Turbine Services

Our clients were an American manufacturer of gas turbines who had a requirement to move premises from their existing, standard cellular offices. Due to a variety of circumstances their preferred premises were a shell building split into two halves separated by an atrium.

They required a welcoming, unified, inspirational design to accommodate their existing requirements but also allow room for expansion and sell themselves to visiting clients. After some investigation of their current working practices we split the design into two distinct uses - the 'working' side and the 'display' side.

The display side houses individual offices, breakout areas and a board room, all separated with glass partitions. A curved wall is also incoporated on the route to the boardroom to display their products. In effect, the staff, products and process are all on display to anyone visiting the premises. The 'working' side was problematic in that the perimeter walls had windows to ground level, preventing any form of perimter services.

The company worked in a series of 5 distinct groups, with part-time requirements for several staff members. We arranged the desks in
units of 4-5 in the centre of the space with services dropping in a cluster from the ceiling at each location. To give each unit its own identity, we created false turbine' blades' above each grouping, primarily to provide servicing and task lighting. Each unit also has
their own 'service' pod with images of the company products to identify them.