THE OFFICE OF TOMORROW: A HYBRID FORMAT

Borina Andrieu

Director Wilmotte&Associes

Koray Malhan

Director of Design, Koleksiyon

Koray Malhan (born 1972) attended the Industrial Design Department at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in Istanbul, after which he received his degree in furniture design at the Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication in London in 1995. Malhan has been supervising the development of design projects, collaborations with architects and designers around the world, as well as creating the brand’s communication strategy. He has shaped the design language of Koleksiyon’s office furniture by studying the relationship between spaces and different generations and the concept of “work” with a main focus on people. He re-thinks the workspace dynamics of today and predicts the needs of the future by synthesizing his readings and studies in music, sociology, philosophy, semiology, architecture and linguistics. In this realm, inspired by Umberto Eco’s Opera Aperta, Malhan has developed fluid design concepts to offer freedom and flexibility for the continously changing work culture after a 4-year creation process. With his new “Self-Organised Workplace” concept, Koray Malhan challenges the centric and absolute approach to the workspace structure by designing solutions for the ever-changing and evolving needs of the progressive, non-hierarchical and collaborative work culture of today and tomorrow. The main idea is to involve the architects and users, as active participants in the design development phase and present dynamic solutions that are open for change. As the Design and Brand Director, Malhan currently manages the entire product portfolio of office & contract division. In addition to creating his own designs, he works closely with Koleksiyon’s partners including international designers and design studios to ensure that a consistent approach is sustained in product design and development. In 2012, Koray Malhan received 2012 Good Design Awards and Red Dot Product Design Awards with “Gala”, an office chair that he designed in collaboration with Gerhard Reichert and Heinrich Iglseder. In 2015, his sofa design “Ikaros” which doubles as a desk to enhance cross fertilization of ideas and discussions at the workplace won the MetropolisLIKES award as well as The Architect’s Newspaper’s Best of Product Award. One of Malhan’s latest designs, “Oblivion”, winner of the 2016 MetropolisLIKES award and the 2016 Design Turkey Superior Design Award, answers the modern-day quest for a creative space within traditional office layouts by creating private hubs for various uses.

Fabrice Delaneau

Fabrice Delaneau, has led many major business developments projects for architectural design, and furniture design companies, from around the world. He works from the development of the initial concept to the final completion and implementation of the project, with an emphasis on specifically maximizing the final successful result. At the same time, he provides project leadership and direction for the project, be they the Brands, the Designers and or the Companies themselves. He graduated from Paris Business School with a major in International Business. In 1998 he moved to China and witnessed the initial years of the country’s major rise and growth of the Design sector and development first hand. After more than 11 years of experience in PR China, he became fluent in Mandarin Chinese at UIBE. He has worked as an executive in the field of real estate with the Savills company and in telecommunication sector with the Sagem company. He established the very first WOFE specializing in luxury and high-end renovation of courtyard houses in China. His last projects while with M&A were the: Aman Resort in Beijing, located inside the Summer Palace, and with the Liuyin Park Project with the help of the Goulandris family, whom where the sole boutique investor in this project. His strong passion for architecture has now directed him down a new path. He has worked closely with both ADPI and Paul Andreu for 7 years as a Design Advisor. These are the companies which built the Grand National Theatre and The Pudong Airport in Shanghai. He was accepted to UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design graduated with an MSC in Architecture. He specialized in Leeds environmental certification where he has worked with Brightworks – the USA leader in this field, located in Portland, Oregon. Upon his return back to France in 2009, he became the General Manager of Ora-Ito Design Studio which he then transformed into a multidisciplinary practice within 2 years. They focused on large scale architectural projects with the Carlyle company, and they also secured the purchase of the rooftop site of Cité Radieuse in Marseille (known now as the foundation called, MAMO. In 2011 he created a consultancy agency to create bridges between brands, architects, designers and editors. As a person who believes in the strength of cross-cultural communication, he started to develop design-oriented relationships within Turkey. In 2012 he moved to İstanbul and developed multiple collaborations with well established brands such as: Stepevi, Autoban, ENNE, Koleksiyon and several others. His strongest asset is the unique ability to create strong cross synergies between the many diverse and different parts of his projects. He has also developed projects with global companies such as LVMH Group, Christofle, Vondom, Flos, Bolon, Roche-Bobois, Gien, Maison Dada, Leblon-Delienne, RBC and with architects and designers such as, Jean-Michel Wilmotte, Patrick Jouin, Autoban, Emir Uras, Christophe Pillet, Jose Levy, Thierry Dreyfus and Chafik Studio. For editorial, creative and marketing based projects, he works closely with Tony Chambers, Jerome Sans and 14 Septembre. Today his main customers are Roche-Bobois and Koleksiyon. For Roche-Bobois he is now heading up a new contract division for Europe. For the Koleksiyon company, he brings a fresh and new impetus for product design and new business opportunities. Most recently, the National University of Singapore and Raffles Design Institute have invited him as a guest lecturer on “Workspace Design”.