Category
Workplace

Subcategories
N/A

Location
Hamilton, NJ

Project Completion
2018

Project Size
34,425

Services
Architectural & Interior Design

A growing company that provides solutions for pharmaceutical trials recognized the need for a larger workplace, to better represent its brand and improve employee satisfaction. The company opted for the upper floor of the historic building they were already in, expanding into a 35,000-square-foot industrial space that offered exposed brick, and access to natural light through perimeter windows and overhead clerestory light monitors.
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The design incorporates adaptive reuse principles, making use of the building’s strengths while emphasizing its original character (as a former industrial design studio for American Standard Plumbing).

Within the double-height open office space, the architects inserted a mezzanine structure with the look of a shipping container, composed of acrylic-coated corrugated aluminum walls.

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Beneath the mezzanine is quiet office space; above is a “rooftop” collaborative area lit by LED pendants with acoustical fins. A bleacher-style seating grandstand provides access to this “upper deck” and serves as seating for office-wide meetings held in a “town square” zone, including a kitchenette and gathering space with lounge seating.

The company’s logo inspired the color palette of the brand-conscious design, which also appears in art film on the glass wall separating reception from the work zones – a feature introduced to hint at the activity beyond.

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