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Xplain Headquarters مقر الشركة by Helen Brasinika

Xplain Headquarters مقر الشركة by Helen Brasinika is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 جائزة A' Design Award الحديدية in تصميم الفضاءات الداخلية والمعارض Competition Category.


حديدالتصميم الداخلي· 2020

Xplain Headquarters مقر الشركة

by Helen Brasinika

Client: BllendDesignOffice

جائزة A' Design Award الحديدية Winner in التصميم الداخلي Category

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The Design

About Xplain Headquarters مقر الشركة

قدمت علامة تجارية للتسويق الرقمي تعمل في 100 دولة على مستوى العالم الموجز من أجل تحويل هيكل حالي مساحته 500 متر مربع إلى مركز من شأنه تمكين الإبداع والكفاءة، وفي الوقت نفسه يعكس ثقافة الشركة في جميع جوانب التنظيم المكاني. يجب أن يكون حل التصميم المقترح مبتكرًا ومثيرًا للتفكير وصعبًا وممتعًا. نتيجة التصميم تتبع منهجية اتخاذ قرار مستنيرة بحثيًا واتجاهات تصميم المكاتب التي تستهدف المساحات المفتوحة للسماح للفرق بالتفاعل ضمن المحفزات الإبداعية والألوان الغريبة والتنوع النسيجي.

The Recognition

About the جائزة A' Design Award الحديدية

Xplain Headquarters مقر الشركة هو فائز بجائزة A' Design Award الحديدية، وهي تقدير مرموق يُمنح للتصاميم الجيدة التي تلبّي المتطلبات المهنية والصناعية المنتظرة من الإبداعات حسنة التصميم. ويُظهر الفائزون بالحديدية مهارة كبيرة وتخصصًا عاليًا وفهمًا خبيرًا وقدرة إبداعية لدى صنّاعهم. ويُتوقع أن يكون Xplain Headquarters مقر الشركة إبداعًا عالي التقدير ومحل إعجاب وحب، عمليًا ومبتكرًا. وهذا التصميم الفائز بجائزة A' Design Award الحديدية يدمج أفضل ممارسات القطاع، وله خصائص تقنية كفؤة ترتبط بالدراية والموهبة. ويحظى Xplain Headquarters مقر الشركة بالاحترام لدقته، وقد صُمّم لتقديم تحسينات لجودة الحياة تساعد على جعل العالم مكانًا أفضل.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties
Shaping the future of marketing by revolutionising the way marketers integrate brands into peoples lives, is the vision provided among key factors in daily operation, service standards and brand management in order to integrate them organically in the final design concept. The deliverable was to translate the vision of an artificial intelligence company with global clientele into a 500 sm spatial design, by overcoming location and the limitation of an existing building structure in order to motivate the teamwork to adjust operating in a more open and casual way.
Dimensions & Packaging
500 square meters expanding into four levels of an existing building structure. It had to be adapted in order to accomodate the functionalities of an office environment that has to be inspiring, thought motivating, stimulating in a way that data analysts and marketers are prompted to think out of the box, and bring to the foreground the childish nature that dwelves inside every professional without risking productivity and effectiveness.
Tags
Office, Workplace, Motivation, Challenging, Urban, Cheerful, Digital, Global, Marketing, Innovative, Consumer
Production Technology
Antigraffiti film technology, 3d printers, CNC machines, Ultra-durable and sustainable powder coating for metal surfaces. Custom wallpaper themes, environmental graphics , semi-transparent glass dividers, sound absorbing materials, led lighting and human centric lighting design. Colourful films cover the glass dividers creating an interesting interplay of semi transparency and the illusion of cityscapes. All the bathroom, desk accessories and utilities were custom designed and 3D printed. On the ground level there is a Manhattan aerial view 3D printed, while the element of different time zones and the absence of geographic barriers is introduced using two clocks on the first floor.
Design Challenge
Xplain operates globally, providing services in digital marketing and data analysis. The challenge was to meet tight timeframes, in data collection and analysis of the brand culture with a view to incorporating it organically into spatial design. For a brand that is customer and employee centered operating globally, has been key point to create a mutually challenging, innovative and joyful environment for all the stakeholders.
The fact also that the building was initially constructed to meet different needs, posed a quite difficult aspect since minimal alterations had to account for maximum efficiency and adaptation to different personalities. Research based on informal and formal data collection methods proved invaluable in order to meet the deliverables in terms of time, space and performamce measurements.
Research
Research in workplace environments and spatial design
trends were analysed in order to be able to define the contemporary
needs, ergonomics and aesthetics of a brand that follows a more contemporary approach in terms of advertising, marketing and social media presence. Teamwork, creativity, transparency, sharing and bonding are some of the key concepts revealed during the data collection semi-guided interviews with the co-founders and key position members of the brand.
Inspiration
The workplace environment has undergone rapid transformation. Without following the corporate bureaucratic model of the city as a working mechanism, or the city as a model without structure the proposal was inspired by workplaces that challenge the contemporary personality and become motivational for global team players.
Project Duration
January to September 2018, from research briefs and concept design to project realization.
Operation Flow
In a typical city model, structural steel and concrete have been for years the main building materials that construct architectural entities. Raw data, the internet of things and information technology has led to different urban theories.
A hypothesis informs the initial design concept, what if our
buildings were not constructed with structural steel and concrete but raw data, what would happen in a world that approaches everything from a different point of view.
Anti graffiti films were used to turn the walls to boards for note taking. The basement is informed by game theories in order to provide a relaxed and cozy atmosphere. A city scape is transformed at nighttime unleashing creativity, expressed by the custom graffiti wallpaper on 6-meter atrium wall. Concrete greys, green foliage and sky blues, alternate in layers in order to create different zones of working and orientation, while breaking the uniformity of spatial organization when applied to different ribbons extending from floor, wall to ceiling. Raw data and social media inform urban design for livable cities, that is the reason containers typologies were used to introduce the associations of global transportation. The high atrium is dominated by the X shaped lighting fixture, a 2.4 meter long aluminum box, using osram high flux led tape and Vecta stretch film to illuminate the atrium uniformly.
Team Members
BllendDesign & Research Office
Xplain Head and Area Managers
Image Credits
Louisa Nikolaidou Architectural Imaging

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