Open Office Design D

Project Description

Client:  Antunovich Associates
Location:  Washington DC, United States
Surface Area: 9,000 sqft
Year Completed:   2018
Photography: Ken Wyner
Design: Antunovich Associates

Antunovich Associates have woven together the natural character of the historic Uline arena with neutral and natural tones for their newly relocated architecture office in Washington DC.

The Challenges

Antunovich Associates is a design firm with offices located in Chicago and Washington DC. The project is a relocation of the Washington DC office to the NoMa neighborhood of DC. The office is located in the Icehouse portion of the historic Uline Arena building; an architectural landmark that serves as a catalyst for revitalization of this exciting urban neighborhood.

The architecture of the office preserves the natural character of the historic Uline arena, while incorporating neutral and natural tones to create a collaborative and open studio environment. The vibe is a sophisticated-industrial, raw-but-refined, youthful-energetic design that endorses flexible use spaces, elegant conference areas, and a lively open architecture studio. The design employs dark gray accents, solid maple feature walls, full-glass conference rooms, butcherblock desk tops, raised wood floor platforms, luxury chevron wall tile, custom monkey bars, in-suite bathrooms, salvaged Uline arena seating, and flexible office furniture; all with subtle color accents to enhance a refined-neutral pallet.

The office has a street-level entry with doors open to the surrounding neighborhood; the front portion of the office is a public and social stage for events, lunch breaks, and study. A full-glass storefront opens the office entry directly to the street. Tall windows in the rear of the office suite overlook a public courtyard and provide natural light into the design studio.

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Open Office Design B

Project Description

Client:  Ruhnn Culture
Location:  Hangzhou, China
Surface Area: 138,297 sqft
Year Completed:   2019
Photography: Li Mingwei, Zhou Yan, Zhao Donglin
Architect:  inDeco

inDeco completed the offices for Ruhnn Culture with intentional design for function and form, located in Hangzhou, China.

The Challenges

Instant, efficient and free communication is essential for Ruhnn Culture, since it’s at the forefront of Internet trends. Considering this, inDeco created an open office area, which ensures close connection among the staff and makes the space more inspirational. The designers adopted delicate and rational bluish gray as a basic hue, while shaking off complicated designs and excessive decorations, thereby created a simplistic yet dynamic space as well as a free working atmosphere.

Partitions on the desk and in the space well balances privacy and openness. People, objects and the space are integrated, together generating flexible and diversified working scenes. The hollowed-out partitions within the space look like windows and beautiful pictures, which separate different sections while connecting them as well.

The arched shape of each letter of the brand name “Ruhnn” are subtly incorporated into the design of those partitions, which perfectly blends the brand’s visual identity into the space, makes the space animated and endows it with a sense of layering.

For KOLs and e-commerce, shooting, photographing and live streaming are the most essential ways for monetizing traffic. As designing photography studios, inDeco adopted walls capable of avoiding shadows, and figured out an appropriate spatial depth in order to maximize the use of space and better serve for models’ physical behaviors during shooting.

The attribute of Ruhnn Culture determines that its workspace needs to accommodate multiple functions and areas for display clothing and products need to be created in the limited space. Considering this, inDeco tried to figure out more possibilities, and ingeniously utilized the corridor space outside live stream rooms and photography studios. The walls along the corridors are used for displaying products, which enriches visual experiences in the long skinny area.

inDeco arranged the spatial pattern of the corridors based on user experiences and product display, and created various display settings according to functional needs and the circulation route. The corridors provide a smooth sight line, which enables people to immerse themselves in the space and the display and hence creates a more harmonious relationship between people and space. Twisting and continuous corridors link up the entire space, allowing people to experience unique playfulness and a sense of layering in it. The designers believe that the form of design should follow functionality. Therefore, they innovatively added Arabic numbers and light boxes to the exterior walls of photography studios and live stream rooms, which enables users to quickly find the rooms and identify their status of use. Such design perfectly unifies functionality and aesthetic.

Based on sophisticated combination and calculation, the designers set many public leisure spaces around functional areas. Those spaces not also support adjacent functional areas but also bring fabulous landscape and facilities for the staff. The glass generates reflections and creates a reversed illusionary space. Real objects and glass reflections present distinct visual effects, which feature interweaving of interior and outdoor views as well as integration of dynamism and calmness.

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Open Office Design A

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Project Description

Client: Bain & Company
Location:  Gurgaon, India
Surface Area: 54,000 sqft
Year Completed:   2019
Photography: Rohit Kumar
Architect: 

Architect Vistasp & Associates was tasked with the design of the Bain Tak Centre office, a management consulting company located in Gurgaon, India.

The Challenges

The GBS (Global Business Services) arm of our consulting client wanted to have a Technology Analytics & Knowledge centre (TAK Centre) which would be the pride of not just the Indian entity but across the globe, as well.

The site was square in shape and had restricted light on two opposite sides only! Our design approach was accordingly tailored to ensure light and views were democratically shared across the work place. I. Addition, we wanted the new office to represent TAK (Technology, Analytics and Knowledge) and so we cared a social space in the centre of the entire site with a massive symbolic Knowledge Tree! Everything else was made to revolve around this!

The design is based on a neighborhood concept that fundamentally breaks down a large open office space into 9 self sustaining parts that can co exist independently. Each of these “bays” would be self sustaining in that they have their own booths, MFDs, meeting rooms and cabins in an associated manner!

The attempt was to ensure that these bays were visually and physically well linked to the central TREE Social space! The reception was conceived to be optimal and functional, but with its “signature cutting planes” ideation, it makes a statement entry! Very business like and very forward looking with the video wall as the focus!

The meeting rooms and board room are clustered around the reception zone, as is the expandable set of training rooms and coffee counter. The large central Knowledgetree area has three customised PODS made that allow for discussions within a very social space that also consists of stepped arena,s plants, green walls and open huddle spaces!

The monochrome use of space with accents of red and cream are interspersed with graphics that enhance the cool vibe of this knowledge centre. All work stations are height adjustable that allow for sit stand use age and are proven to be medically better for the end users.

The use of green plants and green walls is not just for aesthetics. It to also help in Indoor Air Quality! The paints are all Low VOC based and every attempt has been made to use materials that are LEEDs Certified, be it furniture, carpets, lights, chairs etc.

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