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Project Narrative
Typical Experience Center:
The CLIENT Experience Centers are labs that can be tailored to the needs of a business—use real-time simulations and advanced technology to help employees navigate challenges before they reach the customer. The spaces are fungible and can morph into what is the right space for each team at the right time. Using a thoughtful combination of technology and design, these spaces enable teams to quickly move ideas from vision to reality. Current trends tend to react to ever changing technology, while the CLIENT Experience Center recalibrates based on human intervention. The space is meant to interpret the human interaction of design thinking and suggestively guide activity to human based analog activity.
The offices also encourage employees to find a workspace that suits their needs on any given day by employing open seating plans and social spaces. While offices with open-concept floorplans have become increasingly popular, some studies show they can be difficult to navigate for introverts and can hamper concentration. Truly productive workspaces pair “quiet zones” designed for privacy and focus with open spaces that foster collaboration. These choices empower employees to work in whatever space is most productive for them.

Project Narrative: SFO
What would be the mission and purpose of the work environment if we could work from anywhere? A desire to embolden the connection to the community and celebrate the eclectic diversity of San Francisco became the foundation for the design. Our team leveraged the workplace as the organizational anchor to culture, growth and technology – resulting in an approachable, comfortable, active and accessible environment.
Creating a work environment that reflected the city’s vibrancy while serving as a destination for connection took on new meaning in a post-pandemic world. It required a new intention and deliberation than afforded in the past. The new design embraced this complexity — including the crucial impact strong communities like this organization and the residents of this region have at large on our health and well-being and the world around us.
City streets and social corridors became the design metaphor in the space, mirroring the focal point of human activity in urban centers.
City streets and social corridors became the design metaphor in the space, mirroring the focal point of human activity in urban centers. Citizens interact with the urban environment through its streetscape. The linkage to those interactions is essential to human connection and the establishment of a community.
The designed Neighborhoods and Front Porches in the space empower a dynamic network of connections and relationships that influence the user experience. This inviting workplace strengthens the interactions they have with one another and inspires their work. These thoughtfully designed destinations are customizable and flexible, offering an opportunity to continuously “hack” the space for personal preference and represent just two unique space types that define a genuinely authentic and mission-driven design expression.