Confidential Global Management Firm Offices – Boston
OTJ Architects designed the Confidential Global Management Firm Offices in Boston to enhance collaborative agility and well-being, featuring a sculptural staircase that embodies the brand’s identity within a forward-thinking workplace.
Values-driven and focused on providing deep, lasting impact on their clients’ businesses, this global management consulting firm finds itself navigating the changing workplace landscape of the knowledge economy. To accommodate the merger of two local offices and better address industry-wide shifts in workday modalities, the client partnered with OTJ to deploy interior solutions that propel human, operational, and business objectives well into the future. OTJ leveraged a long-standing relationship with the client to arrive at concepts uniquely representative of the firm’s brand identity in a high-design impact, hybrid environment that empowers individuals to set the parameters of their own workday.
An agile visioning process allowed OTJ to develop an array of flexible work solutions that maximize real estate value, meet bespoke collaboration needs, and feature distinctive amenities. Interactive 3D modeling facilitated visualization, enhanced collaboration, and empowered our client to make more informed, confident decisions that balanced corporate standards and the desire for local design references.
The project’s design narrative hinges on a central, curvilinear staircase that connects three floors of work and amenity spaces while meeting exacting code and structural requirements. Inspired by the iconic image of a Boston lighthouse, this sculptural beacon features a custom chandelier that spans the workplace’s full three stories. Conveniently located beside the stairs on each level, amenity hubs offer unique services, such as a work café, barista bar, brewery, and speakeasy. Other amenities include a nursing suite, quiet rooms, a prayer room, and gender-neutral restrooms, all designed to enhance team member wellbeing. Work-zones are organized in interconnected neighborhoods, with open workstations, phone rooms and booths, small offices, huddle spaces, team rooms, and open collaboration spaces. Consumer collaboration is supported in a triad of spaces called “The Client Center”, which features: the “Experience” center, for face-to-face consultation; the “Learning” center, a large presentation space with three rows of seating; as well as a boardroom surrounded by breakout meeting spaces.
Oceanic blues, earthy browns, and warm sunset burgundy tones form distinct color schemes for work neighborhoods, while acoustical ceiling elements assist with wayfinding throughout the oversized floor plates. Moody, dark finishes, as well as concrete and smoked glass fronts, in turn, imbue the tech focused client center with a sleek and sophisticated quality. Many of our accessibility solutions, interpolated throughout the space, later served as a model in the client’s efforts to develop firmwide Universal Design standards. The project achieved LEED v4 Commercial Interiors Platinum and a two-star Fitwel certification.
Design: OTJ Architects
Photography: Trent Bell
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