page_title: Namahn
section_title: Premises
hierarchical_section_title: Namahn / Premises
caption_attribution_description: English: The Namahn Open Space with its 90m2 wooden dance floor. It gives access to the back office, the small garden and the Design Studio, where most co-creative workshops take place.
context_page_description: Namahn is a human-centered design consultancy based in Brussels, Belgium. Considered a pioneer in human-centered design in Belgium, Namahn is primarily active in the fields of interaction design, service design and safety-critical design.
  Clients for Namahn's consultancy are mainly:
  significant Belgian companies in the financial, technology, healthcare and utilities sectors.
  multinationals with their headquarters in Belgium, active in high-tech industries and catering to a global market.
  local, regional/national and European governmental institutions.
  Namahn partners Joannes Vandermeulen and Kristel Van Ael were awarded the 2016 Henry van de Velde Lifetime Achievement award for their work in digital, user experience and service design.
context_section_description: The original neoclassical townhouse at the front of the property dates from the 1840s, and was the home to Maison Goemaere, printers and publishers to the Belgian Court, until the early 1990s. After Namahn acquired the building, award winning Belgian architect Wim Cuyvers was in charge of two phases of renovation works that respect the integrity of the original structure while showing architecture's ability for freedom, inspiration and playfulness.
  A central hangar with a huge brick stove and 90m² wooden dance floor functions like a village square, with the other spaces clustered around it. These include a design studio, a small walled garden and a row of half glazed, wood-panelled cubicles that were originally the printers' offices.
  The multi-stored front building hosts the main office spaces and a library, which currently serves as a meeting and workshop space.
caption: The open space, core of the premises
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