The large scale of the building is moderated by first punctuating the long Manufacturing component with the three-story Office component. These components are further articulated with framed expanses of glass curtain wall. The balance of the facade takes a modular approach using precast concrete panels with a large repeating window.

To control solar heat gain, the curtain wall incorporates horizontal and vertical shading devices – depending on orientation. Flourishes of color are added on the metal framing of the glass and main entry canopies. The materials palette is very simple, with precast concrete, pre-finished metal panels, pre-finished aluminum and glass curtain wall and pre-finished aluminum and glass window units.

Immediately upon entry, the lobby reflects Belimo’s commitment to the customer, with a well-appointed, two-story customer lounge space and interactive product display area.

Brand colors are strategically integrated, both inside and out, through the project palette and material selections. Bright white surfaces are combined with medium value, small pattern gray flooring, and natural maple veneers to focus the eye on accents of Belimo’s orange and blue color scheme.

The bright orange actuators can be viewed in intentionally carved out ceiling plenum vignettes throughout the three stories. Although the open office environment is not new to this company, it is achieved without the traditional tall panel systems. The low profile office furniture prevents isolation and allows for ease of communication, collaboration, and teaming. Although individual work areas are assigned, the workplace design strategy was to provide options and choices of work settings for team-based and heads down work. Huddle rooms, cafes, and soft seating areas invite staff to gather informally or focus on task.

The warehouse space contains a “super-flat floor” designed to allow high lift fork trucks to drive at high speeds, while fully extended up 35’ within narrow aisles.

The new headquarters for Califia Farms offers a welcoming café bar and lounge, with a tinplated metal silhouette of the company’s distinct and award-winning product design, for staff and guests to come together.

Award winning branding is integrated into the office design through office room trim and carpet patterns.

Located in the Arts District of Los Angeles, the new office of Califia Farms is a block from the company’s original inception point. Vital indoor-outdoor connections, branding elements and office operations are visible from the street while roll-up garage doors open out to a patio to extend the office atmosphere into downtown LA’s streetscape.

Creating new avenues for in-house operations, the office café is bordered by generous meeting rooms, the café bar and tasting room, and a sizable screen that pilots the company’s digital media.

A multi-functional tasting kitchen serves as R&D space for product testing and conferencing with manufacturing facilities, yet also offers team building opportunities for all to prepare meals together.

Contrasting bold brand colors with natural materials, banquette niches offer comfortable heads-down spaces for staff.

The ebullience of the café bar and lounge beams through double pane glass walls of adjacent meeting rooms.

Floor to ceiling glass allows light to fill corridors and transparent collaborative space and labs.

Glass-enclosed incubator labs are flexible and transparent, enhancing connectivity, while providing daylight and views throughout.

The Medical Innovation and Novel Discovery Center on the third floor has a centralized cafe space with views to the city.

A flexible “Theater of the Mind” is able to host Ted Talks and multi-media presentations.

Collaboration areas and private “pods” are available to start ups and individuals for short-term rental.

The overarching design concept for the space is a transition into styled modern elegance with edgy touches. Simplicity, wonder, and drama unfolds in the elevator lobby.

Beyond, a largely tone on tone, warm palette with occasional bold contrasts. Elegant and sophisticated in its simplicity, functionality, and tailored detail. A palette of typical spaces and signature destinations that are stately modern, contemporary, and interpretive of formal tradition, yet bespoke.

The new workplace includes transparent design elements throughout, for visual access into offices, guest coffee bar, and meeting rooms.

The large multi-purpose room, with an adjacent catering kitchen and abundant daylight and views, transitions easily between instructional training and hospitality event functions via two large double doors opening into the office reception area and the guest coffee bar.

An employee café designed to be a destination work space, helping to build a more inclusive work environment, facilitate knowledge sharing, and an inspired culture.

The open plan design features typical size support staff workstations. The perimeter of the floor plate was planned as a move to the single standard office footprint of 150-SF, shows Murtha Cullina’s novel democratic approach to space regardless of title or tenure between levels of partners and associates.

Floor Plan Before

First Floor Plan After :

The building structure presented natural breaks in the overall floor plate identified as zones. The design clusters formal conference rooms in the core along with other hard wall program components. Open work settings are focused along the perimeter to take full advantage of daylight and views. Informal collaborative areas are developed along the building concourse, naturally lit by skylights, offering a variety of settings including a café on the south side of both floors.

Second Floor Plan After :

Neighborhoods or hubs are assigned for each of the business units occupying the building. The hubs include any specialty requirements for the business units such as files, reference materials and areas for administrative staff (the only colleagues with assigned space in the building). Parking spaces for mobile file pedestals, to be assigned to each colleague, were planned to park along the perimeter. The overall design accommodates 1598 staff in 1191 individual work settings, provides 666 informal collaborative seats and 676 formal collaborative seats for a total of 2450 choices in work settings.

The design of Sanofi’s physical space aligns with Sanofi’s image and brand. The finish materials within the laboratories were selected for durability and safety with the ability to be obtained in the color palette reflective of the overall branding scheme in the project. Splashes of accent colors on walls and the introduction of dropped GWB ceiling bands recall the color schemes within the open office areas supporting the cultural shift to transform Sanofi’s work experience and visually link the campus together.

The finishes within the building all focus on Sanofi’s brand and image with boldly colored accent walls and ceilings. Flooring patterns with accent bands also activate the spaces. More efficient desk layouts allow for more collaborative space with every station adjustable, accommodating ergonomic preferences and promoting the health and well-being of each worker.

The entire color palette within the building is based on Sanofi’s brand with purple, green and tan accents of products, furniture and prominently displayed graphic messages highlighting the company’s logo, origins, mission, culture, achievements, and future.

The walls have come down and instead of the traditional conference room and office cubicles, the new spaces within the office are communal multi-purpose spaces designed to stimulate conversation, cooperation, and the inspiration of new ideas.

This new workplace environment provides a variety of team spaces, both enclosed and open, with writeable back-painted glass wall surfaces and technologically advanced flat panel screens with videoconferencing capabilities encouraging group work.