Following the global Covid-19 pandemic, Kering wanted to review its working practices and engaged Unispace to trial new ways of working within designated trial areas of their historic headquarters in the French capital. Following a period of unprecedented growth and confronted by a pivotal obstacle in their sixty year journey, Kering was intent upon trying something new in order to respond to a forever altered landscape, in which the perception of what it means to go to work has shifted.
This project – a pilot space - would trial new ways of working within a well-established, largely traditional (from an approach to work perspective) organisation. With a relatively compact floor plan, measuring 753 sqm, in a space of an L-shape configuration, the completed workplace would house 62 of Kering’s employees and provide the designers at Unispace with the challenge of creating an innovative, contemporary and diverse, yet fundamentally elegant and functional space.