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.
