BECENTRAL - THE GALAXY
“‘We wanted to create a space where creative minds could feel inspired without it to be overwhelming.’”
Outside picture @becentral
Outside picture @becentral
Delivered - 2020
114 m2 dedicated to develop and share new ideas
The creative studio Maxime De Campenaere presents one of its last creation for BeCentral, the biggest digital campus of Europe. The design takes its inspiration from future and space exploration.
The aim of the project was to fulfill the client’s dream to provide inspirational spaces to young entrepreneurs.
Maxime De Campenaere, creative director: ‘We wanted to create a space where creative minds could feel inspired without it to be overwhelming.’
To succeed, the studio worked on senses. First by creating a horizon, using a luminescent grid reflecting in coppered and glass panels. Secondly by hanging the tables to the ceiling creating a sensation of lightness. The very simple layout combined to those two tricks create a very inspiring and positive environment to work.
The studio as always is using color and materials as way to stimulate creativity by bringing joy and emotion to spaces. The strong color palette associates a strong blue color in reference to space with fluorescent orange. The tiles are an ode to asteroid fields. and brings movement to the project.
‘The biggest Digital Campus of Europe’
BeCentral is a new digital campus located in Brussels Central Station. Co-founded and supported by more than 40 entrepreneurs, its mission is to bridge the digital skills gap and accelerate the digital transformation of Belgium, by hosting schools or digital workshops in an entrepreneurial ecosystem.
For this project, we have several constraints such as the need for our client to provide quality spaces at very competitive prices, as well as a significant speed in the delivery of spaces due to the rapid growth of the business. . Our expertise is therefore focused on four points:
1. a great speed of reaction throughout our mission;
2. quality design at a low price thanks to the constant development of new solutions via real-time monitoring of budgets;
3. A network of proven, fast, competitive and efficient contractors;
4. The recycling of a maximum of existing elements (window frames, doors) and the conservation or enhancement of certain existing historic elements (paneling, exposed concrete ceilings).