The project is part of Raum 2035, FHNW’s strategy for future learning and working environments. Within the existing open zones, Evolution Design created four spatial modules: coworking areas, a lounge, a forum and a focus zone. Each offers a different way to use the campus, from discussion and collaboration to quieter individual work.

Colour is what makes these areas immediately legible. It is not applied as decoration at the end, but used as part of the spatial structure. Spark Acoustic Lighting appears throughout the learning zones in a broad range of ARCHISONIC® Felt colours and sizes, giving the ceiling a lively rhythm while helping each area feel more specific.

The pendants mark places below them: tables, informal meeting points, collaborative work settings and softer areas for pause. Their familiar shade-like form makes the lighting approachable, while the acoustic material gives it a second role above the activity of the room.

The project does not rely on one acoustic gesture repeated everywhere. Instead, each element responds to how close people are to the source of sound.

Spark works overhead, bringing light and acoustic absorption into the coworking and lounge areas without making the ceiling feel heavy. In the planted, jungle-like work area, Desk Division Wrap creates a more immediate layer of focus at the desk. It gives individual workstations a gentle boundary while keeping them connected to the wider learning environment.

Vertigo Coverings add another acoustic layer inside the shelving areas. Instead of covering large open walls, they sit within a library-like setting, where their vertical relief brings texture and absorption into zones shaped by books, objects and quieter study.

All three applications are based on ARCHISONIC® Felt. The material turns recycled PET into lightweight acoustic surfaces with a soft touch and a palette of 45 curated colours. This makes it possible to move between lighting, desk division and wall application without changing the underlying material language.

At FHNW Campus Brugg-Windisch, that flexibility matters. The learning zones are open and varied, but they still need to feel connected. Spark brings colour and light from above, Wrap supports more focused work at the table, and Vertigo adds texture inside the shelving.

Together, they show how acoustic products can do more than reduce noise. They can help a campus read as a set of places: open enough to move through, specific enough to use, and colourful enough to remember.