ALLEGRO

Project Info

Project Description

We would like to invite you to see our new supply of office furniture for the project Allegro – homelike office

This project was awarded the best commercial space in Poland in 2017 – the Prime Property Prize 2017 statuette.
In this category are awarded commercial spaces (offices, retail spaces, hotels and residential spaces) for the best design, innovative architectural and design solutions, original and functional equipment, modern technologies.

Home is a place where we return to. It gives us positive feelings, making us want to spend our time there. It is a place where we perform our daily duties, but first of all it’s where we relax. We share it with our loved ones, and is a place where we invite our friends to.

While an office connotes with a cold, uninviting space. It’s a labyrinth of long corridors with no natural lighting, bland offices with unpleasant fluorescent light and noise, and co-workers hidden behind closed doors. Is this the kind of place where we enjoy working? Is this the kind of place we want to return to?

What if the office could look and feel more like home? What if we use different finish materials, more wood, warm colors, and place a greater number of plants?

What if meetings could take place in spaces similar to living rooms instead of boring conference rooms? Could a creative meeting zone look more like a workshop? Are there any obstacles to designing the common space like the well known areas at home such as kitchen and living room?

The architects from Workplace Solutions had asked themselves all of these questions by designing a brand new Allegro Group headquarter. They managed to create a place where people like to return. A space that helps to build new relationships. An environment where you will find the room to execute your everyday task with pleasure. A diversified, mobile, and creative melting pot.

The new Allegro office located in the Q22 building is prepared to accommodate 450 people on 3 floors. For the 5,500 sq.m. space, Workplace architects designed a tailored office environment for multi-faceted working place.

The 11th and 12th floors are where agile project teams works. These two floors are constructed form a collage of small offices (by the windows) and corresponding to the bigger system of common space. For each one of the so-called “mini offices”, they had incorporated three zones: desks, glass rooms designed for focused work and video chats for up to 3 people, and a creative space for brainstorming.

The 13th floor opens with a front desk reminiscent of a green dooryard. When you walk left, you enter into the house. Continuing past the hallway of meeting rooms and the enfilade of armchairs to finally reach the central zone of the floor – the winter garden. Outside, in a networking area, you will be able to sit on a carpet beating rack and enjoy casual conversations with your co-workers.

Main design assumptions:

  • Flexible and functional space which enables realization of a wide range of tasks, e.g. focused work, creative work, formal meetings, ad-hoc meetings;
  • A wide array of zones that encourage informal meetings, relationship building and knowledge exchange;
  • A social networking space which is large, common for the whole company, multifunctional, and provides the opportunity to have town-hall meetings;
  • A management board zone that is free from separate offices, teamwork and shared bench-type table;

Area: ca. 5,500 sq. m.

Number of workers: 450

Floors: 3

Location: Q22 building in Warsaw, Jana Pawla avenue 22

Work specification: diversified, from administrative functions to creative work.

Percentage of surface dedicated to individual work (desks): 58%

Percentage of support surface (meetings, social, other): 42%

Workplace is an architectural studio specializing in holistic designing of the working environment. Its unique approach is based on systematic research and design competencies in the fields of architecture, space planning and wayfinding with the use of the latest technological solutions (both IT and AV) and optimal development of green spaces.

Workplace – the team responsible for the Allegro project:

Bogusz Parzyszek – CEO | Founder

Dominika Zielińska – Head of Architecture | Managing Partner

Marzena Bednarczyk – Senior Architect

Natalia Leszczyńska – Architect

Igor Białoruski – Architect

Daniel Dziczek – Architect

Damian Bieniek, Anna Rzeźnik, Kasper Skirgajłło-Krajewski – Space Branding and Wayfinding

Adam Grzesik – photographer