Located in the heart of Amsterdam Science Park is MVRDV’s design for Matrix 1, an office and laboratory complex that combines standard laboratories with playful and spacious social areas. The University of Amsterdam (UvA) has reached an agreement to occupy around a quarter of the 13,000m2 building to host the SustainaLab, a specialist facility for research into sustainability that aims to stimulate creative cooperation between education, research, government, and entrepreneurship. The construction of Matrix 1 is expected to start in 2020, with the opening planned for the beginning of 2022.
This is a big coastal development project for the historic Sevkabel factory (Siemens & Halske), situated on Vasilyevsky Island. The site is located in an industrial district, placed right between the street (Kozhewennaya linia) and the Gulf of Finland. Old red-brick 19-th century buildings of the Siemens & Halske manufactory coexist with and industrial facilities of the 70s of the 20th century on the same site.
These buildings are located in different Coordinate grids of the brick and concrete buildings differ from each other, and that diference creates complex, trapezoidal spaces between them. Dealing with an existing environment, we focused our efforts on the renovation and adaptation of existing buildings, as well as on the preservation of the industrial genius loci. This approach allowed us to emphasize the existing features of the site, including some of the industrial artefacts.
Opening of the new Zalando Headquarters in Berlin “We want a house that we can occupy” – that was the competition briefing given to HENN for the new Zalando Headquarters in Berlin in 2015. It is more than simply a new office space for 2,500 staff members belonging to Europe’s leading online fashion platform. Rather, a space that embodies the spirit of the original start-up, that is flexible, dynamic and unites the company’s divisions which were previously scattered across the city, under one roof.
The core of the main building is the central atrium, which shifts its openings along its vertical ascension, thus drawing daylight to the public areas below. The central lobby is flanked by a grand staircase with integrated seating and lounge areas which can also be used for events. The atrium in combination with the adjacent auditorium, create a spatial continuum that extends over numerous floors, thus enhancing the users flexibility.
CUN寸DESIGN proposed the concept of corporate operation space. It is the first space design team in China to combine the concepts of art creativity, technology office and green office to complete the efficiency of corporate office. CUN remains a pioneer in the field of office design development. Every year, our latest thinking on the trends in the office space will be released.
As CUN寸DESIGN grows, we haven’t limited our design thinking to space design, but spread it to wider areas. In recent years, CUN寸DESIGN has focused on helping real-estate companies solve practical problems in a fundamental way so as to magnify the business value of real-estate projects.
The history of Sordo Madaleno encompasses over eight decades of architecture and design. Having been based at Reforma 2076 in the Lomas de Chapultepec neighborhood since the 1980s, the steady growth in the size of the teams both at the architecture studio (SMA) and the real estate development firm (GSM) made it necessary to design and build a new headquarters.
Strategically located at one of the most important economic and cultural hubs of Mexico City (Nuevo Polanco), the new HQ was designed by our own Interior Design department, taking the corporate design to a more challenging level for being our own client.
Floors three to five of the Antara II Corporate Offices—itself designed by SMA—are home to the strategically distributed offices of both parts of Sordo Madaleno.
Understand an agency's operation to think about the project that would be implemented in a building designed to be multipurpose and in search of an investor was the starting point of the proposal for the design of interiors of SuperLimão for the new headquarters of Ampfy in Vila Madalena neighborhood in Sao Paulo (Brazil). Commissioned by the client for this work, came the information that the project would be based on a building projected by Reinach Mendonça Architects Associates (RMAA).
Location: R. Girassol, 953 – Vila Madalena, São Paulo – SP
Photography: Maíra Acayaba
Building Architecture: Reinach Mendonça Arquitetos Associados
Project Team: SuperLimão Studio + Ampfy – Antonio Carlos Figueira de Mello, Lula Gouveia, Thiago Rodrigues, Ana Galante, Beatriz Marcolin, Carolina Gurgel, Inaiá Botura e Letícia Domingues.
History portrays that the architecture and structure of a building have been the same for many centuries generating great constructions. However in the last decades these two concepts have been detached from each other, generating new opportunities thus affecting their relationship of integrality.
In the particular case of 8111 we were motivated by the idea of testing this fusion so we proposed a diagrid type structure system, which allows the structure to be the expression of the same architecture due to the following reasons: The first is that being a system associated with diagonals and not with straight columns and beams in between slabs, it is much more demanding in the way in which structure and function must be integrated, especially so that the diagonals do not affect the flexibility of space. On the other hand, the efficiency of the diagrid mesh systems is closely linked to its application in the perimeter of the building in such a way that it becomes the façade and image of its architecture; a very singular and unique image as it distances itself from the traditional solution of porticoes. Another particular aspect is its materiality. These systems are mainly solved with metallic structures and, less common but also widely recurrent, in concrete structures. In the case of 8111 concrete was chosen as its main material where its expression is more marked and distinctive, resulting in a unique architecture that consolidates and takes advantage of its predominant location to generate an iconic building in the city.
“Turkey's one of the biggest startup” GETIR with 1,200 employees has an office area of 1,600 square meters on two floors in Etiler Doğuş Center.
In order to provide more innovative and flexible office space for the employees of GETIR HQ, employers held a competition with the specific brief and timing.
In this brief, approximately 350 square meters of the 1,600 square meters was allocated as “The Village Square”. This area was explained as the founders and employees are in the same place without any hierarchy in the startup spirit. The competition process ran for 1 month, videos and visualizations were also presented. Especially the progressive ideas behind “The Village Square” was set forth by URBANJOBS. After winning the competition, the design process was launched.
“The Village Square” was demanded as a multi- functional area to be used for meetings doing pilates, holding concerts where employees can easily chill and socialize.
There was a bit challenging thing about this brief: The founders and employees to exist in the same environment with transparency. While providing privacy for the founders, it should also be ensured that employees feel themselves comfortable.
Rapidly expanding architecture practice HofmanDujardin needed a new Amsterdam home that reflected its unique design philosophy, Shaping Intuition®. So the team conducted a collaborative ‘in-house’ design project to create the HofmanDujardin Office Villa inside an old warehouse. The space is already energising the team, inspiring visitors and proving that an office can be much more than just a place to work.
Form and Function
HofmanDujardin needed more space for its growing team and the new headquarters also had to foster a lively environment for creative work and social activities. Because an architecture firm’s office is also its shop window, it had to demonstrate the team’s creative skills and technical capabilities.
Most importantly of all, however, it had to follow HofmanDujardin’s guiding concept for all projects – Shaping Intuition®. This is a personal approach to architecture, developed over the firm’s 20-year career, which focuses on the well-being of people in their environments.
Decathlon Shenzhen Innovation Hub and Offices is an essential research hub for the brand. This center is responsible for industrial and material innovation for the brand, as well as research prototyping. The hub’s location also makes it an important supply chain point for Southern China. Research, innovation, and logistics are all brought within one place, in the OCT LOFT Shenzhen creative district.
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