Stellan Offices – Adelaide
Spaceful’s Stellan Offices in Adelaide artfully blends professionalism with comfort, reflecting the firm’s values of collaboration and transparency in a thoughtfully designed workspace tailored for growth and client engagement.
Stellan set out to create a workplace environment that reflected its values of enduring collaboration, transparency, and high-touch personal service. Spaceful was engaged to design and deliver a new Adelaide workspace that could support the firm’s next phase of growth while bringing its rebrand into the physical environment. The result balances professionalism with comfort, creating a workplace that feels considered, personal and grounded in the intent behind Stellan’s offering.
Key challenges included:
–Growth pressure: The previous workplace no longer matched the needs of a growing firm and had limited capacity to adapt as the business evolved.
–Brand evolution: As Stellan’s rebrand progressed alongside the workplace move, the existing space no longer aligned with the firm’s renewed identity, client experience or market position.
–Limited variety: The existing space lacked the range of settings needed for collaboration, focus work and private client conversations.
–Technology: The workplace needed to support advanced technology across every corner of the office, giving everyone on the team seamless access while maintaining privacy, security and room to scale.
Discover
The discovery phase focused on translating Stellan’s values and service model into a practical workplace brief that could support adaptability, client trust and a more considered day-to-day experience. This meant defining how the new office footprint, furnishings, and capabilities needed to express the Stellan brand from the moment clients and employees arrive.
Key priorities included:
–Adaptable planning: Creating a workplace layout that supports the current team while remaining flexible enough to evolve with the business.
-Spatial variety: Providing the right mix of open collaboration, focused work, private conversations and client meetings.
–Client experience: Creating a calm, grounded environment that feels personal and reassuring, reflecting Stellan’s relationship-led approach to clients.
–Brand expression: Expressing a more mature, future-focused firm, while translating honesty, transparency and bespoke service into the workplace.
Design
The design concept was informed by Stellan’s brand identity and the close partnership between client and adviser. This became the basis for the idea of ‘The Ridge’, a concept used to guide planning and experience and create a workplace that invites people to linger, giving clients and employees the sense that something honest, considered and deeply personal is at play at Stellan.
Deliver
Spaceful provided both design and delivery services for the Adelaide workplace, carrying the project from concept through to completion while carefully navigating the constraints of an older building tenancy.
Key outcomes included:
–Building response: The tenancy was transformed within the constraints of an older building, requiring careful planning and close coordination.
–Programme management: The project was delivered under a tightly managed programme, with clear sequencing, early planning and ongoing stakeholder
–Integrated commercial solution: Landlord incentives were structured to combine make-good and new fit-out works into one integrated delivery solution.
–Incentive-funded fit-out: The workplace was delivered through the building’s incentive package, allowing Stellan to complete the project without direct fit-out capital expenditure.
–Same-level coordination: The project required close coordination with another fit-out contractor working on the same level, ensuring works were carefully planned and sequenced to avoid disruption and maintain progress.
Design: Spaceful
Photography: Matthew Lynch
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