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Kendall Square Workplace
Kendall Square Workplace
Cambridge, MA, United States
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Other Projects by Merge Architects
Kendall Square Workplace
Cambridge, MA, United States
Tasked with bringing spatial variety but conceptual cohesion to the renovation of over 60,000 square feet of the New England headquarters of a global technology company, Merge adapted the tradition of office-as-landscape with a definitively local emphasis.
Informed by the mid 20th century strategy of bürolandschaft – in which the office is analogous to an ecology – as well as contemporary concepts of biophilia and mediated environments, each of the seven floors was understood as a thematic biome. Stacked in section and varying in program, collaborative spaces occupy a gorge, open offices are found amidst a forest, and dining facilities embody a mountain peak (fittingly, the top floor).
Working with and around the building’s elevator core and waffle slab structure, landscape references – from organic circulation paths to abstracted graphics – and natural elements – from raw wood to live plants – were incorporated to actualize and advance the hybrid biological/ technological environments perhaps envisioned by cybernetic theorists and computer scientists.
Key collaborative and connective spaces throughout represent moments of intensive craft. Perforated metal mesh creates constellations over a kitchen counter then spins out to screen casual meeting spaces. Corridors are clad in CNC-cut plywood panels, their leafy fractal patterns revealing the softness of acoustic felt beyond. Solo seats and group nooks, like color-saturated caverns, are subtracted from the solidity of the concrete core. Cross-laminated timber panels are assembled into a stair linking a meeting room mezzanine to a cafe below. At high altitude, in the summit dining space, natural allusions slip into the surreal with a dreamy graphics sequence that melds into cloud-like overhead installations, climbing-cable veiled booths, and a tent-sheltered tea station.
The result is a workplace both cutting edge and comfortable, novel and familiar, productive and social.
Informed by the mid 20th century strategy of bürolandschaft – in which the office is analogous to an ecology – as well as contemporary concepts of biophilia and mediated environments, each of the seven floors was understood as a thematic biome. Stacked in section and varying in program, collaborative spaces occupy a gorge, open offices are found amidst a forest, and dining facilities embody a mountain peak (fittingly, the top floor).
Working with and around the building’s elevator core and waffle slab structure, landscape references – from organic circulation paths to abstracted graphics – and natural elements – from raw wood to live plants – were incorporated to actualize and advance the hybrid biological/ technological environments perhaps envisioned by cybernetic theorists and computer scientists.
Key collaborative and connective spaces throughout represent moments of intensive craft. Perforated metal mesh creates constellations over a kitchen counter then spins out to screen casual meeting spaces. Corridors are clad in CNC-cut plywood panels, their leafy fractal patterns revealing the softness of acoustic felt beyond. Solo seats and group nooks, like color-saturated caverns, are subtracted from the solidity of the concrete core. Cross-laminated timber panels are assembled into a stair linking a meeting room mezzanine to a cafe below. At high altitude, in the summit dining space, natural allusions slip into the surreal with a dreamy graphics sequence that melds into cloud-like overhead installations, climbing-cable veiled booths, and a tent-sheltered tea station.
The result is a workplace both cutting edge and comfortable, novel and familiar, productive and social.
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