View from the entry.

The typical interior corridor is virtually extended through the tenant space, differentiating conference and office zones, culminating in a translucent lens at the exterior window wall mapping Austrade’s global network, announcing their presence to neighbors both within the building and without.

This interior office renovation seeks to break the customary linear, orthogonal office organization with the innovative rethinking of standard components while reinforcing the client’s mission of promoting openness and exchange.

Plan. The conferencing area is contained in one zone and the open office in another.

Exploring identity and identification for the entry space.

The existing base building infrastructure was meticulously mapped and a new undulating ceiling surface inserted providing maximum height and variation.

Up-lighting in a continuous cove along the sloped surfaces increases the perception of height and expansiveness.

The particular Video Conference requirements presented another opportunity for innovation; the need for a large identifiable graphic of the host city took the form of a 30 foot, full-height wraparound image of Washington DC’s Tidal Basin. This graphic creates flow between the conference rooms and break-out room, stretching the spatial and social boundaries of each.

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The building’s standard lighting grid is replaced with dual up-light / down-light pendant fixtures whose components are circuited separately. An automated daylight-harvesting system maximizes energy-efficiency.

New user-adjustable workstations foster ad-hoc teaming sessions with bar-height surfaces and markerboard skins while still maintaining a measure of visual and acoustic privacy for individual workers.

Impromptu and increased communications are crucial motivations to rethinking the open office area where standard systems furnishings have been reworked into distinctive ‘pinwheel’ pods.