PENSON unveils design of L3 Google engineering HQ in Victoria
Global architecture and interior design agency PENSON has unveiled the design of the L3 Google engineering headquarters in Victoria, London.
Designed with clever workplace strategies, the new Google office has embraced a new idea called The COG, which is a quiet space with mobile phone jammers. The new headquarter offers a shrewd sliding-scale of areas ranging from spaces for total solitude, through to full-bore group collaboration.
Created as a modern and convenient workplace, the headquarter features fight-pods, huddles, makers workshop, route-masters bus complete with zebra crossing, fully height adjustable desks with intermediate shelves, and video conference rooms.
The Techstop has been designed as a fun place, where the recycling content of the project starts to emerge. All materials in the scheme are either fully recycled or have a high recycled content. Like the Google Super HQ in Covent Garden, the new headquarter also features various water-based finishes, which provides a high-level of practical durability.
The Deli at the new office features a combination of natural materials to complement the healthy food. The bread delivery trays are reused to clad walls while tables are made from recycled timbers, all of which provide a break from the more “techno” spaces that form the desking areas.
The desking areas receive extra height adjustability for full stand-working practices. Between rows of desks, bespoke shelving has been inserted to help screen desks at differing heights, whilst providing a huge linear length of shelving for personalised artefacts.
Lighter, yet more acoustic, Flight Pods have been developed to provide more fun internally with more white-board externally. The space also features a LED monitor for reporting important information to engineers on a constant basis. Providing multi-function space, these ergonomic, practical and flat pack rooms can be used for various purposes.
Emphasising on Google’s Red List of healthy ingredients in terms of building materials and finishes, each space is differently designed and is linked by some cool circulation routes that provide inherent opportunities for collaborating. Recycled seat belts and scaffold poles have been used to create “not-seen-before” details to economically design these routes.
An “exposé” theme runs through the spaces, where the workings of headquarter can be seen through glimpses of linings. This occurs to some table tops also, with little trinkets beneath to add a bit of zest to one’s video conference.
Featuring micro-kitchens, wide variant of meeting room sizes, clever space-planning and elegant interior design, the new Google headquarter has been designed as a comfortable as well as convenient workplace.
