Workplace for Technology Engineers

Pattern Finders

Workplace for Technology Engineers

Sunnyvale, CA

Biophilic by Design

Designed for highly focused technology engineers, this workplace leverages biophilic principles to enhance concentration and collaboration, and lower stress. A new skylit central stair promotes movement and visual connection between floors. Code- and nature-inspired patterns integrate in unexpected ways through light installations, graphics and materials, creating a strong connection to the greater campus.

Promoting Wellness and Performance

Work neighborhoods are organized around daylight and views, encouraging well-being. To promote focus, enclosed meeting rooms and offices are positioned to create an acoustical and visual buffer. Corridors leading to social and collaboration zones use patterned light to signal a shift from focused thought to a more energetic, social mood.

Sparking Collaboration, Uniting a Campus

The ground floor features large meeting rooms and a coffee shop to draw engineers from across the campus, increasing idea exchange and strengthening relationships. A meandering walking path stitches the three-building campus together, inviting outdoor team collaboration.

Various seating groupings and postures within the coffee shop support a range of activities from working on laptops to informal meetings.

Custom copper light fixtures, a reference to copper pour-over coffee kettles, create a luminous ceiling. Sliding panels allow the back room to be closed off, offering privacy or reservable space for groups.

Custom tiles inspired by latte art wrap the service bar. Copper shelving allows for display of featured products.

The ground-floor coffee shop draws engineers from across the campus to work, collaborate and socialize.

Inspired by the art of coffee making, the design palette references coffee’s warmth and richness. Walls clad in recycled burlap bags further the coffee reference and introduce a tactile texture within the space.

An over-scaled light fixture highlights the pool table in the game room. A sliding partition allows the space to connect with the adjacent kitchen.

The central stair connects kitchens and unique amenity spaces on all floors, encouraging movement and exploration.

Code-inspired patterns are integrated on each floor in unexpected ways: kitchen tiles, projected light and graphics create a dynamic experience.

Conference rooms throughout the building feature nature-inspired graphics and a variety of seating postures. Here, a custom kaleidoscopic sky wallcovering and high-back upholstered lounge chairs create a dreamy, calming space to collaborate.

A central stair connects micro-kitchens on all floors, encouraging movement across levels and diverse work settings.

Artwork and light patterns overlap creating a dynamic experience in spaces that do not get natural daylight. Creative references to code are found throughout each floor--here, QR code inspired both the light pattern and the layout of the art wall.

Kitchens offer unique opportunities for chance encounters and working away from desks.

Work areas are protected by a wood and acrylic screen wall buffering acoustical and visual distractions. Single-person booths are carved out of shared office volumes, offering a place away from the desk to focus. Graphics and patterned light differentiate floors and assist in wayfinding.

Corridors leading to social and collaboration zones use patterned light to signal a shift from focused thought to a more energetic, social mood.

A variety of patterned light creates a unique wayfinding strategy between floors. The dappled light mimics natural patterns found outdoors.

Elements of surprise are dispersed throughout the building—here, a hidden door within a library bookcase leads to a quiet space for individuals to focus away from their desks.

Libraries feature distinctive views to the surrounding landscape. Individual and group settings allow the space to be used in multiple ways.

Angled walls and wood-clad storefront shelter break-out lounges and create a dynamic rhythm along the corridor. Pattern, color and natural materials support the overall biophilic strategy, sparking creative thinking and lowering stress.

Lounges are situated outside of meeting rooms to facilitate break out meetings as well as spontaneous collaborations. Access to daylight and views helps increase concentration and lowers stress.

The surrounding landscape supports socializing, collaboration and individual work—creating a strong indoor-outdoor connection.

Pattern Finders

Workplace for Technology Engineers