Selected Project
Statistics NZ Fitout
In early 2004 Studio Pacific was selected to provide briefing, design and contract administration services for the hard and soft fitout for Statistics New Zealand (SNZ)’s new premises. The strategic brief was fundamentally geared towards radically changing the way that SNZ worked and our fitout design is intended to support those objectives. The ground floor of the 5 levels is the main reception and public area. There is an information centre, a suite of meeting rooms and a cafe that serves both the 530 staff and is available to the public. By grouping all these activities on the ground floor there is a feeling of activity and vibrancy that this government department did not previously have. Access to the upper floors is either by lifts or a generous glazed stair. Off this, each floor is focussed around the Gather Space, an informal work and social area. The base building suspended ceiling was deleted in this area and a higher slotted panel ceiling installed. Lighting is also more casual to create some change and relief from the work areas. To the east and west, meeting rooms (for internal meetings and video conferencing) open into the hub area, also preventing the hub activity spilling into the adjacent open plan work areas. The quiet rooms (typically 4 per floor) are for concentrated work and located on the perimeter where they are both pleasant to be in and able to be seen as available for staff use. The floors accommodate typically 130 workstations. These are a 120-degree desk with an individual storage unit. They are laid out in a non-rigid arrangement giving a matrix of pathways and communication routes.
- Category
- 25 Year Award for Enduring Architecture
- Location
- Auckland
- Year
- 2006
