EFA studio di architettura

Fitting out of executive offices

PLACE
Parma

STATUS
Achieved

CHRONOLOGY
2017

CATEGORY
Workplaces, interior architecture, exhibition design.

A SPACE FOR DYNAMIC WORK.

A complete overhaul of the interior spaces of an office building to create the headquarters of a multinational company. The project acted as a laboratory for experimentation for the company, which intended to radically transform its operating methods, abandoning the traditional system of single or double offices to adopt an open space layout, thus promoting and consolidating synergies and exchanges of ideas between employees.

Each of the four floors proposes a different planivolumetric scheme, in which the degree of openness and sharing of spaces meets the needs of the individual departments, and is confronted with a space strongly constrained by the presence of four central pillars and an inadequate inter-floor height to accommodate the necessary equipment.

Functions for temporary use (such as meeting rooms, phone booths, concentration rooms and small archives) thus become compositional elements capable of modulating the spaces of the floor plan in different ways and permitting full integration of the systems, through lowered ceilings and vertical drops, guaranteeing the necessary environmental comfort and an adequate degree of privacy among the workstations. Like objects freely inserted in the plan, the partially glazed volumes generate areas of different sizes, in which the workstations are aggregated in variable combinations, separated by storage modules. Large sliding walls make it possible to temporarily isolate some workstations from the others in order to meet special privacy requirements.

CREDITS

CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT
A.I.erre

ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL INSTALLATIONS PROJECT
COSTEL & Partners

PHOTOGRAPHS

Marco Buzzoni