Aquent

Aquent is the world's leading marketing, web, and creative staffing agency. For the past six years, Huntsman has planned and designed multiple regional offices in North America. For its Boston headquarters, Aquent took the opportunity to explore a different approach to work settings:  what if employees could work anywhere, have different environments to choose from, and not be department-driven?  With no assigned workspaces for staff, Aquent desired a space that maintains a holistic perspective on the workplace viewed as one shared space and not individually owned.  

The design team developed a parti to transform the building footprint bifurcated by a central atrium by using popular building forms.  A series of destinations offer varying social and focused work and leisure settings.  Each has a unique personality such as a terrace, pergola, back porch, library, general store, makeshift huts and start-up garage. The design of these capture a blend of the modern and natural, and recall the sort of place one would seek out in a campus atmosphere.

Introducing the natural environment was another client goal; by incorporating spaces designed to evoke the outdoors, the design team detailed them using natural materials such as timber beams, lattice work panels, and oversized wood sliding doors. A concierge desk replaces the usual reception, and an open café provides diverse work settings and amenities for guests and employees alike.


Client Aquent
Location Boston, MA
Scope Office Planning and Design
Size 30,000 square feet

Related Pages
"Keep the Culture, Change the Workstyle"
Aquent San Francisco

Awards
Honoree
Interior Design MakeItWork Awards 2015

Credits Photography by Trent Bell