Workplace / Interior Design & 3D Visualization — 2014 · Centre Stage Management

CSM

The office seen along its workstation run: an all-in-one computer on a long white desk beneath white floating cabinets and a dark photographic wainscot, a chrome-framed task chair drawn out over a dark marble floor, a second workstation and an oversized wall clock on the far wall, and a glass-topped meeting table ringed with black chairs before an orange photo-collage feature wall

A 2014 office interior for Centre Stage Management in Tema: a single compact floor that had to hold a reception, two workstations and a meeting space, designed by RDVS and rendered before it was built.

The brief was deliberately tight — one small office that had to carry a reception, two workstations and a meeting space without any of the three feeling borrowed from the others. RDVS took the scheme from space planning through to photoreal visualization, resolving the joinery, finishes and lighting so the client could judge a full-size room from a floor plan’s worth of space.

The design argument was that a working environment is not neutral: output follows from how at ease people feel in a room, so the plan sets out to remove clutter from both the process and the thought. In practice that meant pushing storage into continuous white cabinetry and floating boxes, running the desks as one unbroken built-in counter, and keeping the ceiling and the pale walls plain so that the dark dado and a single saturated feature wall carry the room’s identity.

Two all-in-one workstations sit along that counter beneath the wall cabinets, with a glass-topped meeting table and chrome-framed task chairs occupying the rest of the open floor. A glazed partition with a frosted band separates the working area from a corridor, where an oversized clock anchors the wall outside the office and the copier is tucked into an alcove at the far end.

Reception is announced by the client’s initials: a desk whose front is lit from within in orange and lettered CSM, set on a dark marble-look floor with a two-seat leather sofa and a full-height wall of archival photographs overprinted in orange duotone behind it. The same mural recurs along the meeting wall, so the brand colour does the work that signage would otherwise have to.

The gallery was published to Behance in April 2014 as CENTRE STAGE MANAGEMENT - INTERIOR DESIGN, credited there to RDVS. DESIGN; the full set is on Behance.

The full floor from the workstation end: two all-in-one computers on white built-in desks beneath floating cabinets, a dark photographic dado along the wall, chrome task chairs on a dark marble floor, the glass meeting table to the right and an orange photo-collage wall beside a mirrored partition, with an oversized clock on the pale far wall

The meeting space from inside: a glass-topped table on chrome legs ringed with black ribbed chairs and an open magazine, two workstations beyond against dark panelled walls under white cabinets, and a low white sideboard carrying wooden mannequin figures and a sculpture at the right

The corridor: an oversized dark wall clock lettered only at the twelve, nine and six on a pale wall, a black ceiling baffle studded with downlights running toward a copier at the far end, grey marble floor tiles, and a frosted-band glass partition looking into the office

The reception: a desk with an internally lit orange front lettered CSM and an all-in-one computer on its counter, an oversized clock on the pale wall behind, a glass-walled meeting room at the centre, a full-height orange photo-collage mural at the right and the corner of a dark leather sofa in the foreground

The waiting corner: a two-seat grey leather sofa set against a full-height wall of archival photographs overprinted in orange duotone, a tall planter of green at the right, dark marble floor, and a frosted-band glass partition with the meeting chairs visible beyond