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Interior Designers: Studio O+A
- Area: 300 ft²
- Year: 2018
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Photographs:Garrett Rowland and Amy Young
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Manufacturers: 3M, Andreu World, AutoDesk, B&B Italia, Cooledge Lighting, Tom Dixon, Adobe, Black Crow Studios, Bluebeam, Enwork, Finelite, Fluxwerx, Geiger, HAY, Hem Design Studio, Herman Miller, Humanscale, Kettal, Naughtone, Pair Conference Tables, +7
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Engineering: CMI, Decker, Salter, AVDG, ESD, Holmes Structures
Text description provided by the architects. When Slack asked O+A to create its new multi-floor headquarters in San Francisco one design story presented itself immediately. Slack’s CEO Stewart Butterfeld is an outdoorsman, a hiker who goes off grid every year and recharges in the various types of wilderness—desert, mountains, forest—that make up the Pacifc Crest Trail.
Because that trail forms a bridge between two of Slack’s offices in Vancouver and San Francisco it seemed a thematic link too rich to pass up. O+A’s concept was to create a floor-by-floor evocation of those landscapes—in effect to turn a trip up the elevator into a virtual trip from Baja to the Pacific Northwest.
The idea was to suggest not just a variety of topographical and botanical contexts, but to capture, as well, the experiential links between hiking a wilderness trail—and work.