Team

Lead Perit/i: Perit James Dingli, Perit Mark Cauchi, Perit Valentina Vella Falzon

Architectural Design: Perit James Dingli, Perit Mark Cauchi, Perit Valentina Vella Falzon

Interior Design: Perit James Dingli, Perit Mark Cauchi, Perit Valentina Vella Falzon

Building Systems Engineering: Ing. Ryan Xuereb

Project Management: 2Project

This project involved the complete transformation of a large workplace of approximately 700 sqm.

Prior to intervention, the office was an oppressive environment: maze-like in its circulation, oversaturated with artificial lighting, and devoid of natural light. The effect was disorienting and lab-like, undermining comfort, wellbeing, and productivity for those spending full days within the space.

Our redesign rethought the workplace from the ground up, with circulation, flow, natural light, and ventilation as central drivers. The goal was to create a clear, easily perceivable environment that prioritizes human experience. By reworking the layout, natural light became more accessible throughout the site, and where daylight could not physically reach, custom-designed light boxes were manufactured. These installations replicated the qualities of daylight while maintaining continuity with areas exposed to real natural light.

Materiality and finishes were chosen to enhance this sense of lightness while also introducing warmth and identity. A dark red ceiling anchors the space, transforming visible ventilation ducts and services into sculptural forms rather than concealing them. In contrast, walls and flooring were kept neutral to maximize brightness and spatial clarity.

Part of the design concept was to divide the workplace into private, semi-private, and public zones. This was achieved not only through the creation of “cubes within a cube” for managerial offices, but also through transitional layers. Materials such as polycarbonate and soft furnishings, including sheer curtains, added privacy without compromising airiness, transparency, or line of sight. Since the space had to evolve from accommodating 25 people to serving 90, partitions and volumes were carefully introduced to frame the site, creating permeable facades within the workplace itself. These interventions supported density while maintaining openness.

Furniture and joinery were conceived not as conventional office fixtures but as pieces closer to those found in the home. This approach allowed opportunities for personalization, enabling employees to make their spaces more approachable and comforting. Vegetation was a fundamental part of the design strategy from the outset. Rather than being introduced as an afterthought, plants were integrated into custom joinery and new furniture elements, such as desks with integrated planters. These green interventions reinforced the sense of light, air, and wellbeing, while softening the workplace environment.

The result is a workplace that shifts away from the disorienting, artificially lit maze of the past toward a coherent, light-filled, and human-centered space. It balances openness with privacy, functionality with warmth, and innovation with comfort. By considering every aspect — from natural and artificial light, to circulation, materials, furniture, and vegetation — the project creates a workplace that is not only efficient but also nurturing, reflective of the fact that people spend a significant part of their lives within it.

Images © Julian Vassallo

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Team

Architectural Design: AP Valletta

Planning Consulting: AP Valletta

Structural Engineering: AP Valletta

Interior Design: A Collective

Building Systems Engineering: Enser

Project Management: 2Project

The GO Campus is conceived as a model for future workplaces embodying adaptability, resilience, and environmental responsibility.

With architecture designed by AP Valletta and interiors by A Collective, the GO Campus design in Bulebel Industrial Estate reflects the client’s core values through use of sustainable innovative technologies. The project includes 5 blocks, accommodating a data centre, a gateway building, offices, a warehouse, a telephone exchange and ancillary facilities. AP adopted a people-oriented approach throughout the design cycle, prioritising the occupants’ needs by sustainably providing adequate comfort levels.

The same elements that provide comfort levels, such as the parametrically designed Building Integrated Photo Voltaic façades, contribute to the buildings’ aesthetics. The pixellated façades set on two layers offset from each other form an innovative brise-soleil system. The pattern was optimised to create a balance between the entry of natural light and shading, contributing to reducing energy consumption and creating an optimal working environment. 

High level bridges connect the blocks at second floor, encouraging social interaction, while green spaces further support the occupants’ well-being. Key environmental considerations included: extensive use of renewable energy sources and natural daylight, optimising energy efficiency beyond local regulation requirements, use of ventilated facades to reduce cooling loads, rainwater harvesting, landscaping with indigenous plant species, and ensuring durability through flexible design. The structure allows for potential evolution into other uses. The telecommunications market is volatile and rapid evolution of technology requires constant programmatic re-evaluation. 

In the same spirit, A Collective’s interior design reimagines the interiors of the office blocks as a flexible workplace rooted in adaptability. Responding to post-pandemic shifts in office culture together with contemporary work ethic, the fit-out establishes a dynamic environment that balances functionality with spatial clarity.

An industrial aesthetic defines the interior, with exposed services meticulously coordinated to maintain legibility, while raised flooring discreetly channels power and data to enable effortless reconfiguration of work clusters. Workstation zones run along the expansive north-facing glazed elevations to harness diffused daylight, while meeting rooms line the south façade, where BIPV facade filters daylight into a calm, focused atmosphere.

At the heart of each floor, a central hub evokes the character of a courtyard. A tonal shift in flooring anchors the space, complemented by suspended felt baffles providing acoustic comfort and a sense of enclosure. A custom steel-and-timber beverage station separates lounge seating and high tables, encouraging interaction and respite. Above the main work areas, a geometric steel framework integrates lighting and wood-wool acoustic panels, its rhythm culminating in a row of pods for informal collaboration.

The material palette reflects GO’s identity while embracing authenticity and craft: terrazzo inset with orange marble fragments, sculptural ceramic tiling, and finely detailed joinery sit in dialogue with textured concrete and exposed structural layers. Together, these elements create a workplace which is tactile and attuned to the evolving demands of contemporary work.

By uniting sustainable strategies, adaptive architecture, and a sense of identity, GO Campus demonstrates how design can foster resilience—supporting environmental goals and the shifting culture of modern work.

Images © Julian Vassallo, Ramon Portelli

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Team

Lead Perit/i: MODEL, MODEL

Architectural Design: MODEL, MODEL

Planning Consulting: MODEL, MODEL

Structural Engineering: MODEL, MODEL

Conservation: MODEL, MODEL

Interior Design: MODEL, MODEL

Project Management: MODEL, MODEL

An architecture studio has created its own workshop inside a former carpenter’s warehouse in Marsa, designing an open-plan office which draws inspiration from the true essence of Maltese vernacular architecture.

The building was initially conceived as a farmhouse with chickens, rabbits and horses. Later it was adapted as a carpenter’s workshop for two decades, before its eventual abandonment.

From the street, an unassuming traditional Maltese door partakes in the traditional streetscape. Beyond this door lies a different world; a long-whitewashed entrance corridor gives glimpses of an office, with a hidden garden beyond. The office is comprised of a big central room, with three smaller rooms that make up an enfilade. The entire system is in constant negotiation with the Mediterranean garden, which runs the entire length of all these rooms. The big room – the former carpenter’s workshop – now houses the main office space, where a long, continuous table proudly sits. This central table reflects the studio’s non-hierarchal nature – all the team members sit and work together here.

Hints of the building’s past life are visible and celebrated, rather than hidden away. The original concrete floors were preserved and re-polished, with all blemishes and horse hooves markings visible. Carpentry machinery from the building’s past were given new life as furniture pieces in the new office. The garden acts as the lung of the building – it provides the workspaces with fresh air and natural light. Within this abundant garden lies a terracotta-coloured volume that houses the restrooms and storage areas. Dotted throughout are benches that were upcycled from traditional Maltese building elements. The garden is enjoyed daily during lunch breaks and for team events – it is central to office life here.

Although the project’s ambitions are simple – that of removing later additions to reintroduce spatial clarity, whitewashing all rooms to minimise visual noise, and reinstating the garden – as a totality, it is truly greater than the sum of its parts. The materials employed – whitewashed stone walls, painted steel beams and polished concrete – echo this ethos and the building’s humble origins. They are modest, yet show honesty in how the building was put together.

Throughout its history, the building has always performed as a place of work, and this chapter of the building’s existence is no exception. This intervention shows that sometimes, improvements do not come from major additions, but rather, careful subtractions and preservation of what was found.

Images © Christian Grech, Alex Attard

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