Handelsbanken Norrköping in Sweden

Background

Focus on openess

When you enter Handelsbanken’s premises in central Norrköping, you immediately notice the openness that marks them out throughout: from the cashier’s desks, you have a good overview of the rest of the premises, onto both conference rooms and individual office
workplaces.
The leitmotif was to give the employees more space between their workplaces than before, says staffan Krause, office manager at Handelsbanken Norrköping. this also helped to give the premises a feeling of openness, as the storage units between the workplaces now act as screens in place of high partitions. Part of the assignment for Hans Peterson and Ursula Bevegård, who worked on the
project from Kinnarps Interiors, was to think in terms of creating a modern and welcoming office ambiance.

Project Facts

Solution

A bank with an open-plan solution and cheerful colour scheme

Since the new premises were inaugurated in December 2009, business has been proceeding as usual. the result is a welcoming office with a cheerful colour scheme accentuated in
red, which is repeated in the furniture and the rest of the interior design. many of the brands included in the Kinnarps Interiors product offer are represented on the premises, including corner
tables, desk chairs and visitor chairs from Kinnarps, as well as conference room furniture from materia, skandiform and Lammhults. the carpets come from ogeborg and the curtains
from margrets. the cashier counters were specially manufactured by snIcKerIt AB, whereas the counter desktops come from strandbergs snickeri. Architect Per Wallgren from Diabas
Arkitekter in norrköping was responsible for designing the cashier counters as well as the glass screens that can be seen between some of the workplaces.