Magnificence & well being retailer Watsons employed inside design agency ID21 to design their new workplace in Singapore.
“The strategic integration of Watsons’ model language into their new work setting was a essential element of the undertaking. For instance, the reception space, breakout hub and assembly rooms are well-suited for bolder communications via the playful injections of brilliant colors, graphics and materials purposes. Conversely, our design language for the overall work areas was subtly expressed via muted color tones and comfy work settings.
A powerful sense of arrival has been created the place customers and guests are visually oriented to intuitively navigate via varied zones from this important junction area. Curved glass-wrapped assembly rooms conveniently located on the reception space present alternatives for informal landing discussions for workers or non-public conversations with shoppers and companions. ‘Color- altering’ dichroic movie has been used on the outside of the assembly rooms to create a vibrant iridescent glow when considered from totally different angles.
The central breakout space types the center of the area the place workers can congregate, making a convivial environment. The elevated platform at its perimeter supplies expansive views of town skyline whereas doubling up as a useful cupboard space. Numerous seating choices resembling bar tables, benches and semi-enclosed cubicles supply other ways for workers to work, unwind and collaborate. The area may also be reconfigured to help high-density conferences resembling company-wide occasions and townhalls.
The breakout space seamlessly transitions into the overall work space, offering clean circulation move. Numerous pockets of collaborative zones and informal work settings have been interspersed all through the versatile hotdesking space, providing casual areas conducive for fast discussions and impromptu conferences. Focus work areas and personal phonebooths strike a stability between particular person and group areas to help quite a lot of activity-based working situations.
By means of intentional design, Watsons’ new office catalyses conscious interactions amongst workers and sparks visible curiosity via using a daring and dynamic design language. The shift to a extra versatile, adaptable and modern office design has created a various setting for collaboration, focus and social change.”
- Location: Singapore
- Date accomplished: 2021
- Dimension: 12,000 sq. ft
- Design: ID21
- Images: Marcus Lim