An office renovation and rebranding project for a 20-year-old local construction company.
While their current office presents a typical pragmatic approach on working space in Hong Kong, we wish to inject a sense of newness and uniqueness that distinguish them from their peers through materiality and colours.
The spatial organisation is simple and functional. One of the entrance doors leads to the bulk storage area, while the other, led by the company-blue painted glass doorway, enters into the reception area. Accompanying the reception is the dusty pink 'pavilion' that houses waiting area, meeting and conference rooms for guests and visitors. Slightly shielded off by the tinted glass from the visitor area is the main office space which is then softly divided into general and human resources departments by a central blue wood cabinet along the main entrance axis. Although the departments are separated due to the operational requirement, the location of a common pantry and copier machine, not to mention the large opening of the central cabinet, are communal nodes that bring the staffs together through casual basis. The directors' rooms are situated along the windows and partitioned by translucent glazings in order to maximize daylight filtering in the general office space.
Adopting the company's blue colour as main feature tone on the back-painted glass and dyed wood veneer along the central axis, while the dusty pink painted 'pavilion' features the visitor area. Strips of full height cabinets of anodized aluminium finishes topped with circular bronze handles are lined along the long walls of the office. Long ceiling stripes and linear lighting tubes connect and complete the 3 originally separated areas, reception, general and HR departments, as a whole.
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