MODULAR FLOORING ZONE IN
As wellbeing remains a key design influence, ease of navigation is increasingly becoming a focus for supporting inclusive and positive environments. Louisa Eyles, commercial marketing manager at Amtico, explains how LVT flooring can support zoning.
Commercial flooring delivers more than aesthetics and durability; it’s an essential tool, especially with the growing focus on wayfinding, wellness and inclusive design trends.
In all sectors and industries, improving ease of wayfinding facilitates positive feelings and experiences for occupants, including neurodiverse individuals. Repetitive layouts and a lack of visual cues can make it easy for anyone to get lost; however, making small design changes can improve navigation and also help employees, customers or visitors understand the intended function of a room or space.
For instance, visual zoning using colour is an effective way for people to quickly identify quiet workstations in offices. Equally, it can help with navigation around a building or locating communal areas in build-to-rent developments. Zoning can be easily achieved with LVT flooring, whether by adding a perimeter plank border and bespoke number pattern in the ‘assigned’ colours for each floor, or opting for contrasting planks and tiles in different areas. If subtle visual zoning is required, contractors can take a considered approach by layering LVT designs in woods and stones. The methods work well and meet the demand for inclusive design.
However, there’s more to LVT flooring than colours and decors. Simply put, high-quality manufactured flooring can be specified and laid in a multitude of ways that help demarcate zones. For example, Amtico flooring was chosen for the multi-use amenity spaces at The Headline building in Leeds. Here, an innovative combination of laying patterns with colours and woods enabled
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