Brown University

Providence, RI

2003

32,000 sf

Goals

• Create effective new offices for Brown University's Computer and Information Technology (CIT) department.

Challenges

• Adapt unrenovated brick-and-beam warehouse construction for office use.
• Bring together multiple groups within the department that were unaccustomed to working adjacently, and unaccustomed to working in cubicle workstations.
• Define the departmental image, balancing professionalism and academia.

Design Response

• Created a "village" of closed offices and support spaces linked to workstation cubicles by wide aisles and gathering points along the way.
• Created "neighborhoods" through the use of walls and dropped soffits to keep the scale workable.
• Designed with clean, modern lines and forms, and used color to catch the eye, encourage movement, and orient the occupants.
• Developed workstations fully integrated into the architecture of space and color.

Contractor

A. Autiello Construction Co., Inc.

Consultants

Move Management, Inc.