캔디 크러쉬 사가로 우리나라에도 잘 알려져 있는 비디오게임 개발 업체인 King 사의 스톡홀름 오피스에서는 회전목마 식탁과 트램폴린 의자를 발견할 수 있다.
스웨덴 디자인 에이전시인 아돌프슨&파트너스가 이번 프로젝트를 주도했는데, Sveavägen 44의 1940년대에 지어진 대형 건물 내에 위치한 King의 사무실들은 2층으로 분리되어 있다. 사무 공간들은 King 사의 게임들에 등장하는 캐릭터들과 디자인을 조합한 다양한 배경을 한 테마존으로 구성되어 있다.
이번 프로젝트에 대한 기획사의 목적은 "King사의 소울을 통신하는 독창적인 사무 공간"으로 "왕국이라고 불릴만한 '재미'와 '마법'이 있는 장소"를 디자인하는 것이었다.
아돌프슨&파트너스는 "유머와 지적인 솔루션이 모두 혼합되어 있는 다채롭고 에너지 가득한 사무실을 창조하는 것이 우리의 목적이었다."면서 "이 곳은 King사가 만드는 것과 그들이 믿는 것 - 그것을 사무실에 녹여내는 것이다."라고 설명했따.
오피스 내 가장 큰 장소는 파빌리온 파크라고 불리는 곳이었는데, 회사 직원들이 동시에 모두 이곳에 모여 즐길 수 있는 "파티 장소" 같은 곳이다.
녹색의 널판지로 벽을 구성하고 중앙에는 피크닉 테이블을 두었으며, 회전 목마와 같은 구조 내 부스 좌석을 구성하였다.
데스크는 매직포레스트, 그린힐, 트레저아일랜드, 컨트리사이드&딥시라는 이름으로 유동적으로 구성가능한 공간들이 아래층 외곽으로 구성되어 있다.
미팅룸들은 다른 King사의 게임을 기반으로 하고 있는데 유리벽 위에 캐릭터들이 비닐로 디스플레이 되어 있다.
reviewed by ZH,오사
Carousel dining tables and trampoline seats are among the cartoonish fittings in the Stockholm offices for King, the company behind popular video game Candy Crush Saga.
Created by Swedish design agency Adolfsson & Partners, the offices for interactive game developer King are split over two floors within a large 1940s building located at Sveavägen 44.
The spaces are divided into zones themed around different landscapes, incorporating characters and designs from King games.
Photography is by Joachim Belaieff unless specified otherwise.
The agency's aim for the project was to design "a creative office landscape that communicates King's soul, a place that with 'fun' and 'magic' as its watchwords can be called a kingdom".
"We created a colourful and energy-filled office featuring both humour and intelligent solutions," said Adolfsson & Partners. "This is an office that reflects King – what they create and what they believe in."
Visitors are greeted at a white, egg-shaped reception desk and directed to the coloured meeting areas by coordinated signage.
The largest space is called Pavilion Park and is designed as a "party room" to accommodate all of the company's employees at once.
Green planks cover the walls and form picnic tables in the centre of the space, while booth seating is created inside carousel-like structures.
Desk spaces around the outside of the lower level are zoned into flexible areas named Magic Forest, Green Hills, Treasure Island, Countryside and Deep Sea – each with its own meeting facilities, private work rooms and relaxation spaces.
Meeting rooms are based on different King games, with their characters displayed as vinyls on the tinted glass walls.
"King uses a scrum-based work method and therefore requires a flexible solution for its workstations when the teams change their size and composition, as well as places for both quick stand-up meetings and longer meetings in rooms," said Adolfsson & Partners.
The work areas are divided by mobile textile screens shaped like trees, waves and other landscape features depending on the zone they are located in. These help to provide sound insulation along with the grey carpet, which is speckled in different hues from zone to zone.
Perforated partitions, custom-designed furniture units and other office accessories are also coloured to match their "landscape".
An internal staircase links the upper and lower floors, located in a communal area called Kingtown that is split over the two levels.
"The theme is the city with its outdoor life, building sites and street art," said the agency. "A meeting place for everyone and a space for playing, lounging about in the sofas or chillaxing in the giant hammocks."
More open-plan office space in areas named Sandy Dunes, Mountain Tops and Wild Jungle can be found on the upper floor, which measures around half the size of the storey below.
Sandy Dunes features desert-coloured partitions and cacti plants, as well as a yellow relaxation room furnished with the Spanish designer Patricia Urquiola's Bandas seating, which is patterned with oversized stitches.
Elsewhere, a carpentry workshop has walls lined with yellow-painted pegboard, while a library designed for quiet activities is coloured dark green. There's also a games room and a pinball hall for employees to use during their breaks.
"Using King's 200 games for inspiration, we created an environment where all the employees can work and be inspired within a world of games," the designers said. "We didn't build an office – we created a kingdom."
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