From one video-call station to a campus: CSS_Village by Citterio

Some products are bought once; systems are bought in chapters. CSS_Village belongs to the second kind: its modules are flexible and aggregatable, so the same architecture that starts as a single video-call station can grow into meeting rooms, then into Lounge and Lab collaborative areas, until a floor hosts a genuine village of connected volumes. Nothing purchased in chapter one is superseded in chapter three — the junction elements are designed to keep joining.

For organisations scaling across Indian metros, that logic matters more than any single feature. Citterio builds the system from sound-absorbing fabric panels interspersed with clear glass, in a design by Paolo Pampanoni, Pinuccio Borgonovo and UTC Citterio; a few interconnected elements create multi-functional spaces, and when headcount doubles, the village extends instead of being replaced. The fabric panels absorb inside the volumes and correct the echo of the open plan around them, so acoustic comfort scales along with the floor plate.

Between the enclosed volumes, the system stays social: external areas for training, brainstorming and presentations keep teams connected to the community around them. La Mercanti follows CSS_Village projects for India from layout to delivery, one interlocutor across every chapter of growth.