SAP BUILDING
DUBLIN
SAP is one of the world’s leading producer of software and
e-business support solutions in the global market.
SAP staff work in an entirely virtual world, literally a paperless office. In this context they are constantly working in the absence of tangible things. Creating specific distinctions between artificial and natural and allowing those distinctions to produce a form, the materials we chose were natural linen (with no pigmentation), bamboo (both as a wall paper and as a plant) and artificial flowers arranged on a grid amidst real asparagus and bamboo plants.
Fabric was used as a surface for lighting, shading and giving texture to the space. All ceilings are made from fabric sails suspended below the structural floor/roof. Non-dyed linen was stretched on ash frames to control light, view, and privacy and was used on partitions between workstations. Texture and the way it reveals the composition of a material were amplified. For example, veneers were oriented vertically to emphasize the grain which is very apparent in a veneer, flooring material was used on the wall so as to lessen the distinction between floor and wall in a constructional sense.
