exec suite
In a new, fully-remote future, this company’s "belong anywhere" ethos welcomes a creative, yet critical challenge into how we should rethink the office. The Executive Suite is a redesign of their San Francisco leadership experience under these new, worldly parameters. Flipping the "home studio", this redesign provides a transient "studio home" and institutes a creative workshop space for their distributed executives.
Design Architect: Rapt Studio
6,000sf
designer
unbuilt, interiors, workplace, amenity
THE FACTORY 2.0
Inspired by Andy Warhol's creative space The Factory, the Executive Suite evolved into a working, art studio space, steering away from the Californian-Japandi style that proliferates Silicon Valley. The space's program provides zones of work to foster creative needs without compromising utility needs.
COLLECTED, NOT CURATED
The space began with three columns of intent: personal, imperfect, and dynamic. The studio needs to feel lived-in, not curated. It needs to feel vulnerable, not polished. This fine balance established the guardrails for the design, between messy creative work and precise leadership tasks.
HUMAN FIRST
The design was a touchpoints-led process: people first, architecture second. A conference table topped with marmoleum to quietly place objects, intuitive temperature controls, flexible millwork to hide unused monitors. Strategic user-journey study was utilized to understand where these important moments occur and how to transpose them into the greater design.
