Skype Corporate Headquarters / WAM

Jan 2011

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Architects: WAM
Location: Clausen, Luxembourg
Project year: 2010
Photographs: Courtesy of WAM

This project, the Corporate Headquarters for Skype is based in a new building that forms part of the regeneration works to an existing brewery located in Clausen, the old quarter of Luxembourg City.

The challenge set to us by the client was to provide an interior that would inspire innovation in the daily workplace of Skype employees whilst retaining an element of corporate sophistication and provide high performance AV meeting facilities together with a dynamic flexible office space.

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Our response was to step back and review current working practices at Skype and develop a wider strategy, which we called the Skype DNA.

This would form the blueprint for Skype offices globally. Notably this included better communication between teams, a more fluid, dynamic office layout that could support the nomadic, roving nature of many of the Skype employees and the way they work, and to provide better meeting and conference spaces.

With this project the ceiling is employed as a topographical device to encourage movement through the space, the wave like form is a contextual reference to the river running along side that once served the brewery. The ceiling design also fully integrates the lighting and building services systems, importantly it gives an uplifting ambience to the space, people ‘look up’ when they enter and immediately know they are in a space that challenges office convention with innovative thinking.

The high performance acoustic meeting pods are clad in timber, again a reference to brewing barrels, but also offer a softer and sustainable material to the palette.

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The pods are like Lily Pads in the river, located to provide a segueing district between office teams encouraging flow of movement between them.

The building skin is a ventilated façade system providing efficient building heating and cooling, and good quality natural light, this also maximises views to either side which the fluid office arrangement takes full advantage of. All materials selected by WAM for the fit out process have been carefully considered in terms of the environment.

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* Location to be used only as a reference. It could indicate city/country but not exact address.

Cite:
Rosenberg , Andrew . "Skype Corporate Headquarters / WAM" 23 Jan 2011. ArchDaily. Accessed 16 May 2012. <http://www.archdaily.com/105285>

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up_today_arch says:

The ceiling looks nice…

# January 24, 2011 at 04:26

gmwg says:

agreed, the ceiling is awesome..

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