At Accenture’s Zurich City Campus in Switzerland, global consulting teams work across agile, highly collaborative floor plans. To support diverse daily activities, from fast-paced team huddles to client presentations and quiet data analysis, the office required an integrated acoustic strategy that controlled open-floor chatter while enhancing the building's architectural aesthetic.
By deploying a combination of BuzziPleat, BuzziDome, and BuzziGrid acoustic lighting, the project highlights how sculptural overhead sound absorption creates comfortable, productive micro-zones without building rigid walls.
Large open floor plates with exposed ceilings and hard architectural surfaces present acoustic challenges, causing voice chatter to reflect and travel.
The Acoustic Challenge: High reverberation (RT60) in shared collaborative zones reduces speech clarity and creates distracting noise spillover into surrounding desk rows.
The Solution: Utilize suspended acoustic lighting to Absorb and Contain sound energy directly at the ceiling boundary above key activity centers.
Suspended over collaborative team hubs and conference spaces, BuzziPleat Light brings architectural elegance and high-performance sound capture.
Acoustic ABC Action: Deep, hand-pleated felt folds trap sound waves inside air pockets, maximizing surface absorption relative to its overall weight.
Visual Impact: Acts as a dramatic sculptural centerpiece while dampening mid-frequency speech chatter.
Installed above informal meeting nooks and breakout areas, BuzziDome creates cozy, acoustically cushioned micro-environments.
Acoustic ABC Action: Contains localized vocal sound within its smooth, upholstered dome cavity, keeping conversation noise from spilling across open floors.
Lighting Performance: Emits warm, diffuse illumination ideal for relaxed team catch-ups.
Positioned over high-traffic collaborative corridors and open-plan meeting islands, BuzziGrid delivers ceiling-level acoustic treatment.
Acoustic ABC Action: Absorbs rising sound energy through a continuous grid structure made of thick acoustic felt.
Spatial Definition: Visually anchors collaborative zones beneath high, exposed concrete ceilings.
