An office renovation with purpose

A move from the traditional floor plan

After extensive renovation, the Rockfon office in the city of Roermond in the Netherlands reopened in 2023. An area of 700 square metres was transformed into an activity-based workplace by Judith Muijtjens, founder of the design firm Wonderful Day Design.

Whether focus areas or collaboration zones, team members can now choose where to work from while enjoying the varied features of the acoustic solutions that they’ve helped to build and shape.

Practice what you preach

Initial plans to renovate the Rockfon office sprouted in 2019 when an internal survey revealed that employees were facing difficulties concentrating due to a noisy working environment primarily caused by wall-to-wall sound leakage. Their focus flows were regularly disturbed by the conversations that they could hear from adjacent rooms.

Additionally, the traditional floor plan wasn’t optimised and there was a poor balance between areas for independent work, collaboration, and breakout.

“Employees often achieved more work from home than at the office,” explains Roger Dezaire, Commercial Director Benelux at Rockfon.

It became evident that the team members wanted to see their workplace improved. As the world's leading acoustic company, Rockfon stands for excellence in acoustic performance, indoor environmental quality, and occupant well-being. An office that lacks across those facets needed to be remedied.

“We approached their complaints with the motto of ‘practice what you preach’”.