New office interior at A11

New office interior at A11

an office built from what remains

Our office is located in the transformed national monument A11 on the Hembrug site, which carries a long narrative

A narrative that we have continued to write.

Part of which is our office interior,
which consists of three chapters:

the terrazzo floor made from ground tombstones

the CLT interior built from an Audi pavilion

the wall covering made from residual wool

The terrazzo floor made from ground tombstones

We discovered that tombstones from cleared graves are treated as waste

waste that ends up buried beneath highways.

This struck us as both absurd and disrespectful:

precious natural stone and cultural heritage reduced to rubble.

We managed to acquire 25 tons of discarded gravestones for free

After we had ground them into pebbles we could give the tombstones a new meaning

The pebbles had to be sorted for the terrazzo. 4-10 millimetres. Not too big nor too small

Shifting through the crushed tombstones was a reflective and moving process

Then we started experimenting

With the help of terrazzo maker Markus Schulze, we laid the entire terrazzo floor

The CLT-interior built from an Audi-pavilion

In 2023, A&A Expo built Audi’s most innovative pavilion to date.

It stood in the center of Munich during the International Automobile Exhibition (IAA)

Which lasted four days

After dismantling the pavilion, A&A listed the used CLT wood on Marktplaats, where we found it

We bought it and sawed it using their CNC machine

In such a way that we could stack them like legos

The wall covering made from residual wool

In the Netherlands, over 1.6 million kilos of sheep wool are produced each year.

Only one-eighth of it is used, the rest is burned.

The Hollands Wol Collectief processes this surplus into felt,
which we used for acoustic wall panels.

An undervalued residual product gains a new worth

The integration of these three narratives creates a harmonious and unique working environment
in which every surface tells a story of

circularity, craftsmanship, and life cycles,

adding meaning to the everyday use of space.

New office interior at A11

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