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Workplace / Interior Design, Graphic Design, BIM & Architectural Visualization — 2020 · Swipe

Swipe

Swipe's open-plan office: black desks and mesh chairs under a slatted timber ceiling band, glazed meeting rooms on the left and the lime-green brand wall at the far end.

Interior design, environmental graphics, BIM modelling and architectural visualization for Swipe's own workplace in Accra — seven plates that carry a single lime-green identity from the logo through to the walls, the glass and the wayfinding.

The office is a straightforward open plan made deliberate by one colour. Desks, task chairs, boardroom table and shelving are all black; the floors are pale plank with green carpet tiles marking the routes and the meeting rooms; and lime is reserved for the surfaces that speak — the Finance Team panel at the arrival, the CEO sign, and the swipe logotype applied to the glazed meeting-room wall.

The graphic design was done as part of the interior rather than after it. Identification is set into the architecture: painted wall panels, lettering on glass, and signage that reads at the same scale as the partitions, so the brand survives being seen through a room full of people and plants.

The space was modelled in BIM, which is what let the ceilings, services runs and glazed partitions be coordinated before the camera ever arrived. The same model produced the renders, so the lighting studies and the construction logic are looking at the same building.

The set covers the floor in both moods: the reception view in its brighter grade, the open plan from either end, the boardroom, the breakout counter and lounge with its floor cushions, and one evening pass of the branded glass.

All seven plates are 3D visualizations produced from the design model rather than photographs of the fitted-out office.

Reception & Team Walls

The arrival side of the floor in its brighter grade

Swipe - Reception and the Finance Team wall in its brighter grade, where the lime wall, the green carpet tiles and the planting read cleanly and a man in a dark suit walks past the glass.

Open Plan

Workstations under a slatted timber band, with the brand on the glass

Swipe - The open-plan floor from the meeting-room side: rows of black desks and mesh task chairs under a slatted timber ceiling band, glazed partitions on the left, and the lime accent wall carrying the swipe logotype at the far end.
Swipe - Looking back along the same open-plan run, with the branded glass wall now on the right, workstations receding to a bright window, and a low teal pouf in the foreground.

Boardroom

A glazed meeting room off the main run

Swipe - The boardroom: a long black conference table with eight chairs on a green carpet strip, a wall-mounted screen at the head, glazed walls either side and a single linear pendant running the length of the ceiling.

Breakout & Lounge

The black counter, the green wall and the floor cushions

Swipe - The breakout counter in its evening grade, a black stone-topped bar with two pale stools in front of a deep green wall, a plant on the counter and the office glowing beyond.
Swipe - The lounge corner in daylight: a black counter and stools against a lime wall, yellow and teal floor cushions on pale plank flooring, and a glazed meeting room looking through to the desks beyond.

Branded Glass at Night

The swipe logotype backlit on the meeting-room glass after dark

Swipe - After dark, the meeting-room glass carries the backlit swipe logotype while a figure crosses the office behind it, the interior reduced to green panels and pools of light.