Aeonica, Spacestor

Overview

Opportunity

Solution

Impact

Team

Aeonica is a reconfigurable micro-architecture solution that brings softer forms, acoustic comfort, and long-term adaptability to the changing workplace.

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Client

Spacestor

Expertise

Product Development

Opportunity

As workplace needs continued to evolve, Spacestor saw an opportunity to create adaptable settings that could change over time without construction, permanence, or visual rigidity.

As workplaces evolved, the need for more welcoming, adaptable, and human-centred environments became increasingly important. In collaboration with Gensler, Spacestor developed a solution that defines space without construction, enabling designers to create areas for focus, collaboration, privacy, and connection. Inspired by classical architectural forms and biophilic principles, the design combines soft forms and fluid geometry within a flexible, reconfigurable system. Built from just five core elements, Aeonica creates a new landscape for work, offering endless configurations that adapt to changing teams, behaviours, and workplace needs.

Why This Matters

01
Change Without Construction
Aeonica helps organisations reshape workplace settings quickly, reducing reliance on fixed partitions and giving teams more freedom to respond as work patterns shift.
02
Human-Centred Workplace Experiences
Its organic forms and integration of biophilic principles, earthy colours, and acoustic surfaces bring warmth to open environments, helping workplaces feel more inviting, relaxed, and human-centred.
03
Design Freedom at Scale
A simple kit-of-parts gives designers a repeatable yet expressive system, supporting everything from quiet nooks to larger spatial landscapes.

Involving Gensler as product design consultants was hugely valuable, bringing a level of architectural thinking on shapes, dimensions and materiality.

Solution

Gensler transformed five geometric components into an intuitive, reconfigurable system inspired by classical architecture and built for evolving workplace needs.

Aeonica’s solution lies in its simplicity: five inter-compatible forms that can be joined, separated, reused, and reassembled to create a wide range of spatial typologies. Drawing from arches, colonnades, cloisters, rotundas, and pantheons, the system gives designers a familiar architectural language without prescribing a fixed outcome. Its unique quick-release joining system supports repeated reconfiguration, while soft upholstered surfaces and a mineral-inspired palette help create settings that feel acoustic, welcoming, and adaptable.

From brief to build: how five geometric forms became a flexible micro-architecture toolkit for the changing workplace.

Rather than start with a fixed furniture solution, the team studied how architectural elements could become flexible space-making tools. Early sketches explored arches, thresholds, enclosure, and rhythm before translating those ideas into modular components. Proportion, softness, colour, acoustics, and joinery were developed together, allowing the final system to balance visual character with the practical demands of repeated assembly, movement, and reuse.

Design Influence

Early studies began to show how classical references informed the system’s softer, architectural language to impart a timeless and familiar typology.

Impact

Aeonica gives designers a lasting spatial system, helping workplaces adapt with less construction, greater reuse, and more human-centred experiences.

Its flexible kit-of-parts turns open space into focus, collaboration, and gathering settings that can continue evolving over time.

What Changed Because of This

01
Adaptive Reuse
Components can be reconfigured repeatedly, extending product life and reducing the need for new construction as workplace needs shift.
02
Spatial Comfort
Soft upholstered forms and acoustic surfaces help open workplace landscapes feel calmer, warmer, and more supportive of different work modes.
03
Market Recognition
Award recognition confirms Aeonica’s relevance as an inventive, flexible product response to the changing expectations of contemporary workplace design.

Aeonica brings a new design language to the workplace, combining architectural thinking with flexibility to create spaces that support connection, comfort and changing needs.

Recognition

01

Office Insight

Gensler awarded the 2024 Le FRENCH DESIGN 100 for Aeonica – a workplace concept.

02

FRAME Magazine

Feature: Aeonica (formerly Arcadia) highlighted among work products responding to ever-changing workspace needs.

03

Dezeen

Feature: Gensler and Spacestor design Aeonica, a workplace design product.

Team

Project Leadership

Philippe Paré

Philippe Paré is the Co-Managing Principal for Gensler’s Europe region. Based in the Paris office, Philippe plays a dual role, driving the growth of the Paris office and Gensler’s business across France, while helping to expand the firm’s European presence.

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FAQ

01

What is Aeonica?

Aeonica is a flexible interior product toolkit for workspaces, designed by Gensler with Spacestor to create adaptable settings without construction.

02

Who designed Aeonica?

Gensler worked with Spacestor as Product Design Consultant, drawing on global workplace design expertise.

03

What inspired Aeonica’s design?

The system is inspired by classical architecture and landscape architecture, including arches, colonnades, cloisters, rotundas, porticos, and pantheons.

04

How does Aeonica support flexibility?

Its inter-compatible components use a quick-release joining system, allowing designers to reconfigure the same pieces into many workplace settings.

05

How does Aeonica contribute to sustainability?

Aeonica supports reuse and longevity by reducing the need for fixed construction and using durable upholstery made from renewable wool.

06

What recognition has Aeonica received?

Aeonica won Le FRENCH DESIGN 100, FX Awards 2023, Interior Design Best of Year 2022, and has also been recognised in awards and media coverage under its former name, Arcadia.

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Related Expertise

Product Development

Aeonica is a reconfigurable micro-architecture solution that brings softer forms, acoustic comfort, and long-term adaptability to the changing workplace.

As workplace needs continued to evolve, Spacestor saw an opportunity to create adaptable settings that could change over time without construction, permanence, or visual rigidity.

Why This Matters

Gensler transformed five geometric components into an intuitive, reconfigurable system inspired by classical architecture and built for evolving workplace needs.

From brief to build: how five geometric forms became a flexible micro-architecture toolkit for the changing workplace.

Aeonica gives designers a lasting spatial system, helping workplaces adapt with less construction, greater reuse, and more human-centred experiences.

What Changed Because of This