Fokkema & Companions created an expert, but playful house for the Nationale-Nederlanden (NN) places of work in The Hague, Netherlands.
Nationale-Nederlanden (NN) makes a robust assertion with the entire renewal of its workplace surroundings in Rotterdam and The Hague within the Netherlands. The absolutely round, zero-waste renovation required an unconventional method, creating an thrilling new spatial expertise. Fokkema & Companions and Silo joined forces to design an Occasion Area and 4 Co-working Areas that facilitate interplay and immerse customers on this planet of NN.
All occasions in-house
Within the post-COVID world, folks make money working from home far more usually, and staff go to the workplace to satisfy their colleagues and enterprise contacts. This additionally applies to monetary providers supplier NN. Within the iconic bridge over the A12 motorway in The Hague, an Occasion Area has been realised the place staff and company can come collectively for vital events.The doorway to the Occasion Area is an interactive transition zone that places company in a artistic temper. Scintillating orange traces on the ceiling transfer with the guests as a translation of the power they bring about into the house.
In a pleasant and brilliant surroundings, guests are welcomed at a big mirrored bar: the central place to satisfy up and join. Biophilic design rules and round supplies give a pure sense of consolation and talk NN’s sustainability values. The receding partitions invite you to wander additional into the Occasion Area, whereas the perforated metal ceiling is harking back to a cover. The organically formed auditorium is clad in flax-based scales, resembling a pine cone or feathers of a fowl.
The center of the Occasion Area is the darkish, participating auditorium with state-of-the-art AV amenities. Cell seating parts and intelligent curtain rails make the house simply adaptable.
After the session, company collect on the bar the place the sustainability philosophy has been applied even on a gastronomic degree. The built-in method ensures that every one Occasion Area customers expertise the organisation’s core values at each alternative.
Exercise-based working within the Co-working Areas
The Co-working Areas are cross-departmental and unfold over 4 spacious wings in The Hague and Rotterdam. Colleagues from different cities can use the landing desks, and groups can reserve a undertaking house to collaborate for a extra prolonged interval. Every of those wings focuses on a theme vital to NN: creativity, neighborhood, sustainability and vitality. Strolling alongside the strategically positioned volumes, which embody brainstorming rooms and quiet workplaces, the subject of the wing unfolds step-by-step.Within the vitality house – the place all the things revolves round an lively way of life – one finds tennis desk desks, orange monkey bars, illustrations encouraging motion, and mosaics fabricated from residual supplies. NN’s model essence, ‘You matter’, is represented in a marble run that provides dynamism and lightness to the office.
A part of a round transformation
The Occasion Area and Co-working Areas are a part of the entire renovation of all workplace flooring on the two NN areas. The excellent harvest plan for this renovation has resulted within the largest round ‘harvest corridor’ within the Netherlands. An inspiring reservoir of concepts and a brand new aesthetic are created by connecting all materials flows and enabling producers to contribute their experience on environment friendly processing.
Design: Fokkema & Companions
Images: Lucas van der Wee