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Partition to Perfection: What are the Different Types of Room Dividers

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Room dividers in houses and other residences serve multiple functions, including space division, privacy creation, clutter concealment, and decorative enhancement. They come in various materials such as fabric, acrylic, wood, and glass to suit different preferences and needs. Consideration of space dimensions, layout, and specific needs is vital when selecting room dividers to maximize functionality. Let’s take a look at the different types of room dividers that can be used to create private zones.

Designer: André Fu Living

1. Foldable Screens

Folding screens are ideal for separating spaces in rented homes since they are free-standing and require no installation. These screens simply need to be opened and folded away when not in use. Available in various styles, such as Shoji, fabric, lacquered, or lattice screens, they add depth and interest to any room. Additionally, folding screens are perfect for creating private areas like a hidden workspace or a changing nook.

Architect André Fu’s latest creation, the Art Deco Collection, merges the intricate silhouettes of Art Deco with the serene ambiance of traditional Japanese Zen Gardens. Inspired by the opulence of Art Deco and the tranquility of Kyoto’s Zen gardens, Fu introduces his comprehensive Art Deco Garden Collection. Fu’s room divider designs are informed by meticulous research on historical Japanese gardens, particularly the Tofukuji Temple Garden.

2. Suspended Room Dividers

Hanging or suspended room dividers are semi-permanent solutions perfect for dividing spaces a large open space into smaller areas. They can be fixed or adjustable, allowing them to be rolled up, slid, or pulled back, and unlike foldable screens, they can span an entire room. Available as beaded curtains, fabric curtains, bamboo blinds, or stacked louvered doors, it’s recommended to attach a weight at the bottom for stability.

Designer: Jihyun (xjabier)

Silhuous is a nature-inspired room divider crafted with acrylic ‘branches’ and tracing paper leaves. This visually appealing barrier effortlessly divides spaces, creating zones in an alluring and efficient manner. Its expandable design adapts to any space size, and it doubles as a beautiful light diffuser.

Designer: Eunsang Lee

As room dividers are versatile pieces of furniture, they often serve multiple functions such as changing rooms, photo backdrops, or private meeting spaces. Eunsang Lee’s 5A1 challenges traditional designs with its modular, infinity concept, promoting sustainability and versatility. Constructed from responsibly sourced wood and steel, it offers endless configurations, allowing for hanging clothes, mirrors, or plants. Inspired by communication, its modular design encourages interaction and creativity, aiming to foster meaningful connections between users and their belongings.

3. Sliding Room Divider

A sliding room divider provides ample opportunity to split the space into two distinct zones and can also function as a door. Acoustic panels can be installed on the divider to enhance sound insulation.

Designer: Claudio Bellini

Open office spaces might have replaced cubicles, but privacy remains essential. While wooden partitions and pipe-and-drape screens can visually separate spaces, they don’t address sound privacy. To solve this, Milan-based Claudio Bellini design studio created FP7, a collection of acoustic panels that double as room dividers and noise absorbers. Designed for open offices, FP7 panels absorb soundwaves without entirely blocking background noise and visually delineate private areas. Available in various colors and sizes, these panels resemble visual soundwaves when arranged together and can be organized as needed. Ideal for busy areas like lobbies and group workstations, FP7 ensures privacy without compromising the openness of modern offices.

Designers: Stephanie Forsythe and Todd MacAllen

Molo’s paper softwall, designed by Stephanie Forsythe and Todd MacAllen, offers flexibility with its folding and bending capabilities, shaping into curved or linear formations. Lightweight and expandable, it can define private spaces or create dramatic backdrops for performances. Made from responsibly sourced wood and coated with a non-toxic fire retardant, the softwall’s honeycomb latticework effectively absorbs sound. Available in three heights and colors, the softwall can be affixed to surfaces using steel strips and emulates sliding doors through felt handles, offering endless creative configuration possibilities when multiple units are connected.

4. Permanent Room Divider

This divider, supported by both the ceiling and floor, creates a fixed partition between two zones and can be made of glass, battens, wood, or metal.

5. Modular Partition

Modular partitions or room dividers are small to medium-sized, reconfigurable walls that can be easily moved to provide quick and versatile partitioning solutions without the need for installation. These pre-assembled walls can be arranged into your desired design and quickly set up to create private offices, meeting rooms, or conference rooms as needed.

Designer: Else-Rikke Bruun

Veneer, a flexible room partition by Copenhagen-based designer Else-Rikke Bruun, seamlessly blends traditional Mexican weaving techniques with advanced CNC milling methods. This interlaced screen wall, crafted from birch plywood planks, forms a wave-like pattern without the need for additional tools or screws. Coated with black oil for a classic marbled finish, Veneer offers both visual appeal and acoustic benefits, making it an elegant and functional addition to any space.

6. Eco-friendly Room Dividers

Designer: Crafting Plastics and Office MMK

When it comes to room dividers, the usual options are functional but lack flair and BreaZea changes that. This modular 3D-printed divider is made from eco-friendly bioplastics, offering both artistic design and sustainability. Inspired by organic shapes, it resembles artwork rather than furniture. What sets it apart is its pleasant aroma, reminiscent of fresh wood. And when its lifecycle ends, BreaZea can be composted, fully biodegrading within 60-120 days.

Designer: Patrycja Gorzela

Nook is a collection of desk and room dividers made from repurposed cardboard shipping containers. Designed by Patrycja Gorzela for a Just Booth competition, Nook provides privacy in busy environments. Available in two sizes, the lightweight dividers can create personal work zones on desks or section off larger rooms. Nook offers a sustainable, practical solution for maintaining focus and privacy at work.

Designer: Interesting Times Gang and OBOS

The Veggro collection, created by Interesting Times Gang and OBOS, offers sustainable room partitions made from mycelium and orange peel. The Loom design features a mushroom-inspired pattern from mycelium, while Jugoso uses 3D-printed orange rinds to form geometric patterns. These eco-friendly panels, mounted on ash wood frames, provide acoustic insulation and decorative appeal. Veggro exemplifies biophilic design and aims to reduce carbon emissions in house building.

Designer: Sarunphon Boonto

The Bilid room divider blends traditional rattan craftsmanship with modern design, featuring straight lines that evoke peace and harmony and wavy lines that symbolize conflict and dynamism. Made from locally sourced, undyed beige rattan, it uses color and texture to convey its message. The vertical lines represent strength and order, while the wavy lines suggest movement and social conflict. Combining smooth and wavy patterns with tinted pastel colors, Bilid creates a balance of warm and cool tones, symbolizing unity through contrast. Meticulously designed, it evokes focus and calm, representing the harmonious coexistence of life’s diverse elements.

7. Geometric Room Divider

A geometric room divider is a great way to infuse texture and pattern into the room décor.

Designer: Mia Cullin

The Ro room divider blends minimalism with warm tones and natural materials, adding character to any space. Inspired by a honeycomb structure, it features rotating columns of hexagons on painted aluminum poles, allowing for customizable patterns and space openness. Covered in leather or wood with various finishes, the subdued tones provide a calming effect and a touch of luxury. Ro combines visual appeal and functionality, making it perfect for living rooms, hotels, or offices, creating a warm and comforting atmosphere without being overly flashy.

When choosing a room divider, ensure it fits your space by measuring both height and length, considering stability and safety with anchors or stands. Consider installation complexity, light diffusion preferences, and desired functionality before making a purchase.

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OmniRoom room-in-room system is a flexible and modular alternative to plasterboard walls in offices

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Since the transition from home offices to actual corporate offices has begun, it’s important to ensure that employees feel comfortable, safe, and motivated in their workplace. And adding the right furniture designs can greatly contribute to creating an office that is conducive to motivation and productivity.  And a unique furniture system that recently caught my eye, and would be an excellent addition to any corporate office space is the OmniRoom room-in-room system.

Designer: Mute

Office brand Mute designed an innovative workplace configuration called the Omniroom room-in-room system. Omniroom is designed to be an adaptable, modular alternative to plasterboard walls. OmniRoom provides a range of 100 architect-designed “rooms” that you can choose from. These “rooms” include workstations, conference rooms, lounge rooms, and coffee points equipped with walls and frames that have been built from hundred percent fully recyclable aluminum.

What’s really intriguing about OmniRoom is that you can build your own highly customizable room-in-room system for workplaces. Users can build their own custom rooms using thirteen prefabricated construction modules that can be combined and merged together to create closed and open rooms as well as space dividers. All the various configurations can be customized with a choice of 30 wall-mounted add-ons – including desks, shelves, cabinets, and accessories which can be fixed to either the inside or the outside of the room.

“Today’s workspace fit-outs have to be agile to suit different working styles and adjust to team sizes and needs or even locations,” said Mute founder and managing director Szymon Rychlik. “OmniRoom is the ultimate kit for building new hybrid-work-era offices: dynamic, human-centered, and fully flexible.” Omniroom can be assembled using a time-saving click-in system that was invented and patented by Mute. The rooms can be easily dismantled and moved whenever the workplace needs a change. The pre-configured and custom-designed rooms both come fully equipped with ventilation, lighting, and electricity, and the enclosed rooms have been equipped with acoustic systems for noise reduction. The Omniroom system is an ingenious and innovative addition to modern office spaces, providing users with the ability to customize their workspace and create the ultimate office to work in.

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Blokaloks modular system lets you build walls or even rooms in just minutes

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People today live in the fast lane, for better or for worse. Many change jobs or even careers in a snap; others change residences or living arrangements. A lot of the products today are designed to cater to that kind of lifestyle, from smartphones that put everything under our fingertips, almost literally, to modular and portable equipment that let us pick up and go anywhere we need to be. There are, however, still a few things that are still set in the old ways, so to speak, like how furniture is made or how rooms are built. While there’s nothing terribly wrong with traditional processes, they can sometimes be wasteful, inefficient, and unsustainable. Modularity has started to make inroads in construction and architecture, like this modular block system that empowers people to set up walls, dividers, or even rooms with no tools or knowledge required.

Designer: Stan Spencer (Blokaloks)

Blocks have become a favorite form when it comes to modular systems. After all, they’re akin to bricks that serve as the foundations of many things that we build, so it’s really no surprise that LEGO chose this metaphor for its now iconic line of construction toys. Some block-inspired systems offer the ability to build simpler pieces of furniture or products without much effort, but Blokaloks really takes it to the next level when it comes to putting up walls.

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Instead of actual rectangular blocks, though, Blokaloks come in four shapes that you mix and match to create a flat vertical surface like a wall. It doesn’t have to be just a single wall, though, or a floor-to-ceiling wall. It can be as simple as a divider or as big as a full-blown room. The system comes with stands to prevent the wooden walls from tipping as well as trim pieces for edges and corners.

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Unlike other modular construction systems, Blokaloks offers something that goes beyond modularity. There is, for example, an eye towards sustainability, with all blocks made from different types of wood such as Bamboo, Beech, Maple, and Walnut, just to name a few. Even the core is made from mineral wool to help dampen sound from the other side. That core is optional, though, in case you actually want chatter to go through.

Blokaloks also give freedom and flexibility in the way you build your structures. You don’t need tools to put things together, nor do you need tools to take them apart. The design makes it easy to redesign walls and rooms as needed. Rather than having to physically expand the room to accommodate new uses, you can simply “tear down” some unused sections to make room for a different one.

With this in mind, Blokaloks seems to be perfectly designed for fast-paced changes that go along with today’s lifestyles. Even the pricing scheme is meant to be scalable, depending on the need at that time rather than being stuck with what you purchased forever. Even if the materials or the manufacturing process isn’t 100% sustainable, the modular system already helps reduce wasted resources and energy by leaving room for growth and change anytime.

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Ro room divider uses geometric shapes and warm tones to give character to any space

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A room can tell a lot about its owner just by the things you find in the space and how they come together. Sometimes rooms are neat and minimalist, while other times they can be busy but expressive. Whether by conscious decision or subconscious inclination, almost anything we put in a space has a story to tell, whether about the person living in that space or the object itself. People have become more acutely aware of their living spaces lately, especially after having spent months stuck indoors, and have come to be more discerning in the furniture and decor they buy, especially when it comes to the message that each piece tries to convey. A room divider, for example, might visually and functionally split a space, but it can also bring a comforting atmosphere thanks to its design.

Designer: Mia Cullin

Room dividers don’t have to be fancy. In fact, it is probably best that they don’t call attention to themselves since they’re supposed to blend into the background to make it seem like the space is really divided into distinct sections. At the same time, however, they also don’t have to be plain and boring, and they can affect the overall atmosphere of an area. An extravagant divider could make a room look posh or busy, while a nondescript sheet of wood could make it look clean or drab. Ro takes somewhat of a middle ground, espousing minimalism while still embracing warm tones and natural materials that give a distinct personality and atmosphere to any space.

Structurally, the Ro room divider looks like a honeycomb with columns of alternating hexagons attached to painted aluminum poles. Each column can rotate independently of others, allowing the owner to create different patterns that become a visual point of interest in the room. More importantly, however, it gives owners the freedom to close or open a space just by changing the orientation of the panels.

Each piece or module of the panel can be covered in either leather or wood, with different finishes and colors. Whichever style is chosen, the subdued and muted tones give the divider a warm appearance that provides a calming visual. The natural materials themselves also exude a certain image of luxury you’d come to expect from products made with full grain leather and fine wood. Despite its eye-catching and beautiful appearance, the Ro’s minimalist aesthetics prevents it from being too flashy or gaudy. It is simply there, marrying visual appeal and functionality in a simple package.

The Ro room divider is a fine example of furniture that brings character without forcing its presence in the room. With choices of wood and leather, it will be at home in any setting, whether in a living room, a hotel, or even an office. It’s a perfect example of how a design doesn’t need to be too sophisticated, too complex, or even too functional to be attractive and useful. With the right choice of materials, colors, and shapes, one can imbue any room with feelings of warmth and comfort to help people relax or, at the very least, reduce their stress.

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This detailed rattan room divider fuses traditional crafts with modern furniture design

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This double-sided rattan room divider is the designer’s interpretation of unity – between the harmonious lines and the color palette ranging from warm to cool tones.

Rattan is a locally sourced material – one in fact we have seen our grandparents use in their day-to-day life with ease, and we have disregarded it in our modern adaptation of plastics. Truly, I often feel, sustainable design has roots in our past; if only we can find the discipline to research, revise and adapt these practices on an everyday basis. Rattan is the material derived from dried vines that is weaved into a usable pattern we call wicker – next time you lounge on those IKEA outdoor wicker chairs, be the one to identify these differences!

The divider here, named Bilid, uses 2 contrasting lines designs – straight and wavy to depict 2 opposite reactions. The straight lines create a harmonious texture to evoke peace, whereas the wavy lines reflect the conflict one might see over the contrasting/undulating waveform. Each divider is held in place with an undyed beige rattan design, allowing the colors to do the talking.

Speaking of the lines, the designer explains, “the vertical line implies orderly and strong structure, strength, higher, rigid while conveying a lack of movement. I used it to refer to an ideal orderly place, peace, decency, and harmony.” On the other hand, the wavy lines depict,” the serpentine Line implies energy, sense of movement and dynamism from social conflict, conflict movement and inequality that inspired from domestic society.”

Using rattan, a locally sourced material, the designer emphasizes the story of different perspectives, portraying how the dissimilarities could co-exist through the materials, colors, and two opposite variances. Different rattan patterns express meaning through the material and colors to create a colorful emotion and represent a new mood of rattan furniture with tinted/pastel color combinations—the two blends to provide a contrast of “warm & cool” tones.

The overall theme of Unity is inspired and represented with these 2 different patterns of rattan.  The rattan pattern on one side is smooth conveys calm and peaceful in the same way to create a calming emotion for space. In contrast, the other side uses wavy weave rattan to reflect on the conflict to create a movement emotion to the home space.

Each line of this divider is designed with care, giving you a sense of focus and calm, the same way the designer must have invested himself while designing this metaphorical representation of life as we know it – full of ups and downs, warm and cools but presenting a harmonious front when we look back from the perspective provided by the passage of time.

Designer: Sarunphon Boonto

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This award-winning Ambulance doesn’t need a road to ride on…

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How does an ambulance reach a victim in a road/highway accident when there are more than a dozen cars stuck in a traffic jam between the ambulance and the site of the accident? Up until now, the only solution was to drive in the opposite lane, weaving through oncoming traffic to get to the victim. A band of Korean designers created the Median AMB, a special ambulance that can directly reach the point of the accident without getting affected by the traffic congestion created by the accident. The Median AMB sits on the road divider/median and drives up and down the highway almost like a monorail. It features sliding doors on both sides, seating for a driver and an assistant, and an area for a stretcher that holds the victim. When an accident occurs, it sends a beacon to the nearest Median AMB Station, located at intervals on the highway. Upon receiving a distress signal, the Median AMB drives down the dividers (which are now specifically aligned to serve as rails), right to the victim’s location, picks them up and brings them to a proper ambulance that can take the victim to the nearest hospital, helping save critical time and eventually lives too.

The Median AMB is a winner of the Red Dot Design Concept Award.

Designers: Hong Seonghwan, Lee Hyungtaek, Lee Taekkyung & Song Yoojin