Organizing office space looks like a matter of layout: how many desks, how many rooms, where to put them. In reality it starts much earlier, with a single question: how do the people who spend their days there actually work? That is where a space that works comes from.
Starting from how people work
Every team has a different mix of activities: focus, collaboration, meetings, time off-site, informal moments. Organizing the office means giving each of these activities the right space, in the right amount. That is why we start from a real picture of how people work, obtained through interviews and surveys on the "typical day".
The zones of the workplace
That picture is where zones come from. The focus areas, where quiet matters. The collaboration areas, designed for exchange. The support spaces – meeting rooms, phone booths, print areas. And the informal spaces, where the exchanges no meeting room can schedule take place. Organizing office space means arranging these zones so they support one another.
Getting the size right
How many workstations are really needed? How many meeting rooms, and what size? This is where organization turns into numbers. With the BOMA standard we measure space efficiency objectively, and with the desk sharing ratio we calibrate workstations on people's actual presence. The result is a space sized on use, avoiding both overcrowding and wasted square metres.
The most common mistakes
Offices organized "by feel" are easy to spot: meeting rooms that are always empty and desks that are always full, informal areas turned into storage, corridors that lengthen every route. These are the signs of a space designed on paper, far from real use. They are corrected by going back to the data and reorganizing zones around real use.
The method: data first, then space
Organizing an office well is a method, made of data and repeatable choices. Ours is Community Based Design: the needs identified become square metres and work settings thanks to proprietary software, refined on 2.7 million m² designed. Data on how people work first, then the space that puts it into practice.
In one line
Organizing office space means starting from how people work, translating it into zones and measurements, and verifying it against real use. It is how a workplace stops being a container and becomes a tool. This is what we mean when we say your space our project.