The Human Nature collection offers more natural looking floors providing an increase in relaxing interiors for the office.

KUALA LUMPUR: Interface, a worldwide leader in design, manufacture of carpet tiles, and widely recognised as an environmental pioneer, took part in ARCHIDEX, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from the Aug 12 to 15, 2015. The company offered  visitors inspiration and education on how to design interior spaces that can increase employee well-being, as well as introduce a range of products in Interface’s signature Skinny Planks™ format.

Commenting on this is Interface Asia marketing head Clark Harris, “By reconnecting the people who work in the spaces we create with the splendor of nature we can support them to be more creative, potentially discovering new solutions to today’s complex challenges and to literally think ‘beautifully’.”

The Global Impact of Biophilic Design in the Workplace Report, commissioned by Interface and led by Organisational Psychologist Professor Sir Cary Cooper, revealed that employees who work in environments with natural elements report 15 percent higher level of well being, 6 percent more productivity and 15 percent more creativity.

The global study of 7,600 office workers, in 16 countries, examined the impact of the physical office environment on employee well-being. It concluded that office design was so important to workers that a third (33%) of global respondents stated it would unequivocally affect their decision whether to work somewhere. Incredibly, design was even more vital in India (67%), Indonesia (62%) and the Philippines (60%), where two thirds of office workers were significantly influenced by workplace design.

Commenting on what the research findings could mean for design in the office space, executive creative director Chip DeGrace said, “What we can clearly identify is that there needs to be an ongoing evolution of the traditional office space, and it seems that as a global population, we are becoming ever more cognizant of our surroundings and how they impact our well-being, productivity and creativity at work.”

The report is available at Humanspaces.com, a web portal designed to provide an introduction for people wishing to explore biophilic design for the first time, and as a community  to engage and interact with some of the world’s leading writers and advocates of biophilic design.

New collections from Interface featured at ARCHIDEX
The Bike Path™ Collection delivers a range of colours across two style lines. BP410 is the solid base upon which BP411 with its accent colours is built. The simplicity of its design, with straight lines and a clean-cut appearance are perfect for designing way-finding and directional cues into the floor. The directionality of urban bike paths inspired this two-style collection that steps everything up a gear.

The frequency of colour is the study behind the Harmonize™ & Ground Waves™ Collection. The design intent is to provide a pitch-perfect balance for high-performing spaces that transform and inspire its inhabitants. Harmonize subtly blends just the right notes of color, contrast and texture to create a calm and relaxing base to which you can add intensity, courtesy of its up-tempo partner Ground Waves. Apply Ground Waves to punch a rhythm with two vibrant accent bands for each of the nine neutrals in this shared palette.

Adding on to the block coloured On Line™ Collection with its simple, classy linear pattern, Off Line™ is introduced, pairing colours from On Line together into a single tile, forming a bridge between the colours that allow you to create transitions between neutrals and brights, hard lines and soft. Colour splashes along Off Line’s edge vary in thickness and intensity to create natural progression across a shared colour palette.

The more vibrant shades of the Off Line On line collection

The Aerial™ Collection consists of AE310 in Interface’s signature square format, and AE311 in the Skinny Planks format. The collection celebrates the geometry of our cities and the beautiful aesthetic of their network of interlacing lines. The Aerial collection is available in eight colours drawn from those most frequently used in commercial offices in CBD’s across the Asia-Pacific region. Its geometry and tonal spread make the Aerial collection extremely easy to use.

The vital, mysterious link between the nature we observe and this same nature within ourselves is the inspiration behind Interface’s Human Nature™ Collection – a range of carpet tiles that remind us of the materials, textures and tones we find in the natural world. These multi-faceted, multi-hued carpet tiles may be mixed and matched to create interior spaces that echo the infinite variety of the natural landscape as one type of topography gives way to another. The collection inspires a belief that where we create can affect what we create, that when geometry fuses with nature, beautiful things happen.