HOWEL offices in Lille: Inspiring living and working spaces with a positive impact

Guillaume Da Silva Architectures Intérieures designed the HOWEL@ project, inspired by its surroundings. The particularly verdant Parc du Verseau, where AVENTIM chose to locate its building, echoes the commitments to eco-construction and quality of life at work made by this innovative project owner.

Plant inspiration and architectural design

The wood-frame building, designed by COLDEFY Architectes, also guided our design. The inspiration came naturally from plants. We wanted to use flowing forms inspired by nature. The plan of the central pebble-shaped core structures the space and the general layout. These pebbles house the collaborative spaces and meeting rooms, giving them the intimacy they need.

The whole of this central core is fitted with false ceilings to house all the technology, and to preserve as much as possible of the wooden ceilings and structures, which we wanted to leave unfinished, allowing users to enjoy unusual ceiling heights of over 3.20 m in the offices.

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A bright, soothing workspace

At the center of these pebbles, under the glass roof, the monumental staircase unfurls like an origami through an indoor forest, creating a strong link with the vegetation outside. The greenery, a source of well-being, allows workers to breathe and relax. Trees over 4.5 m tall were planted to create this forest.

The materials used by the interior design team are also inspired by plants: a range of greens, carpet with a gradation effect in lichen tones, oak veneers, copper-toned partition frames...

Around this staircase is a meeting place, an agora symbolized on the floor by a footprint of randomly laid, reused oak parquet, where an XXL bar with generous, rounded shapes is set at the entrance, immediately putting visitors in a convivial working atmosphere, far removed from the usual codes.

Peripheral offices are fully glazed, creating bright, fluid spaces.

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As with all his projects, interior designer Guillaume Da Silva has enhanced this scenography with a careful lighting scheme that allows the materials and spaces to stand out.
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