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Operating across Sheffield, Belfast, and Cardiff, HLM Architects shapes academic, healthcare, and civic environments through rhythmic facade reveals, integrated landscape edges, and strategic color interventions that bridge heavy masonry with modern glazing. This portfolio serves as a strong reference when inserting contemporary glazed openings into historic envelopes, designing built-in seating within expansive interior circulation hubs, or specifying exterior lighting to accentuate prominent architectural volumes.

Spacious timber-lined atrium by HLM Architects featuring a central staircase, pink curved sofas, and suspended ring pendants.

Spacious timber-lined atrium by HLM Architects

An interior precedent by HLM Architects demonstrating a warm timber-clad multi-story atrium with integrated biophilia, collaborative workspaces, and flexible lounge seating.

What we like about this project
Curved modular pink seating creates distinct yet open social pockets within a massive timber hall.

Materials

  • timber
  • upholstered-fabric
  • glass
  • metal
  • planting

Visual identifiers

  • timber-atrium
  • curved-pink-sofas
  • central-staircase
  • ring-pendants

Style tags

  • contemporary
  • biophilic
  • warm-minimal

Visual tags

  • atrium
  • workspace
  • timber-cladding
  • biophilic-design
  • social-hub
  • modern-interior
Geometry
Multi-level atrium volume under a gabled roof profile, featuring a central monumental stair, mezzanine walkway, and ground-level lounge arrangement.
Structural guess
Timber frame roof structure with steel or concrete intermediary floor plates.
Spatial scale
Large multi-story atrium space with human-scaled lounge seating and circulation paths in the foreground.
Lighting
Balanced ambient lighting from overhead architectural ring pendants supplemented by natural daylight washing down from high roof slots.
Atmosphere
Warm, collaborative, and lively interior atmosphere centered around natural wood and soft organic seating tones.
Environmental context
Indoor multi-level commercial or educational workspace atrium with integrated planting.
Spatial experience
Open and welcoming central social hub that connects multi-story collaborative areas with comfortable human-scaled seating zones below.
Composition rhythm
Symmetrical roof gables framing a central vertical axis anchored by the stair and mezzanine level planting.
Style reading
Contemporary biophilic corporate interior
Program
Commercial office atrium or educational student hub
Perspective
Interior Spatial
Discipline
interior
Materials
timber, upholstered-fabric, glass, metal, planting
Visual identifiers
timber-atrium, curved-pink-sofas, central-staircase, ring-pendants
Style tags
contemporary, biophilic, warm-minimal
Visual tags
atrium, workspace, timber-cladding, biophilic-design, social-hub, modern-interior
Geometry
Multi-level atrium volume under a gabled roof profile, featuring a central monumental stair, mezzanine walkway, and ground-level lounge arrangement.
Structural guess
Timber frame roof structure with steel or concrete intermediary floor plates.
Spatial scale
Large multi-story atrium space with human-scaled lounge seating and circulation paths in the foreground.
Lighting
Balanced ambient lighting from overhead architectural ring pendants supplemented by natural daylight washing down from high roof slots.
Atmosphere
Warm, collaborative, and lively interior atmosphere centered around natural wood and soft organic seating tones.
Environmental context
Indoor multi-level commercial or educational workspace atrium with integrated planting.
Spatial experience
Open and welcoming central social hub that connects multi-story collaborative areas with comfortable human-scaled seating zones below.
Composition rhythm
Symmetrical roof gables framing a central vertical axis anchored by the stair and mezzanine level planting.
Style reading
Contemporary biophilic corporate interior
Program
Commercial office atrium or educational student hub
Perspective
Interior Spatial
Discipline
interior

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Spacious timber-lined atrium by HLM Architects featuring a central staircase, pink curved sofas, and suspended ring pendants.

Spacious timber-lined atrium by HLM Architects

An interior precedent by HLM Architects demonstrating a warm timber-clad multi-story atrium with integrated biophilia, collaborative workspaces, and flexible lounge seating.

What we like about this project
Curved modular pink seating creates distinct yet open social pockets within a massive timber hall.

Materials

  • timber
  • upholstered-fabric
  • glass
  • metal
  • planting

Visual identifiers

  • timber-atrium
  • curved-pink-sofas
  • central-staircase
  • ring-pendants

Style tags

  • contemporary
  • biophilic
  • warm-minimal

Visual tags

  • atrium
  • workspace
  • timber-cladding
  • biophilic-design
  • social-hub
  • modern-interior
Geometry
Multi-level atrium volume under a gabled roof profile, featuring a central monumental stair, mezzanine walkway, and ground-level lounge arrangement.
Structural guess
Timber frame roof structure with steel or concrete intermediary floor plates.
Spatial scale
Large multi-story atrium space with human-scaled lounge seating and circulation paths in the foreground.
Lighting
Balanced ambient lighting from overhead architectural ring pendants supplemented by natural daylight washing down from high roof slots.
Atmosphere
Warm, collaborative, and lively interior atmosphere centered around natural wood and soft organic seating tones.
Environmental context
Indoor multi-level commercial or educational workspace atrium with integrated planting.
Spatial experience
Open and welcoming central social hub that connects multi-story collaborative areas with comfortable human-scaled seating zones below.
Composition rhythm
Symmetrical roof gables framing a central vertical axis anchored by the stair and mezzanine level planting.
Style reading
Contemporary biophilic corporate interior
Program
Commercial office atrium or educational student hub
Perspective
Interior Spatial
Discipline
interior
Materials
timber, upholstered-fabric, glass, metal, planting
Visual identifiers
timber-atrium, curved-pink-sofas, central-staircase, ring-pendants
Style tags
contemporary, biophilic, warm-minimal
Visual tags
atrium, workspace, timber-cladding, biophilic-design, social-hub, modern-interior
Geometry
Multi-level atrium volume under a gabled roof profile, featuring a central monumental stair, mezzanine walkway, and ground-level lounge arrangement.
Structural guess
Timber frame roof structure with steel or concrete intermediary floor plates.
Spatial scale
Large multi-story atrium space with human-scaled lounge seating and circulation paths in the foreground.
Lighting
Balanced ambient lighting from overhead architectural ring pendants supplemented by natural daylight washing down from high roof slots.
Atmosphere
Warm, collaborative, and lively interior atmosphere centered around natural wood and soft organic seating tones.
Environmental context
Indoor multi-level commercial or educational workspace atrium with integrated planting.
Spatial experience
Open and welcoming central social hub that connects multi-story collaborative areas with comfortable human-scaled seating zones below.
Composition rhythm
Symmetrical roof gables framing a central vertical axis anchored by the stair and mezzanine level planting.
Style reading
Contemporary biophilic corporate interior
Program
Commercial office atrium or educational student hub
Perspective
Interior Spatial
Discipline
interior

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