Setter Architects Ltd

Palo Alto Networks

Palo Alto Networks
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PALO ALTO NETWORKS

Setter Architects

CONTRACTOR
Terra Engineering & Construction Ltd.

PROJECT MANAGER
Yaron-Levi Ltd.

MANUFACTURERS
Troldtekt, INNOVATE, Pitaro

PHOTOGRAPHS
Itay Sikolski

AREA
3000 m²

YEAR
2016

LOCATION
Tel Aviv-yafo, Israel

CATEGORY
Offices Interiors

Palo Alto Networks is a company involved in developing cyber defense solutions. It is located in downtown Tel Aviv, on the 24th floor of a complex of multi-story office towers alongside an eclectic variety of buildings built during the city's historical eras.

Palo Alto Networks
© Itay Sikolski
Palo Alto Networks
© Itay Sikolski

This is a multi-layered colorful part of Tel Aviv, where alongside banks and high tech companies, one finds low-tech businesses and assorted shops such as painting workshops, artists’ studios and restaurants.

The design inspiration evolved from the aim of introducing that colorful eclectic low-tech outside environment into the 24th floor where Palo Alto, one of the world’s most innovative companies, is located.

Palo Alto Networks
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As the design team, we imported characteristic elements from the outside environment, filtered them into a design language and gave them different uses. For example:

- Steel window profiles and garage doors evolved in their role and expression into open-space partitions.
- Exposed brick blocks found a new role as an interior wall in a conference room.

- Old textured window glass were integrated in the partitions dividing private and public spaces.
-  Paint buckets from painting workshops become distinctive wall decorations.
- Old industrial fan blades became ultramodern light fixtures.

Palo Alto Networks
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All employees, including managers, work in open spaces located at the perimeter of the floor, alongside the windows. Transparent high partitions enable intimacy and improve acoustics, yet allow the urban feel of the outside environment to flow in.

Throughout the floor are formal/informal conference rooms, classrooms and working spaces that benefit from the transparent materials and visualization of the whole floor.

Palo Alto Networks
© Itay Sikolski
Palo Alto Networks
© Itay Sikolski

These transparent walls conceptualize the company's major product - its firewall.


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