DESIGN HIVE
"Rottet Studio's suite, in a calm neutral palette, evokes the aura of a boutique hotel on, say, the Moon. The conference room pull shades contain a panoramic image of Neil Armstrong at Tranquillity Base, above bean bag chairs covered in white shag. That room also has a pinball machine. Rottet designed two types of long, shared tables - one zig-zaggy, with a central rail for holding pencils and sticky notes; the other more of an open jigsaw puzzle of parts that can be configured dozens of ways. All the materials, down to the linoleum entry floor, work surfaces and textured, sound-absorbing Tectum walls are environmentally pure, free of chemical off-gas materials."
Design Hive Houston was a competition by the developer Brookfield which brought four of the most reputable brand name firms in Houston (Gensler, Inventure, Ziegler Cooper, and Rottet) together to redesign the thirty-seventh floor in 1600 Smith Street in downtown Houston. Using Rottet's floor layout, each team was given one of the four suites and asked design "the office of the future."
My personal contribution to the project included but not limited to the moon landing roller shades, heavy involvement conference room table design, work space table design, material selection, floor finish layout, and project management during construction.
