When design studio DUX moved to a new office in the Tallinn Old Town, their new digs didn’t have a separate, dedicated meeting room. The floor plan is as eclectic as any Old Town apartment: stairs aplenty, but no door in sight to contain (or block out) noise.

How to conduct meetings, then? Where to have a call with clients or partners? Even when tucked into the cleverest nook, meetings would still disturb those trying to focus a few steps away. With 11 people in the office, constant annoyance was a given.

Calls, one-on-ones, and longer meetings

In the post-Covid era, most communication lives in the digital realm. Every day, there are multiple video calls with clients. For that reason, Dux’s first goal was to move calls to a soundproof space, so the rest of the team wouldn’t be distracted.

The solution? Renting a Silen Space 2. The pod fits four and is now the designated space for undisturbed calls and face-to-face meetings. Its location in what’s effectively the office hallway, there is constant foot traffic behind the glass. None of it registers for those inside -- that’s Silen Space’s 43dB external-noise reduction at work.