SQUAD
Location: Kyiv, Ukraine
Kind: public, workplace
Space: 7 650 sqm
Yr: 2021
Standing: Accomplished
Architects: Maksym Parokonnyi, Valentyna Perevalova, Julia Koberidze, Antonina Savchenko, Alex Pedko, Oles Kuntsevych, Dmytro Svintsov
Navigation design: Pavlo Velichko
Picture Credit score: Alex Pedko
SQUAD is a brand new workplace area situated on 5 flooring in a renovated manufacturing facility constructing within the middle of Kyiv, which has turn into the primary residence for a big IT firm and created a possibility to unite all its divisions below one roof. The idea of the undertaking was to create a fine-tuned and adaptive ecosystem optimized for a productive workflow even throughout a pandemic. On this workplace, as an alternative of the usual steparation of labor and leisure processes, each actions are mixed right into a dynamic decoration of spatial components. Totally different in dimension, type, and performance, they create a community of visible connections, during which cozy corners alternate with open galleries, which provides continuity and visible range to the area. The prevailing construction of the constructing imposed extreme restrictions on implementing a multi-story three-dimensional residing organism of the workplace into it, so the answer was to make all flooring virtually fully autonomous, introducing massive, unifying, company-wide capabilities on particular person flooring.
The decrease 4 flooring are workspaces with all the required infrastructure, espresso factors, recreation, and workplace area. The highest flooring has a very completely different character, it’s fully centered on communication and recreation. It has a kitchen, a eating room that transforms into an occasion corridor and a large gallery alongside the complete facade with a blended perform of desks and recreation. A function of this flooring is the summer season terrace, oriented in the direction of the sundown. Giant home windows invite the pure surroundings of the terrace into the room. Comfy outside furnishings, colourful landscaping, and tall grass, create the sensation of a rustic property within the sky over the town.
For the reason that design happened in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, options aimed on the distant work and security had been built-in within the undertaking from the very begin. Attributable to work at home most workplaces had been envisioned as shared desks, so a completely adaptive area system was chosen to create optimum working situations for any worker. Via a particular QR-code the colour and temperature of lighting are individually adjusted. tables have top adjustment. From the entrance, the workplaces are separated by translucent acrylic partitions, and on the edges, there are tall cupboards, which on the identical time present safety and handy cupboard space. There are sufficient lockers on the ground for protected storage of private belongings within the absence of a everlasting office. The workplace has been reworked right into a platform for communication, teamwork, laboratory duties and different processes which might be tough to carry out remotely. Groups can customise the recreation areas situated close to the workstations for any of those duties, because of cellular, modular furnishings components.
Mixing the tough, expressed panorama of the commercial constructing framework with the easy and purposeful design of a contemporary workplace was one of many key challenges on this undertaking, so a “field in a field” approach was used to intensify the sleek surfaces of the brand new performance by means of a sure transitional vacuum. This strategy creates a boundless panorama of artwork, vegetation and furnishings of various colours and textures. The workplace resembles a sculpture backyard, the place you are feeling calm and protected, however at all times in contact together with your environment. Just like the solar’s rays on a white wall, the area is gentle and heat. It was created as a “clean sheet”, open to creativity, freed from limitations and stuffed with prospects.
