EF Offices

EF Offices
© Patricia Nogueira

EF OFFICES

ST Arquitetura

ARCHITECTS
ST Arquitetura

PHOTOGRAPHS
Patricia Nogueira

YEAR
2012

LOCATION
Sao Paulo, Brazil

CATEGORY
Office

Text description provided by architect.

The Swedish - founded education and student exchange multinational EF spent more than 2 years looking for a building that fulfilled all of its needs, which were:

EF Offices
© Patricia Nogueira
EF Offices
© Patricia Nogueira

it had to be a single-user building with a space to attend the public and it had to maintain the youthful air of the Company.

Besides this, the building had to be large enough to accommodate and unify different companies within the same group.

EF Offices
© Patricia Nogueira
EF Offices
© Patricia Nogueira

This search, with the consulting services of ST Arquitetura, lead us to a building with a strong character designed by the architect Carlos Bratke to which we sought to add our own Corporate Architectural project without clashing with the characteristics of the building, but rather using them in favor of creating a space marked by differentials

The new facilities, despite having visually separated parts – for attending the public, corporate offices, meeting rooms, training rooms and even a small call-center, maintains an aspect of lightness in the distribution of space and the interface between the areas.

EF Offices
© Patricia Nogueira
EF Offices
© Patricia Nogueira

None of the areas stands out in detriment to the others and the finished product constitutes a single and whole unit that fully meets the needs of the Company.

This was possible thanks to the intense use of transparency, separated by a number of embrasures glazed with colored glass.

EF Offices
© Patricia Nogueira
EF Offices
© Patricia Nogueira

The solid concrete slab from the original project, despite its relatively low ceiling, was left visible and treated so that the characteristics of its component material would not cause any acoustic problems in the day-to-day functioning of the offices.

The finishing touches included images taken from the Company´s own image bank on all of the floors, providing a reading for the core business of the company and bringing unity to all of the departments.

EF Offices
© Patricia Nogueira
EF Offices
© Patricia Nogueira
EF Offices
© Patricia Nogueira


EF Offices
© Patricia Nogueira
EF Offices
© Patricia Nogueira
EF Offices
© Patricia Nogueira
EF Offices
© Patricia Nogueira
EF Offices
© Patricia Nogueira
EF Offices
© Patricia Nogueira
EF Offices
© Patricia Nogueira
EF Offices
© Patricia Nogueira


EF Offices
Courtesy of ST Arquitetura
EF Offices
Courtesy of ST Arquitetura
EF Offices
Courtesy of ST Arquitetura
EF Offices
Courtesy of ST Arquitetura


EF Offices
Courtesy of ST Arquitetura