Hollandse Nieuwe accomplished a inventive and playful house with ample room for collaboration on the iO Campus workplace in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
iO is a full-service digital company that mixes in-depth data and experience in technique, expertise, advertising and content material creation. In 2021, Hollandse Nieuwe and Cerius gained the competitors to create a versatile idea that might be rolled out to quite a lot of new iO places all through the Netherlands and Belgium.
Design ideas
The iO Campus idea is impressed by how iO sees the world. Working in an ever-changing market has led the corporate to constantly hunt down innovation, observe their curiosity and discover infinite alternatives. An iO work atmosphere subsequently must also embody these concepts. Hollandse Nieuwe have been tasked with growing a office that facilitates and encourages change, provides versatile areas and all kinds of various work typologies. In the end, every iO Campus was to be a novel vibrant office, united by shared objectives, offering revolutionary methods to study, collaborate, play and loosen up.Hollandse Nieuwe developed a scientific strategy to this Campus sequence, one that permits a number of tasks to run concurrently. Quite than creating every undertaking individually, a design toolkit was arrange to make sure every Campus capabilities in an analogous method and has a shared feel and appear. And whereas every location shares the identical iO DNA, the design ideas enable for every location to even have its personal distinctive, native parts, embedding every Campus in its host metropolis.
Dynamic ground plan
Every campus is organized across the concept of flexibility and maximizing the potential of house. Clusters of closed assembly areas, brainstorm areas and particular parts reminiscent of tribunes are fastidiously positioned to create large casual areas round and between them. In addition to offering acoustic safety, the open corners, deep partitions and niches of the clusters type locations for extra spontaneous, casual conferences, and new work typologies. Home windows via the clusters guarantee a visible connection throughout the campus. The design technique has extremely versatile parts: closed areas can simply be rearranged, open areas may be simply utilized in alternative ways and quite a lot of studio models are devoted purely to testing new methods of collaboration. This dynamic ground plan promotes motion, curiosity and spontaneous encounters, and builds upon the thought of a vibrant metropolis campus.Supplies and colors
Maintaining the prevailing uncooked finishes of every location as a impartial base, the fabric palette of the campus idea is obvious, concise and versatile, with room for persona and distinctive moments. A light-weight linoleum flooring, cement wool and an abundance of vegetation create a easy, sharp readability between the prevailing and the brand new. Furnishings curated from different iO places suits completely on this palette. The closed blocks and communal furnishings are constructed from ribs of sustainable birch plywood. The ribs enable straightforward enlargement or division of areas and supply a brand new visible rhythm. Accent colors and patterns from the iO model information, combined with work from native artists are used to form the within of the closed areas, the casual areas and the signage.Sustainability and wellbeing
The idea’s built-in flexibility complies with iO’s ambition in circularity and sustainability. Having a versatile, adaptable house creates the chance for steady adjustment reasonably than intensive rebuilding, addressing each brief in addition to long run office methods. This, coupled with sustainable materials decisions, concentrating vegetation into significant areas, maximising daylight and stimulating motion, creates a sequence of tasks that channel the thought of a Campus into new and revolutionary environments which might be about way more than solely work.
Design: Hollandse Nieuwe
Architect: MOKA Architecten
Venture Administration: Cerius
Pictures: Ewout Huibers