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International Online Accountant's Offices

Third Year Project

As part of Design Studio: Work Places, we were tasked with the design of a new office space fore International Online Accountants in the Cork Distillers Bottling plant. This office space was to include: a variety of workstations, meeting rooms, adequate circulation and support spaces, as well as a cafe. 

Conceptual Approach

For the conceptual approach to this project, I first looked to the building for inspiration and took interest in the fenestration to the front of the building. I sketched the windows and began to develop the concept based on the shape and form of the fenestration. I then combined this approach with inspiration from the Dutch modernist art movement, De Stijl - also known as Neoplasticism . The movement was founded in Leidin in 1917. It was a reaction to WorldWar1, as well as the excessiveness of the art deco movement. De Stijl embraces an abstract, pared-down aesthetic centered in basic visual elements such as geometric forms and primary colours. 

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Design Approach

On the basement level there is a kitchen, cleaners store, sanitary facilities(male bathrooms and a male shower, female bathrooms and a female shower, and an accessible toilet), a storage facility for archived files with an area for photocopying, there are break out spaces near the archives so someone can work with the files without having to travel far.  

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On the ground floor there is a reception, boardroom, four meeting rooms, two audit managers offices, four assistant audit managers offices, I wanted to keep the meeting rooms and boardroom on the ground floor near reception so that visitors would not be intruding or disturbing the employees who are working (especially as the hot desking spaces are in an open plan area I wanted to give those employees as much privacy as possible). There is also a utilities managers office, bathrooms, and the café. There is a lobbied entrance to the café so that employees in the office can go to café without having to go outside, the lobby also enables both the café and accountants’ office can lock their own doors for security reasons.

 

The majority of the offices and work spaces are on the first floor. There are eight offices for the senior partners, as well as four work stations for their personal assistants, the managing directors office, a work station for their personal assistant, a hotdesking area for twenty people. 

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