view of three work nooks in a row
Glass framed in lacquered aluminum encloses the conference room.

July 23, 2024

Words: Lisa Di Venuta

Photography: Elton Rocha

Bold Hues and Clean Lines Define Tripledot’s Barcelona Office

NT is full of surprises. The studio and showroom were founded by Jordi Martin in Barcelona, yet NT stands for Nordicthink. And, although his interiors projects—all Scandi-esque minimalist, simple, and functional—skew more residential, he just completed a 10,000-square-foot office in the Spanish city for Tripledot, a mobile game developer headquartered in London. It’s pre- cisely for those reasons that the company hired NT. That and, “The office manager is from here and knew of our work,” Martin begins, “and sought something homey, with local personality.”

The studio’s largest commercial project to date, Martin and his team organized the vast floor plate into an archipelago of operational, relaxation, and social zones for Tripledot Barcelona’s staff of 70. The brief called for chromatic hues and whimsical installations, “Like Google,” Martin notes—but you won’t find any scooters here. Instead, spaces are bright and airy, outfitted in far-from-corporate modern and contemporary furnishings and unique acoustical solutions, with nods to the company colors and output.

dining area with orange exposed ceiling
An exposed ceiling painted Tripledot orange unifies the café, with Patrick Norguet Abril chairs and a You and Me ping-pong table by Antoni Pallejà Office, and the gaming area.

The reception lounge is a perfect example. A trio of playful sofas—their deconstructed profiles resembling chain links, their fabric color-blocked in citrus, azul, and emerald tones, a logo-derived palette achieved by NT using the National Color System (Spain, Sweden, Norway, and South Africa’s version of the Pantone Matching System) that appears throughout— face a partition on which Martin installed a mosaic of square fabric baffles in softer shades that riffs off the Triple Tiles video game. “The lighter accents help generate cohesion,” he explains. But an energizing orange is the main course in the café, its ceiling, structural beams, and enormous modular sofa boasting the shade. That’s also where amenities befitting a game developer—PlayStation consoles, ping pong, arcade machines—are found.

A conference room and several meeting rooms dot the perimeter, the former enclosed by 1⁄2-inch-thick glass and the latters’ walls lined with fluted panels of PET felt—one room even references Barcelona icon Antoni Gaudí. Additional local flavor comes in the form of banquette nooks. There’s a trio of them too, each monochromatically dressed top to bottom in one of the logo colors, their vaulted recesses recalling Catalan caverns.

Walk Through Tripledot’s Colorful Office in Barcelona

tripledot reception signage with blue and orange and green ottomans
In the entry, the logo informed the shape of the custom benches.
kitchen island with blue bar stools
Top pendant fixtures by Big-Game illuminate the kitchen island.
orange working nook
Each of the three nooks is appointed with a TR sconce by Tim Rundle and fluted PET felt paneling to dampen sound.
green working nook
Green office nook.
blue working nook
Blue-hued office nook.
fluted tan wall with neon words reading La Pefrera
The same wall treatment outfits a meeting room, one of six, with a Verner Panton Flowerpot pendant, Hee Welling Rely chairs, and a custom neon sign referencing the early 20th–century Barcelona building by Antoni Gaudí.
common area with gray flooring and shapely couches
Beneath a lounge’s pendants lined with sound-absorbing Ecodrop, Link and Loop sofas by Raw Color gather before a partition hosting an arrangement of wood-wool acoustic baffles inspired by the Triple Tiles video game.
view of three work nooks in a row
Glass framed in lacquered aluminum encloses the conference room.
slated wood walls with two open doors to the restrooms
Slatted MDF paneling clads the restroom corridor.
orange common area with couches
Sections of the gaming area’s Gin modular sofa by Terence Woodgate face a structural beam’s color-matched fireproofing spray.

FROM FRONT CAMIRA FABRICS: BANQUETTE FABRIC (NOOKS). ESPATTIO: CHAIRS (CAFÉ), STOOLS (KITCHEN). ONDARRETA: TABLES (CAFÉ). NORDIC TALES: PENDANT FIXTURES. RS BARCELONA: PING-PONG TABLE. MUUTO: PENDANT FIXTURES (KITCHEN). INALCO: ISLAND SURFACING. AUDO: SCONCES (NOOKS). SLALOM: PET PANELING (NOOKS, MEETING ROOM), CEILING FIXTURES (LOUNGE). &TRADITION: PENDANT FIXTURE, CHAIRS (MEETING ROOM). PEDRALI: TABLES (MEETING ROOM, CONFERENCE ROOM). SANCAL: SOFAS (LOUNGE). BAUX: WALL BAFFLES. PUNT MOBLES: MODULAR SOFA (GAMING AREA). THROUGHOUT ECOCERO; FINSA: WOODEN PANELING. TARKETT: CARPET TILE.

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