OLX Bulgaria office headquarter Sofia / Bulgaria
Design: bureau XII
Office area: 310m2
Year of planning: 2016
Completion: September 2016
Photograph: Tsvetomir Gzhermanov
bureau XII was commissioned with the design of the new headquarter of OLX Bulgaria, a classified
platform dealing in 40 markets around the world. Located in the heart of the city center of Sofia, in
an ex printing house from the 1930’s, the new headquarter should offer a contemporary and
functional space for the local team of around 32 people. The design brief requires an open space
with maximal transparency, a room with 9 working desks for the Telesales department, a room with
3 working desks for the IT department, meeting room for 10 people with teleconference equipment
and a bright kitchen next to an existing south faced terrace. The client’s wish were to have beside the
good functional “office machine” an exciting and distinguishing style with mostly natural materials
and as much as possible customized solutions. One of the challenges in that project is the fact that in
the 30’s ex industrial building double floor is not foreseen. bureau XII evaluated possible scenarios
for the cabling of the working desks, and the most reasonable way proved the solution with cabling
in the open ceiling, avoiding the necessity of double floor and ramps or steps toward the evacuation
routes and building staircases. Industrial spiral pipes were used to conduct the cables from the ceiling
down to the working desks. bureau XII designed the office desks, made by plywood and steel, the
simple lighting solution and the custom “iceberg” soft seats placed in the relax zone in front of the
open air area. The overall design has the aim to provide a vivid space with balanced intervention in
the historical substance.
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