#COMMERCIAL ARCHITECTURE PROJECTS
Planning Center Online Headquarters
At World-Architects.com, we are interested in the evolving nature of the workplace, especially in terms of technology's influence.
Both the location of work and the design of its setting are changing as service-sector work relies increasingly on portable computing and wireless communications. The architects sent us some text about the project, which creates a series of relaxed spaces for a variety of individual and team working conditions.
The new space facilitates the relocation of a growing and creative software tech company with a dynamic and casual work method. Walking through a graphically and spatially bold entry passage, one connects directly into the workplace, an open, relaxed space with fluid group desks, comfortable lounge seating, strong colors and team meeting volumes clad with oriented strand board and floor-ceiling glass.
A concrete-floored walkway “spine” connects the rhythmic wall of offices along the edge of the workspace, and is frequently animated by scooter, skateboard, and bicycle traffic, and occasionally even the site of beanbag and Frisbee tosses. The building interior is kept whole, ordered lengthwise by a bar of enclosed offices, webcast and phone rooms, and bathrooms, leaving the bulk of space a series of flexible subspaces that are equally comfortable for individual programming and small team collaborations.
No printers, no copiers, no servers, no paper filing, no assigned cubicles, no time clock; work happens wirelessly anywhere throughout the building. Custom-designed desks provide shared, adaptable, unassigned, wireless and paperless work space for individual or small-group programming. Team rooms host collective efforts while loosely breaking up the workspace. Loose lounge seating and work-bar counters give employees options to create comfortably and to enjoy broad views to the adjacent canyon descending to the Pacific.
