The editor who is working hard in OA looks around and actually feels very happy. After all, in a big office, if you don’t have any privacy, you may be stared at even if you pick up a small thing. If you look at it, you will feel so uncomfortable!
But the company I want to introduce today, The Barbarian Group, is an advertising company specializing in interactive marketing. It is headquartered in New York. At the end of 2013, it just took over because of the new CEO, and some people from Boston. The employees moved to the New York headquarters, so they invited Clive Wilkinson Architects, who also successfully built Googles Silicon Valley headquarters, to launch an "egg carton revolution" in an area of ??about 120 square meters. As for why it is called an egg carton by the editor? Ha~ I’ll explain it later!
Not to mention that this project not only won the recognition of the Inside World Festival of Interiors Award 2014, the designer Wilkinson said in an interview: "Megalomaniacal ambition was the main driver", which means an unprecedented arrogant and powerful ambition is The main design motivation that inspired him was a 330-meter-long "super-table" across the flat floor.
Using 870 pieces of unique rubber sheets, the outer layer is first coated with metallic white baking paint, and then goes through a 30-hour melting process to create a continuous table body with a seamless surface. The scope also extends to the outer area, with a curved shape like an egg carton to screen out the space for conference rooms, lounges or storage areas.
What’s even more special is that high-level employees and lower-level employees sit side by side. This is also the concept of electrical wire connection mentioned by designer Wilkinson. He mentioned that as information technology becomes more and more popular, Especially in this kind of e-commerce company, everyone actually has a laptop or other tools that can work anywhere, so the traditional OA office foundation has gradually disappeared, and designers also want to make the "desk", which originally belonged to The items that play a supporting role are elevated to the position of the protagonist. With the continuous, high or low curve design, the table itself is a design subject, just as the structure of the modern workforce is also changing rapidly, but this seemingly "avant-garde" is made in advance. The design was first put into the concept of this design.
Perhaps just like one of the corporate spirits mentioned by The Barbarian Group, we hope that employees can make a clever connection between customers and the company. In addition to condensing the centripetal force between employees, it may also make customers feel a sense of unity. The concept of community increases the power of connection.
