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Project Overview
SafetyCulture is a unique global company that uses technology to save lives in the workplace. This ethical success story drives our design narrative, and focuses on respect, inclusion, technological innovation, collaboration and embodied carbon reduction across a dynamic vertical village across 9 floors. Wellbeing at work guides the design, breaking conventions as a hospitality precinct, rather than a conventional workplace.
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Team
Todd Hammond, Virginia Mazal, Josephine Meldgaard, Natasha Hammond, Harry Pettis
Project Brief
Hammond Studio worked tirelessly to push the boundaries in designing the Sydney headquarters for SafetyCulture in a way that brings people to the office for inspired connection, idea sharing and collaborative work.
The client's brief was to deliver a workplace where staff can work effectively from anywhere, with highly integrated technology and engaging meeting spaces to come together as a team and collaborate. They asked us to create a workplace that people genuinely enjoy spending time at. Even more challenging to achieve after the workforce had been at home during the pandemic and had to be lured back.
SafetyCulture features:
- ‘Lucia’s’ Italian ground floor restaurant and bar with up to 400 seats
- ‘Dive Bar’ lower ground sports bar
- ‘Culture Club’ roof top bar and pizzeria
- ‘Zone’ wellness yoga studio, Peloton equipment, strength training and end of trip facilities
- ‘Tamper’ Espresso bar
- Quiet zones such as a parent's retreat and prayer room
- 13 client-themed meeting rooms that are reproductions of their customer’s daily work environments. Brands include Toyota, IKEA, Cathay Pacific, Rio Tinto, Goodstart Early Learning, Coles, Australian Open and Krispy Cream
Project Innovation/Need
Among SafetyCulture’s core principles is its commitment to sustainability, which manifested through many environmentally conscious measures including embodied carbon assessments, but, perhaps most impressive is the breath-taking – and indeed purifying – four metre-high Junglefy ‘Breathing Tree’ located in the building atrium.
The first of its kind in the world and an Australian invention, the tree's 'trunk' contains 24 modules of patented technology which provide an active biofiltration system that cleans the air of harmful pollutants. The tree's 'branches' are built from custom architectural steel arbours to mimic a tree canopy and support climbing plants. The Breathing Tree’s leafy canopy shades the ground floor’s breakout space and offers beautiful views to the work floors above.
Design Challenge
Ideally positioned in Sydney's creative-tech hub Surry Hills, the nine-floored building has been designed to accommodate rapid growth with a fully-flexible work environment. The entire workplace is an extension of their branding and company values. We branded each floor in a unique colour from their branding palette, to act as an identifier of where you are in the building. To encourage collaboration and innovation, we created immersive customer-themed meeting rooms.
An array of wellness and event spaces include a restaurant 'Lucia's', cafe, games area, state-of-the-art gym, prayer/reflection room, parent's room, theatre, and large rooftop terrace with pizza oven. All decisions and selections were assessed on sustainability, embodied carbon impact and other parameters of cost and time.
Sustainability
Our firm is committed to sustainability, which manifested through many environmentally conscious measures at SafetyCulture. The most impressive inclusion was the breath-taking and air purifying, 4m-high Junglfy ‘Breathing Tree’ in the atrium.
The first in the world and an Australian invention, the tree's 'trunk' contains 24 modules of patented technology which provide an active biofiltration system that cleans the air of harmful pollutants. The tree's 'branches' are custom architectural steel arbours to mimic a tree canopy, and support climbing plants. The leafy canopy shades the ground floor’s breakout space and offers beautiful views to the work floors above.
In our specification process, we chose products that come from businesses that are champions of sustainability and circularity.
Interior Design - Commercial
This award celebrates innovative and creative building interiors, with consideration given to space creation and planning, furnishings, finishes, aesthetic presentation and functionality. Consideration also given to space allocation, traffic flow, building services, lighting, fixtures, flooring, colours, furnishings and surface finishes.
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