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title: 'Optimal utility: Portland startup Twofold rethinks the modern workspace'
date: '2018-05-15T16:28:52-07:00'
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# Optimal utility: Portland startup Twofold rethinks the modern workspace

What if a wall could be more than a wall? What if meeting rooms could appear and disappear as needed? Those are the kinds of questions that Portland startup [Twofold](http://www.twofoldusa.com/ "Twofold") has been asking. And their answers are both compelling and elegant.

> Our mission at Twofold is to help companies optimize limited space. We do this by focusing on great, inventive design that’s backed by a strong financial and environmental business case. As a result, Twofold changes the formula for organizations that are designing new space or growing in place.
> 
> Developed following extensive research into the mobile workplace environment, Twofold’s first products were conceived, designed, hacked, and fabricated, by a multidisciplinary team of makers, architects, interior designers, and potential end-users. Twofold is creating a new canvas for designers, and helps clients get the most from their investment in space. By converting idle areas into productive, flexible workspaces, Twofold products can improve efficiency by 25% or more, thereby increasing the capacity of smaller floorplans, or enabling greater density in existing spaces.

Words don’t really do the products justice. I mean, even if I had a command of the English language. Which I’ve proven time and time again that I don’t.

So you kind of have to see them. Go look at [Twofold](http://www.twofoldusa.com/ "Twofold").

*Fun fact: The original prototype for Twofold was inspired by an effort to build better phone booths for the old [PIE](https://piepdx.com "PIE") workspace. But the current version is leaps and bounds ahead of those original discussions.*