Kendall Square Workspace

• location:
  Cambridge, MA
• Date:
  Completed 2018
• client:
  Global Tech Company
• collaborators:
  Architect of Record: Utile, Inc.
  Structural Engineer: Simpson Gumpertz & Heger, Inc.
  Mechanical Engineer: WSP
  Code Consultant: Code Red Consultants
  Lighting Designer: Lam Partners
  Photographer: Chuck Choi
• project_team:
  Principal-In-Charge: Elizabeth Whittaker
  Project Manager: Jessie Fowler
  Design Team: Chris Johnson, Jessica Pace, Jamie Pelletier, Nebia Zeroual
• description:
  MERGE architects as Design Architect, and Utile, Inc as Architect of Record were commissioned to master plan and execute part of a tech-company’s office renovation and expansion in Cambridge, MA. The master planning program consisted of open workspace, collaborative spaces, meeting rooms, dining facilities, gym and wellness facilities, and performance/lecture halls campus-wide. These programmatic parameters were used to inform the localized requirements of the subsequent projects, including the renovation of these 53,000 square feet across three floors. Inspired by a road-trip through New England, this phase of the project highlights the region’s exceptional geography and ecology, with each floor focused on a feature of the local terrain. The different geographies are expressed through abstract representations of material, texture, color, graphics and form. The different environments of the three floors are intended as a collective experience, each reimagining and redefining the concept of work and how it is interwoven into collaborative, food, and social space.