오피스랜스 스케이프의 시작은 회사가 추구하는 기업이미지 고취와 직원들의 막힘없는 소통공간을 통한 효율적인 비즈니스 플랜을 세우는데 있다. 이러한 컨셉은 기존 오피스 공간에 덧붙여진 장식물을 제거, 건축물 본연의 공간을 노출시키며, 각 공간의 특성에 걸맞는 기능적 요소와 디자인요소가 삽입, 배치된다. -벽면을 채우는 슈퍼그래픽, 패턴 그리고 각 공간의 위계를 정의하는 플로어 패턴, 노출된 천장면에 매달린 스타일리쉬한 램프- 무엇보다 소통공간 확보를 위해 계획된 다양한 형태의 미팅공간은 개개인의 휴식은 물론 비즈니스 모델, 작업의 특성에 따라 개방성, 기능성, 디자인을 달리하며 요소요소에 배치된다.
reviewed by SJ
The panoramic view of San Francisco’s waterfront from Cisco-Meraki’s new offices in some way sets the theme for O+A’s design. Viewed from almost any angle, the interiors create and impression of light, spaciousness, bright color, long sightlines. Meraki, which was recently acquired by Cisco Systems, takes pride in the elegance of the wireless routers it designs. O+A sought to build the space the way Cisco-Meraki builds its products, with an emphasis on simplicity and seamless ease of use, while remaining mindful of the importance of the Cisco-Meraki merger to the company’s identity. Located in the rapidly changing Mission Bay neighborhood, Cisco’s 110,000 square foot suite of offices now becomes Cisco’s principal San Francisco location.
At the outset O+A surveyed Meraki’s employees to find out what they liked about their old, much smaller headquarters. A consensus emerged for natural light, plenty of collaboration space and preservation of the company’s tightly knit culture. The size of the new space and the prominence of its floor-to-ceiling windows made collaboration and natural light relatively easy bills to incorporate. O+A’s design offers a variety of meeting spaces – formal and informal, indoor and outdoor – many of them bathed in the crystalline light of San Francisco Bay. The scale and the light support both a rich palette of colors and design elements: a wide staircase with integrated stadium seating at its base, a meeting room with hanging tillandsia plants, and an outdoor deck offering views of the baseball park and Bay Bridge.
Maintaining Meraki’s cozy ambience in the hangar-sized complex proved more challenging. O+A’s solution was to create a medley of small gathering spaces within the larger footprint. Sunken seating brings intimacy to horizontal common areas while preserving broad sightlines. Yurts, cabanas and phone rooms offer varying levels of enclosure. Throughout the office, colleagues can sit down and talk in information lounge spaces.
Despite the rich finishes and the wide array of typologies, one of O+A’s goals was to give Cisco-Meraki employees a blank canvas on which to paint their own pictures. In lieu of pervasive branding graphics, O+A provided ubiquitous chalkboards, whiteboards, and corkboards so that employees could sketch, write, and pin-up graphics meaningful to them. As might be expected, given the company’s strong do-it-yourself culture, mobility and adaptability were big factors in the selection of furniture and workstations. These are people who like to move things around.
The intention was to tame the big space and make it human. Watching Meraki employees travel from department to department via unicycle, gather for lunch on the breezy deck, or make use of the yurts and wall “pop-ins” throughout the day, we believe that goal was achieved.
from contemporist