Gold Interior Space and Exhibition Design · 2020
Noble Energy Israel Offices
- A' Design Award 2020 Gold Winner in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Awarded April 15, 2020
- CLIENT: Noble Enery
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About Noble Energy Israel Offices
Noble Energy Israel is an office interior spread over eight floors and 13,000 square meters in Herzliya, Israel. The design is inspired by a gas platform. Corridor ceilings are painted deep blue to suggest the sea, with galvanized pipes and suspended mesh ceilings below. Work rooms are placed along the perimeter windows in two sizes, a short module and a long module. Each floor is marked by one color applied to the floor, walls and ceiling of its kitchenette and lounge, which aids orientation. Recycled platform parts were reused as planters, wall cladding and counter tops.
Michael Setter's Noble Energy Israel Offices exemplifies the contemporary evolution of workplace design wherein the traditional boundaries between corporate efficiency and domestic comfort have become productively blurred, creating environments that acknowledge the whole human being rather than merely the productive worker. This interior demonstrates a sophisticated understanding of how material choices, chromatic decisions, and spatial organization collectively influence occupant experience and organizational culture. The pervasive aquamarine palette, ranging from the painted walls to the polished floor surfaces, establishes a coherent environmental identity while the warm wood tones of the media unit and ceiling elements introduce thermal contrast that prevents the cool palette from becoming clinical or uninviting. The decision to expose rather than conceal mechanical systems represents a philosophical stance regarding transparency and authenticity that has become characteristic of progressive workplace environments, suggesting an organizational culture that values openness and honest communication. The carefully curated shelving display surrounding the media screen transforms a functional technology integration point into an opportunity for cultural expression, the potted plants and decorative objects personalizing what might otherwise read as purely corporate infrastructure. The coral shell chairs function as chromatic punctuation marks within the composition, their warm hue and organic silhouette providing visual relief and suggesting that comfort and individual expression remain valued within the professional context. The layered screens that partially enclose the lounge zone create what might be understood as a spatial threshold, marking transition between more public circulation areas and the semi-private retreat of the seating arrangement without imposing rigid boundaries. This approach to spatial definition reflects contemporary understanding that effective workplaces require varied zones supporting different activities and social configurations. The viewer might consider how such environments shape daily experience for their occupants, and what messages about organizational values are communicated through these material and spatial choices.
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- Unique Properties
- The Architecture of all the floors is narrow and long. The employees' rooms were located along the perimeter windows, in order to avoid working rooms without windows.
Also, only two modules were assigned to the size of the rooms: a short room and a long room in order create change to the elongated shaped corridor.
Furthermor, in order to better the orientation in the offices, each floor was characterized by a specific color. This color meets the person walking out of the elevator lobby into a small kitchenette and a lounge area. They were designed as a color block: floor, walls and ceiling, in the same color. - Dimensions & Packaging
- The offices of Noble Energy are located in Herzliya, Israel. They spread over 8 floors and 13,000 square meters.
Main Lobby on the ground floor, 2nd floor - meeting rooms and guest floor, floors 3-8 are offices floors. - Tags
- offices, herzliya offices, office design, recycle, Noble Energy, natural gas, office space, interior design
- Production Technology
- As part of the principle of sustainable design, a great deal of emphasis was placed on the use of recycled materials, mainly reuse of platform scraps. Pipe parts were converted into potted plants, used timer logs were used for wall cladding, counter tops and bar tables, broken and used boxes were cut and reassembled and used for storage and display. Beyond the fact that the project is a LEED GOLD candidate, the use of Noble's materials assimilates the company's DNA in its own design.
- Design Challenge
- Our main challenge was the architecture of the building that created long and narrow floors. In order to create interest while walking through the hallways we planned only two modules of rooms: a short room and a long room and to give attenton to the long core walls by various elements of storage, seating areas and special made art work.
Also, in order to answer Noble Energy's desire to have uniqe offices the different artists used elements from the gas drilling: subsea layers, seabed, pipes and pipe parts taken from drilling residues, pipe wall and valves that simulates the platform, chains and shackles - Project Duration
- The project design started in February 2018. Execution works started in January 2019 in Herzliya, and offices were delivered in July 2019.
- Operation Flow
- Although employees are working in enclosed rooms, the new office design encourages them to meet in many different meeting points in the public spaces, like cafeterias, collaboration areas and more.
In addition, the public stairwell was designed to encourage employees to use them. Easy way finding is implemented by caracterizing each floor with a different color. - Research
- The Research objective was to learn and understand the company's corporate culture, spirit and essence.
The first action was a visit to an active gas platform in order to understand the complex technology involved in the drilling process and the importance of safety as an integral part of Noble Energy's corporate culture. We conducted many meetings with Noble Energy staff and understood that our aim is to plan and design offices distinctive to Noble Energy. The management repeatedy advised us that the employees are at the center. Every employee, from junior to senior, need to receive the highest level of work environment. - Inspiration
- The main inspiration for the design was the gas platform. it's geometry, its materiality and color scheme, and the feeling one has standing on it.
In effect, the concept was created for the exposed ceilings of the project.
All the ceilings were painted in a deep blue, simulating the sea, under them are galvanized pipes and below all suspended mesh ceilings that resemble the floor of the platform. The gaze created by looking up at the ceilings of the corridors, imitates what you see when looking down while standing on the platform. - Image Credits
- Image #1: by Amit Gosher, 2019
Image #2: by Amit Gosher, 2019
Image #3: by Amit Gosher, 2019
Image #4: by Amit Gosher, 2019
Image #5: by Amit Gosher, 2019
video: by Noble Energy - Patents
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