the space.

  • Parametric surface development

    Built the Grasshopper definitions that generate complex and unique faceted surface geometries, applied consistently across wall cladding, furniture and spatial objects throughout the floors.

  • ChillBox seating

    Designed and modeled the ChillBox seat modules: faceted upholstered forms with a CNC-cut structural frame derived directly from the parametric system, resolved to fabrication tolerances.

  • Telephone cabinets

    Developed the sonically isolated enclosures, resolving the angular joint geometry parametrically and generating production-ready drawings and assembly documentation.

  • Monitor wall

    Created the algorithm-driven monitor wall — faceted panel layout generated to tolerance, with full CNC routing guides, mass drawings and dimension documentation for direct handoff to fabrication.

T-beam cabinet — perspective render
TELEPHONE CABINETS — 3D CONCEPT
TechQuartier hub — installed interior, faceted wall system
TELEPHONE CABINETS — FACETED WALL SYSTEM
TechQuartier hub — interior with seating and faceted surfaces
Interior — seating and faceted surfaces
TechQuartier hub — interior overview
ChillBox seating
ChillBox seating — parametric render
ChillBox seating — 3D concept
ChillBox — polyplan fabrication drawing
CHILLBOX — PARAMETRIC FABRICATION DRAWINGS
TechQuartier hub — installed interior detail
Installed interior — detail
TechQuartier hub — interior with faceted furniture
MONITOR WALL — INSTALLED
Monitor wall — CNC routing guide
MONITOR WALL — OPTIMIZED SHAPE NESTING FOR CNC MILLING
TechQuartier hub — monitor wall installed
MONITOR WALL — DETAILS
Monitor wall — mass and dimension diagram
MONITOR WALL — DESIGN AND DIMENSIONS
Monitor wall — Grasshopper algorithm
Monitor wall — Grasshopper algorithm
Monitor wall — fabrication dimensions
Monitor wall — fabrication dimensions