Iron Interior · 2021
Academy Offices
by Ruba Tarazi
- A' Design Award 2021 in Interior
- CLIENT: Architect Ruba Tarazi Office
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 9,470
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About Academy Offices
Academy is an office interior designed for daily work, company events and training sessions. The entrance is lit by a hexagonal lighting fixture that reflects the chemistry background of the company. Glass partitions filled with gelatin capsules provide privacy and refer to the pharmaceutical industry. Casual seating areas, a cafe, a library and meeting rooms with graphics, interactive screens and information diagrams create an educational atmosphere. Warm wood, leather seats and dark blue walls complete the 650 square metre space, arranged on three equal floors.
About the A' Design Award
Academy Offices is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations. Iron winners demonstrate great skill, high specialization, expert understanding, and creative capacity of their creators. Academy Offices is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished creation that is practical and innovative. This Iron A' Design Award-winning design integrates industry best practices and has competent technical characteristics linked with know-how and talent. Academy Offices is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.
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- Unique Properties
- An ergonomic yet educational and inspiring setting to serve company events and offices. The entrance is lit by hexagonal lighting fixture, designed to reflect the chemistry background of the company, as well as various glass partitions filled with gelatin capsules. To create an educational friendly atmosphere we introduced casual seating areas, a cafe and meeting rooms with graphics narrating the company story, multimedia interactive screens, a library, and information diagrams.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The project's total area is 650 metre square.
Three equal floors 216.6 metres square each. - Tags
- Architecture, Interior, Office, Meeting rooms, Cafeteria, Lobby, Middle east, Jordan, design, architectrubatarazi
- Production Technology
- The floating hexagonal formation of solid wooden frames and lights together with the exposed metallic ventilation system at the entrance represents the industrial pharmaceutical business of the company. The mixture of warm natural wood, leather seats, glass partitions and textile curtains gave the space a genuine look while the dark blue color walls and featured doors represent again knowledge and learning.
- Design Challenge
- The main problem was the tight deadline that coincided with the company re-branding activities which created many constrains that were resolved by customizing many items on site. Also the onsite construction of the glass partitions with the capsules was challenging to produce consistent and void free aesthetic partitions.
- Research
- We studied employees needs, spending time at the company to come up with valuable working methods that serves future growth as well as the ethical culture in the company. Selecting suitable quotes and posters to represent each meeting room as one of the company branches across the world was an eye opener to users, while filling the glass partitions with gelatin capsules to achieve privacy in some spaces add an elegant charm to the offices and emphasis the pharmaceutical industry.
- Inspiration
- Inspired by the late founder words:
"Education is not a philosophy it's our policy."
We approached the project by introducing educational design concepts to create a multidisciplinary office and meeting space, taking the company history and growth and geographical reach mixed with the family culture to reflect on this simple yet modern and friendly open space design. - Project Duration
- The project started in May 2018 and finished in October 2018 in Amman Jordan.
- Operation Flow
- Dynamic space allows employees to experience new concepts of work through learning in a positive and creative atmosphere and sense of belonging. A variety of working setups were introduced; benches, high desks, traditional desks, casual seating areas, interactive screens altogether to encourage performance in a productive and creative way. The space is used also to hold events, seminars and training sessions.
- Image Credits
- Image #1: Photographer Architect Ruba Tarazi, Variations, 2018.
Image #2: Photographer Architect Ruba Tarazi, Variations, 2018.
Image #3: Photographer Architect Ruba Tarazi, Variations, 2018.
Image #4: Photographer Architect Ruba Tarazi, Variations, 2018.
Image #5: Photographer Architect Ruba Tarazi, Variations, 2018.
