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2018 Kaiser Permanente Design Excellence Award
September 2018
September 2018
Overall Design Award Kaiser PTC A4/D4 Refresh
Our team recently won the Overall Design award for the PTC A4/D4 Renovation project at the 2018 Kaiser Permanente Design Excellence Awards. The workplace aligns Kaiser IT’s work style and culture by creating a user- centric environment that supports concentration, collaboration, and community.
Our team recently won the Overall Design award for the PTC A4/D4 Renovation project at the 2018 Kaiser Permanente Design Excellence Awards. The workplace aligns Kaiser IT’s work style and culture by creating a user- centric environment that supports concentration, collaboration, and community.
KPIT’s management group approached the design team with a new challenge; break from the existing private office intensive environment and design the new workplace in order to enable employees and teams to work differently and collaboratively. This new directive offers a more collaborative, open, and less siloed workplace with open sight lines to all team members.
The workplace design needed to enhance and support the team’s new workstyle allowing both opportunities for collaboration and moments for quiet heads-down work. Workstations needed to accommodate various users because the entire floor was moving to “free address”. This led to the development of the new IThrive station – a workstation that is customizable with detached components that can be moved to the users' preference.
Breakout spaces in proximity to the workstations, team rooms, and small meeting spaces spread throughout floor, promote collaborative work, while a new hub/game room for social interaction and gathering is encourages collision and interaction among the larger IT community.
Colors and graphic branding elements - nature + technology - link the spaces.
The workplace aligns Kaiser IT’s work style and culture by creating a user- centric environment that supports concentration, collaboration, and community's. This employee centric space is designed to drive employee engagement, productivity, and support talent attraction and retention.