There is a particular kind of frustration that anyone who has ever worked in an open-plan office, a coworking space, or — let’s be honest — a coffee shop, knows intimately. You have a call to take. An important one. A client, a podcast recording, a video interview. And there is nowhere to go that is quiet enough, private enough, and professional enough to feel right.
You step outside. You find a stairwell. You mutter apologies to the person on the other end for the background noise.
The Silen Space Call was built for exactly that moment — and it handles it better than anything else I’ve tested.
Part of the Space Gen 2 platform, the Space Call is Silen’s solo phone booth. It can fit one person, has a 110×110 cm footprint, and is 228 cm tall. It is compact by design and purposeful by nature. Like the rest of the Gen 2 range, it was developed by leading engineers alongside Red Dot Award-recognized designers, carries Class A sound reduction, and is built on a completely re-engineered structure that makes acoustic performance consistent and installation-independent.
Silen needs little introduction at this point — 25 years in the business, present in 60 countries, and a trophy cabinet that includes:
- two consecutive NeoCon Innovation Awards (2021, 2022),
- the NeoCon Business Innovation Award (2022),
- the Best of NeoCon Business Impact Award (2024),
- the HiP Awards 2024 Honoree designation,
- and the Archiproducts Design Award (2024).
- In 2023 they were named Estonian Exporter of the Year.
- The Space Gen 2 design team holds Red Dot Award recognition.
Their Silen Zero sustainability program is co-funded by the European Union’s NextGenerationEU instrument, their factory runs on 100% renewable energy, and every pod carries SGS Indoor Advantage Gold certification for air quality and low VOC emissions. They earned EcoVadis Bronze in 2025, and they design for a 20+ year product lifespan.
The brand context is strong. But the Space Call has a specific job to do. I tested it at the Welltek showroom in London — a live, working environment with real ambient noise and no staged conditions. Here is what I found.
1. Acoustic Isolation
“The silence lands differently when it is just you in there — there is an intimacy to it that feels almost intentional, like the pod was designed not just to block noise but to put you fully in the headspace of the task at hand.”
Daniel Lamadrid, Associate Publisher Allwork.Space
A phone booth lives or dies by one thing: does it block the world out? The Space Call does.
Stepping inside and closing the door, the showroom around me simply ceased to exist. Conversations, footsteps, background activity — gone. The magnetic seal does its job with the same conviction I noticed in the Space Meet 2: firm, deliberate, complete. You know the moment it closes that you are in your own acoustic world.
What is worth noting for this specific pod is how the isolation feels in a solo, smaller space. It is more immediate than the Meet 2. More concentrated. The silence lands differently when it is just you in there — there is an intimacy to it that feels almost intentional, like the pod was designed not just to block noise but to put you fully in the headspace of the task at hand. For a call, for a recording, for a focused sprint of work that requires no distraction, that quality is exactly right.
Class A sound reduction, structurally engineered into the Gen 2 platform, means this performance is consistent regardless of where the pod is placed or who assembled it. For operators, that reliability is not a small thing.
2. Airflow & Comfort
A square, solo pod with a sealed door — the first thing you might wonder is whether it feels claustrophobic. The honest answer: it could. But it doesn’t, and the reason is the airflow system.
The same intuitive control panel present in the Space Meet 2 is here, too. Fan speed is fully adjustable, BOOST mode is available for a rapid air refresh on entry or after extended use, and the result is that the Space Call feels fresher than its footprint suggests it has any right to.
The airflow takes what could feel clammy and makes it workable — genuinely comfortable, not just tolerable.
As a tall person, I was aware of the reduced footprint compared to the Meet 2. But tight? No. I moved, adjusted, sat, stood, and at no point felt physically constrained. The 208 cm interior height means there is no ceiling-grazing, no hunching. The space knows what it is: compact but considered.
The standing desk deserves a mention here, because it is genuinely one of the Space Call’s standout details and I will come back to it in more depth under space efficiency. But in terms of comfort: having the option to adjust the desk height means you are not locked into a single posture for the duration of your call or session. That matters more than it sounds, particularly if you are in there to record something and need to feel settled and in control.
3. Video Call Readiness
This is where the Space Call earns its highest mark, and where it most clearly justifies its existence as a distinct product from the rest of the Silen range.
The pod I tested at Welltek was configured with a screen that I connected my laptop to. The setup was immediate and the experience was noticeably elevated compared to working from a laptop alone. But the real story is the lighting.
The panel where a screen sits is flanked by side lights, each independently adjustable for colour temperature — warm through to cold white — layered on top of the pod’s overhead lighting above. What that gives you, practically, is the ability to build a lighting environment that is tuned for the specific thing you are doing. Taking a client video call requires different light than recording a podcast voiceover. Running a quick check-in looks different than filming a piece to camera for your company’s LinkedIn page. The Space Call, somewhat quietly, accommodates all of it.
I host the Future of Work Podcast, and I will be honest — sitting inside the Space Call, with the screen connected and the side lights dialled in, I found myself thinking about how good an episode would sound recorded from inside here. Clean acoustics, controlled light, no ambient noise bleeding in from the floor.
It is a genuinely compelling setup for anyone producing audio or video content as part of their work — not just for calls.
4. Space Efficiency
The Space Call’s footprint is 110×110 cm. That is small. On paper, it sounds like a squeeze.
In practice, it is not — and a lot of that comes down to one feature: the adjustable standing desk.
This is not a fixed table; it adjusts to your height, meaning that whether you are sitting or standing, working at a screen or recording audio, the surface meets you where you are rather than asking you to contort yourself to meet it. For a tall person — and there are a lot of us — that is not a minor detail. It is the difference between a pod that accommodates you and one that merely tolerates you.
The Space Call I tested did not have built-in seating. A chair was provided, and that flexibility is worth noting: buyers can use their own seating, insert what suits the space, or opt for Silen’s default option. It is another layer of the customization thinking that runs through this entire product family — you are not handed a fixed object and told to work around it.
For operators, the spatial arithmetic here is straightforward. A 110×110 cm footprint that delivers a fully functional, acoustically isolated, lighting-optimized call and content environment is an exceptionally efficient use of floor area.
You could fit several Space Calls into the footprint of one meeting room and serve far more people, far more flexibly, throughout the working day.
5. Operator Durability
Everything that makes the Space Meet 2 a long-term operator investment applies here, and the Space Call extends that logic into a higher-density deployment scenario.
Silen Dynamics — the magnetically attached exterior panel system — is present in the Space Call, with the same eleven exterior color options, customizable interior panels, and swappable seating choices. The pod can be recolored, rebranded, and refreshed without replacing the core structure.
For a coworking space that wants a row of Space Calls branded to their identity today and recolored for a different client tomorrow, this is the right system.
The 20+ year design life, individually replaceable components, and recyclable material structure all carry over from the broader Gen 2 platform. The sprinkler readiness provision is present here too — the same thoughtful nod to global compliance that means this pod can be deployed without regulatory redesign across different jurisdictions.
In terms of maintenance: straightforward. Glass panels require regular cleaning. Interior surfaces are accessible. Build quality throughout is robust — this is not a pod that will show its age quickly, either structurally or aesthetically.
The Space Call is also, at 325 kg, meaningfully lighter than the Space Meet 2’s 556 kg. Combined with the integrated wheels at the base, repositioning is simpler and faster. For operators managing dynamic, evolving floor plans, that is a practical advantage.
6. Adoption Likelihood
“Most spaces have nowhere to go when a call matters. The Space Call is the answer to a problem so common we stopped noticing it was a problem.”
Daniel Lamadrid, Associate Publisher Allwork.Space
The Space Call has a clear purpose, and it executes that purpose without ambiguity. It is a pod for calls, recordings, video meetings, and focused solo work that requires privacy. Step in, close the door, get it done, step out. That loop is seamless.
What I noticed is that the Space Call carries a different relationship with time than the Space Meet 2. The Meet 2 is a pod you could genuinely spend hours in — collaborative work, longer meetings, a proper working session. The Space Call feels oriented toward shorter, more purposeful visits. Not because it becomes uncomfortable, but because its design signals its intention: you are here to do one specific thing, and the pod is entirely configured to help you do it well. Once you are done, you leave. Someone else steps in.
For coworking operators especially, that turnover is a feature. A well-placed row of Space Calls can service a significant volume of members across a day without any single person monopolizing the space. The use case is self-limiting in the best possible way.
I have ADHD. My relationship with the environment is complicated — I need different spaces for different modes, and the transition between them matters enormously. The Space Call, like the Space Meet 2, nails the glass structure: you are acoustically isolated but visually connected to the space around you. You are not locked away. You are in a quieter version of the same room.
For someone who needs to regulate their environment without disconnecting from it entirely, that design choice is not cosmetic. It is functional.
And for operators who want to dial up the privacy level — say, for HR conversations, confidential calls, or member preference — a frosted vinyl on one or both glass panels achieves that immediately, at minimal cost, without modifying the pod itself.
The bottom line: if your space has people making calls, taking video meetings, recording content, or needing short bursts of solo focus, the Space Call earns its footprint every single day. It is not a luxury. It is a utility — and a well-designed one.
Strongest Feature
The lighting system for call and content scenarios. The combination of screen-flanking side lights with individual color temperature control, layered over the pod’s overhead lighting and managed from the same intuitive control panel, gives users a level of visual customization that is genuinely unusual in this product category. It turns the Space Call from a quiet box into a production-ready environment — without looking or feeling like a broadcast studio. That balance is difficult to achieve. Silen achieved it.
Biggest Limitation
The Space Call is purpose-built for short-to-medium use sessions. If someone needs a pod for a long, heads-down working day, this is not that product — the Space Meet 2 is. That is not a flaw in the Space Call’s design; it is a clarity of purpose.
But operators should plan their pod mix accordingly, and anyone choosing between the two should be honest about how they actually work.
Overall Score & Verdict
The Space Call is what happens when a brand that genuinely understands acoustic environments asks: what does a solo worker actually need from a phone booth? Not what looks good in a showroom, not what photographs well in a brochure — what solves the real, daily problem of needing privacy for a call and having nowhere to go.
The answer, apparently, is an adjustable standing desk, dual-zone customizable lighting built for screens, Class A acoustics in a footprint smaller than most bathroom stalls, and a customization system that lets operators make it their own without ever replacing it.
I tested it at the Welltek showroom in London, in a live space with real noise and no staged conditions. It performed exactly as it should — quietly, completely, and without asking me to compromise on anything.
“It is a phone booth. But significantly, meaningfully better.”
Daniel Lamadrid, Associate Publisher Allwork.Space
Reviewed following a hands-on visit to the Welltek showroom, London. Daniel Lamadrid is Associate Publisher at Allwork.Space.
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The Review
SILEN SPACE CALL
The Space Call has a clear purpose and executes it without ambiguity. It is a pod for calls, recordings, video meetings, and focused solo work that requires privacy. Step in, close the door, get it done, step out. That loop is seamless. It is a phone booth. But significantly, meaningfully better.
Review Breakdown
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Acoustic Isolation
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Airflow & Comfort
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Video Call Readiness
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Space Efficiency
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Operator Durability
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Adoption Likelihood
