Studio O + A

Cisco Offices

Cisco Offices
© Jasper Sanidad
Cisco Offices
© Jasper Sanidad

Cisco Offices 

Studio O+A

INTERIOR DESIGNERS
Studio O+a

MANUFACTURERS
Creative Systems Lighting, Hive Modern, Niche Modern

STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS
Pannu, Larsen & Mccartney

CONTRACTOR
Principal Builders

LEED CONSULTANTS
Beryline

PROJECT TEAM
Primo Orpilla, Denise Cherry, Perry Stephney, Clem Soga, Steve Gerten, Elizabeth Guerrero, Chase Lunt, Alma Lopez, Caren Currie, Sarunya Wongjodsri, Justin Ackerman, David Hunter, Jeorge Jordan, Olivia Ward, Kroeun Dav, Amie Zemlicka, Alex Bautista, Maleesa Pollock, Will Chu

MEP CONSULTANTS
Mep Consultants

KITCHEN CONSULTANTS
Ras Design Group

CLIENT
Cisco-­‐meraki

SOFTWARE USED
Autocad, 3d Studio Max, Adobe Creative Suite

PERMIT CONSULTANTS
A.r. Sanchez-­‐corea & Associates

PHOTOGRAPHS
Jasper Sanidad

AREA
110000 Ft²

YEAR
2013

LOCATION
San Francisco, United States

CATEGORY
Institutional Buildings, Offices Interiors

The panoramic view of San Francisco’s water front from Cisco-­‐Meraki’s new offices in some ways setsthe theme for O+A’s design. Viewed from almost any angle, the interiors create an impression of light, spaciousness, bright color, long sightlines.

Cisco Offices
© Jasper Sanidad
Cisco Offices
© Jasper Sanidad
Cisco Offices
© Jasper Sanidad

Meraki, which was recently acquired by Cisco Systems, takes pride in the elegance of the wireless routers itdesigns.

O+A sought to build the space the way Meraki builds its products, with an emphasis on simplicity and seamless ease of use, while remaining mindful of the importance of the Cisco-­‐Meraki merger to the company’s identity.

Located in the rapidly changing Mission Bay neighborhood, Cisco-­‐Meraki’s 110,000-­‐square-­‐footsuite of offices now becomes Cisco’s principal San Francisco location.

Cisco Offices
© Jasper Sanidad
Cisco Offices
© Jasper Sanidad

At the outset, O+A surveyed Meraki’s employees to find out what they liked about their old, much smaller headquarters. A consensus emerged for natural light, plenty of collaboration space, and preservation of thecompany’stightly knit culture.

The size of the new space and the prominence of its floor-­‐to-­‐ceiling windows made collaboration and natural light relatively easy to incorporate.

Cisco Offices
© Jasper Sanidad
Cisco Offices
© Jasper Sanidad

O+A’sdesign offers a variety of meeting spaces—formal and informal, indoor and outdoor—many of them bathed in the crystal line light of San Francisco Bay.

The scale and the light support a rich palette of colors and design elements: a wide staircase with integrated stadium seating at its base, a meeting room with hanging tillandsia plants, and an outdoor deck offering views of the baseball park and Bay Bridge.

Cisco Offices
© Jasper Sanidad
Cisco Offices
© Jasper Sanidad

Main taining Meraki’s cozy ambience in the hangar-­‐sized complex proved more challenging. O+A’ssolution was to create a medley of small gathering spaces within the large footprint.

Sunken seatingbrings intimacy to horizontal common areas while preserving broad sightlines. Yurts, cabanas, and phone rooms offer varying levels of enclosure. Throughout the office, colleagues can sit down and talk in informal lounge spaces.

Cisco Offices
© Jasper Sanidad
Cisco Offices
© Jasper Sanidad

Despite the rich finishes and the wide array of typologies, one of O+A’s goals was to give Cisco-­‐Meraki employees a blank canvas on which to paint their own pictures.

In lieu of pervasive branding graphics, O+A provided ubiquitous chalkboards, whiteboards, and corkboards so that employees could sketch, write, and pin-­‐up graphics meaning ful to them.

Cisco Offices
© Jasper Sanidad
Cisco Offices
© Jasper Sanidad

As might be expected, given the company’s strong do-­‐it-­‐yourself culture, mobility and adaptability were big factors in the selection of furniture and work stations. These are people who like to move things around.

The intention was to tame the big space and make it human.

Cisco Offices
© Jasper Sanidad
Cisco Offices
© Jasper Sanidad

Watching Meraki employees travel from department to department via unicycle, gather for lunch on the breezy deck, or make use of the yurtsand wall “pop-­‐ins” throughout the day, we believe that goal was achieved.


Cisco Offices
© Jasper Sanidad
Cisco Offices
© Jasper Sanidad
Cisco Offices
© Jasper Sanidad
Cisco Offices
© Jasper Sanidad
Cisco Offices
© Jasper Sanidad
Cisco Offices
© Jasper Sanidad
Cisco Offices
Cisco Offices
Cisco Offices
Cisco Offices
© Jasper Sanidad
Cisco Offices
© Jasper Sanidad
Cisco Offices
© Jasper Sanidad
Cisco Offices
© Jasper Sanidad
Cisco Offices
© Jasper Sanidad
Cisco Offices
© Jasper Sanidad


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