The employees of the municipality were working at four locations. With a radical renovation of the back office, they are now all at the same spot. Proof was commissioned on the basis of her vision ‘the power of magnetism: enhancing knowledge sharing between 600 employees should be put central”.
The basis of the design is on the one hand an analysis of the strengths and challenges of the building. The elongated volume with its narrow construction depth and valuable east-west orientation is a strong starting point. The absence of interaction between the different building layers, the amount of entrances and the curvature of the building require special attention. By creating two large voids, making both facades tangible at every point in the plan and carefully positioning closed program elements, a new attractive starting point is created.
On the other hand, careful attention was paid to the course of a working day of various employees. The largest common denominators are spread over the 3 floors of the back office. Network café, learning center, lockers and meeting facilities are vertically spread throughout the building. By such, every employee unconsciously uses the entire building during a day, increasing exponentially the chance of encounter and synergy. Adjacent, the primary workplaces are provided. In a mix of focus desks, team spaces, touchdown zones, meeting facilities and spaces for agile work, the principles of Activity Based Working have been rolled out.