Firm： Evolution Design

Type： Commercial › Office

STATUS： Built

YEAR： 2017

SIZE： 25,000 sqft - 100,000 sqft

PULS is a medium-sized business that specialises in creating high quality DIN rail power supplies. The company took the opportunity of changing their premises for a complete modernisation and digitalisation of their workspace in order to retain their market leadership and compete more effectively with global players.

Evolution Design was tasked with creating a work environment that moved the company culture away from ‘islands of lonely workers’ towards a ‘networked community’.

The new work environment is developed around the concept of a small village. Each team is located in a distinct neighbourhood, with individual colours and a bold graphic concept defining and demarcating the space.

The design focuses on bringing together different departments to foster teamwork – with engineering, manufacturing and IT specialists now closely connected to sales & marketing, HR, and senior management.

Engineering motifs are used to create bespoke illustrations, which give the space an individual feel and help create a sense of belonging and identity.

Based on staff feedback, PULS decided against adopting a hot desking model and instead assigned individual desks to each staff member. But the overall area devoted to individual workplaces was reduced, delivering more floor space for communalareasfor collaborative working. Now these include a large central amphitheatre, a café and both formal and informal meeting spaces: lounges, coffee points, meeting pods and creative rooms in which to connect and exchange ideas.