Similar to video video games, workplace design is a excessive stakes journey the place collaboration and creativity will get you throughout the end line. For Kinzo Architekten, this finish purpose is the profitable completion of an workplace house for sport developer and writer KRAFTON and its PUBG Studios – the group liable for the favored on-line sport Battlegrounds. By translating their fictional sport structure right into a useful office in Seoul, Kinzo has not solely captured the essence of PUBG Studios’ design and aesthetic, but in addition created an immersive surroundings that fosters teamwork and innovation amongst its occupants.
Partnering with inside design agency Dawon & Firm to implement the planning and handle the development, Kinzo mirrors the gameplay of PUBG by turning workplace flooring into maps, full with iconic monuments and interconnected pathways. This spatial structure encourages exploration and interplay amongst staff harking back to how gamers maneuver via play. The primary staircase, impressed by the sport’s “battle royale” mechanics, serves as a placing point of interest and leads staff to areas for leisure, just like the tea kitchens and recreation rooms. Adjoining to the staircase are lounge areas, informal standing areas, and assembly rooms that help probability encounters and impromptu exchanges.
Much like how cooperation is the important thing to success in multi-player video games, the collaborative workspaces, strategically positioned assembly rooms, and shared workstations foster this sense of camaraderie and synergy inside the workplace surroundings.
Temper and aesthetic had been rigorously thought of to precisely seize the essence of the sport, in addition to guarantee a snug and conducive work surroundings for the sport’s programmers preferring darker areas to focus. From this underground stage, the staircase ultimately results in the roof terrace, which boasts panoramic views of Gangnam, the center of Seoul.
With the completion of this undertaking, Kinzo successfully interprets PUBG Studios’ fantastical narratives right into a working workplace design for an immersive surroundings that totally displays the digital worlds the workers construct.
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Photographs courtesy of KRAFTON.
