These Meteorite-Shaped Office Pods Look Ready for the Space Age—But Live in Your Backyard
The futuristic $47K prefabs by Hello Wood let you bring a working-from-Mars vibe to your home.
The futuristic $47K prefabs by Hello Wood let you bring a working-from-Mars vibe to your home.
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Hello Wood was founded in 2010 by András Huszár and Dávid Ráday as a summer camp for students interested in architecture and design. While its educational outreach would grow and evolve—it now sponsors an art festival that draws people from more than 30 countries—Hello Wood became a design studio in its own right in 2013. The firm spent the next six years making cabins and public installations before landing on the idea for a detached prefab workstation in early 2020, just before the pandemic lockdowns. "Although there had been a need for more separate meeting rooms before the pandemic," says Ráday, "there is now a rapidly growing demand for isolated work possibilities." Here, Hello Wood tells us about how the originally timber-clad workstation—now aptly dubbed the Pebble—has changed in the past few years and where they're headed next with the design.
Hello Wood customized their original wood-paneled Pebble capsules to create a futuristic look for a fiber optic company’s three auxiliary meeting rooms.
Photo courtesy of Hello Wood
What’s the most exciting project you’ve realized to date?
With the latest Pebble pod, our client envisioned a set of three for his company in his front yard. His idea was to create a futuristic environment, making people feel as if they just landed on the Mars. We ran with the idea, giving the Pebble pod aluminum composite panels and more of the latest and greatest technologies to create a jaw-dropping moment. Our client is in the optical fiber cable business, with their clients being the biggest telecommunication companies in the region. So making the pods look very innovative and amusing to the partners was an important aspect of the project.
The three rooms can be utilized as creative spaces, office rooms, or meeting rooms. Their favorite aspect of the project is its futuristic feel and look, which inspires them throughout their workday.
The Pebble pods are paneled in Alucobond, a sheet material made of a fire-retardant mineral core sandwiched between two aluminum panels. Other cladding options include pine wood and Cor-Ten steel.
Photo courtesy of Hello Wood
The air-conditioned interiors have high-tech features, including motorized mounts for monitors, digital boards, and LED lighting.
Photo courtesy of Hello Wood
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