3D BARCODE_ Inhabiting 6 converted shophouse units at the confluence of Singapore’s historic Chinatown area and the CBD, MOD’s own design studio employs the same key principles which govern its approach to design—typological relevance, a disciplined material and tonal palette and an ‘essentialized” concept.
Working on a single floor without hierarchy or barriers, our truly open office is choreographed in between the perimeter of twin datum lines —which form circulation axes spanning the entire space. Mirrored terminus points elongate these axes and become daily ‘catwalks’.
Resembling a barcode, a series of mixed program are position along these catwalks and range from gallery space, meeting spaces, open plan desks, hot desk discussion zones to a library.
The colour palette was intentionally limited to 2 key tones - black or white. The resulting monochromatic environment provides an inviting blank canvas upon which to imagine and create a host of distinctive and varied projects.
1. Winner, Designer of the Year, 2010 at International Design Awards, USA
2. Winner, Interior Designer of the Year, 2017 at Build Interior Design Awards, United Kingdom
3. Winner, Office Category, 2011 at World Architecture Festival, Spain
4. Winner, Interior Architecture Category, 2012 at Singapore Institute of Architecture Design Awards
5. Finalist, Best Design Studio, 2018 at INDE Awards, Australia
