Location
Berlin, Germany

Type of Work
Commercial / Office adaptation and reuse, An exercise in adaptive reuse and circular design: existing furniture from an earlier fit-out is reworked and reinterpreted to serve a growing company in a new space.

Overview
Rather than starting anew, the project asked us to respect prior investment and to craft a coherent workplace that carries its history forward while meeting new functional demands.

Our Beginning
Furniture and fittings from the 2018 office bore strong formal character but did not correspond to the proportions or workflow of the new premises. The brief required continuity of identity while enabling growth.

Key interventions
• Engineering for reuse: furniture was disassembled, structurally adapted and reassembled to fit new volumes.
 • Fil rouge development: a visual system was created to link historic pieces with new inserts and surfaces.
 • Material updates: selective refinishes were applied to harmonise patina and scale with contemporary inserts.
 • Sustainability: reuse reduced embodied carbon and preserved the client’s capital.

Role of the team
Atelier Ottimo led the aesthetic system and detailing; Berliner Bautechnik engineered the structural alterations and executed joinery modifications. Close collaboration secured catalogue-quality precision in a bespoke rework.

Transformation
The office now reads as a single, layered identity rather than a patched collection. Historic pieces sit comfortably beside new elements, giving the space continuity, resilience and a clear, lived-in character — a practical example of design circularity.