In Bangkok, a Workplace Trades Rigidity for Range
At One Bangkok, a new Workplace Show Suite sheds the rigidity of the traditional office in favour of something more open and adaptable. Through layered zoning and spatially responsive furnishings, the space explores how the modern workplace can support fluid and distinctly human ways of working
The Workplace Show Suite at One Bangkok — set within Thailand’s most ambitious mixed-use development — opens with a premise rather than a prescription: that no two organisations work the same way, and the office should not pretend otherwise.
A collaboration between MillerKnoll, Chanintr and One Bangkok, the project is framed by three guiding principles — wellbeing, connection and change. Also known as Twenty and Above, the show suite responds with a flexible workplace framework composed of multiple formats that can be calibrated to reflect distinct working identities.
This thinking is expressed through a layered zoning strategy. Organised across three zones — a reception and executive meeting area, a contemporary hybrid workspace, and a flexible open-plan office — each environment carries its own tone and function, illustrating how varied workplace needs can coexist.
‘Each company has its own culture, its own style, its own needs in terms of function,’ says Chanintr Sirisant, CEO of Chanintr. ‘We’re really trying to show three different options that act as a toolkit, for customers to craft something that matches their own identity.’
Furniture plays a critical role in shaping this narrative. Drawing from across the MillerKnoll collective, including Herman Miller, Knoll, Muuto and NaughtOne, the space brings together multiple design languages to create environments that are human-centred and accommodating of different modes of working. In place of uniformity, it embraces a sense of authorship, enabling designers and organisations to compose spaces that reflect their own culture and style.
‘What guides our work at MillerKnoll is long-term research rather than short-term trends,’ says Praveen Muppidi, Senior Regional Director, South Asia and Southeast Asia at MillerKnoll. ‘Over decades we've studied how people actually use space — where friction occurs, where choice matters, and how environments influence wellbeing and performance.’
With this approach, the Show Suite does not disregard the fundamentals that make a workplace successful, but rather provides solutions in which these principles are not merely imposed objectives, but natural byproducts of spaces that simply work, and work well.
