Planning Center Online Headquarters

The new space facilitates the relocation of a growing and creative software tech company with a dynamic and casual work method. Walking through a graphically and spatially bold entry passage, one connects directly into the workplace, an open, relaxed space with fluid group desks, comfortable lounge seating, strong colors and team meeting volumes clad with oriented strand board and floor-ceiling glass.

A concrete-floored walkway “spine” connects the rhythmic wall of offices along the edge of the workspace, and is frequently animated by scooter, skateboard, and bicycle traffic, and occasionally even the site of beanbag and Frisbee tosses. The building interior is kept whole, ordered lengthwise by a bar of enclosed offices, webcast and phone rooms, and bathrooms, leaving the bulk of space a series of flexible subspaces that are equally comfortable for individual programming and small team collaborations.

No printers, no copiers, no servers, no paper filing, no assigned cubicles, no time clock; work happens wirelessly anywhere throughout the building. Custom-designed desks provide shared, adaptable, unassigned, wireless and paperless work space for individual or small-group programming.  Team rooms host collective efforts while loosely breaking up the workspace.  Loose lounge seating and work-bar counters give employees options to create comfortably and to enjoy broad views to the adjacent canyon descending to the Pacific.