One Area accomplished a dynamic area for the Ocean Community Categorical workplaces with area for collaboration and centered work in Hong Kong.
With a fleet of over 1.6 million ships, Ocean Community Categorical (‘ONE’), is the sixth largest container transport firm on this planet. Rising in 2018 from the legacy of three Japanese liner firms, ONE is a cross-cultural enterprise: A Japanese Holding Firm, a Singapore Working Firm, and a Hong Kong regional headquarters. Impressed by this story, One Area was tasked to design ONE’s new regional headquarters in Hong Kong.
The challenge goals have been clear from the outset: To create a extremely agile area for ONE’s new house at The Gateway in Tsim Sha Tsui, that will embed evolving patterns of labor, help Exercise Based mostly Work, and most significantly reinforce ONE’s core philosophy of embracing other ways of considering, totally different cultures, and totally different skillsets.
The area overlooks its iconic dockside, offering unmatched panoramic views throughout Victoria Harbour and the South China Sea past. We labored hand-in-hand with CBRE’s office technique group to develop concepts for versatile work – starting from ergonomic work settings to an natural zoning mannequin – that will facilitate mobility, selection of workstyle and enhanced collaboration.
ONE’s unusually robust model identification would additionally want pronounced expression in these premises. One want solely look throughout a container port in any metropolis served by ONE to identify the corporate’s vibrant magenta-coloured containers and vessels. This was a chance to not be missed.
Though the whole-floor premises supplied ample entry to sunlight and views, the floorplate’s restricted depth and quite a few massive columns required imaginative area planning options. Our planning technique exploits these ‘obstacles’ in quite a lot of methods to remodel them into shared facilities that assist set up frictionless interactions throughout departments and groups.
In the identical method that ONE’s container ships traverse the world’s oceans, our planning idea evokes folks to maneuver fluidly throughout the assorted work-zones. Different Workpoints – unassigned seats & tabletops the place one can work comfortably for a couple of hours – are strategically positioned to grow to be engaging alternate options to standard workstations.
On the coronary heart of the floorplate, an off-the-cuff Reception zone anchors a set of extremely adaptable multi-purpose areas, designed to attract collectively colleagues for collaboration, studying and socialisation. Our designers took inspiration from the ocean and dockside for these areas: An intricately detailed mannequin ship is on show right here, in addition to a symbolic marine telescope poised on the home windows and peering onto the horizon, paying homage to yesteryear’s seamen looking out for cargo ships coming in from the ocean.
A Work Cafe instantly adjoining the Reception area is appointed with quite a lot of seating varieties and is flanked by a full-height video wall. This room might be joined onto the Reception area to accommodate a variety of occasions, reminiscent of City Halls, Seminars, Cocktail Receptions, and so forth. praise.
Design: One Area
Design Crew: Elaine Ho, Daniel Lam and Jan Chui
Pictures: Graham Uden