New Relic is a rapidly growing San Francisco based digital intelligence company. For their new space, New Relic sought to capture its innovative culture in a unique office design, while exploring new ways of working in anticipation of company growth. They approached M Moser SF to help them develop this vision and find innovative solutions specific to their needs.
Through engaged exploration with the client, our design team realized there were many existing perspectives on the company’s cultural identity and how this identity has evolved over time. Reflecting this dynamic culture and capturing that spirit of innovation and evolution in the space was the driving factor in the design of New Relic’s workplace.
New Relic, San Francisco. Credit: © Jasper Sanidad Photography
Finding synergy between aesthetic and cost-driven decision-making, we proposed utilizing existing rooms, as well as creating new spaces, to design a dynamic expression that was a departure from the current form. The resulting solution is an energized new space that, through folding planes of color and wood, reflects the evolving culture of the company. Each floor maximizes the form of the prior build-out, while still generating a unique expression of each space with a consistent design language throughout.
At the heart of each floor is a vibrant kitchenette, which connects the workspace with social and collaboration amenities while providing additional work destinations. These zones were critical to maintain sharing and comradery amidst New Relic’s growing teams. To support focus work, an extensive number of phone rooms and private nooks were added adjacent to the open workspace. These flexible spaces support various modes of working for their growing mobile staff, as well as being integral to non-mobile teams in the open office. ‘Mobility hubs’ are tucked away for deeper focus with communal tables, booths, and lounge seating to provide reliable destinations for longer-term working.
New Relic, San Francisco. Credit: © Jasper Sanidad Photography
From a design perspective, it was important to make mobile areas just as appealing as permanent desks to promote the growing mobile program and create a cohesive design to support a variety of workstyles. M Moser helped the client understand how they could distribute both traditional workstations and mobile work areas to seamlessly integrate mobile and flexible work as a central component of the new office design.
ABOUT M MOSER ARCHITECTS PLLC
M Moser Architects PLLC is a world leader in creating new workspaces for global companies undergoing business and cultural transformations to create agile work environments. From start-ups to established global corporations, our diverse clients reflect the changing landscape of how we work. As companies embrace new technologies and practices within their business, we create solutions through design thinking that transform environments to be healthy, sustainable and forward-looking. Select M Moser clients include Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Blackstone, Citi, McKinsey, Merck, GSK, Pfizer and Pivotal Labs.
The firm successfully blends workspace design with efficient, evidence-based research in different fields directly related to work performance optimization. This approach has earned M Moser notable accolades, including AIA International Region Honor Award for Interior Architecture 2016 along with several AIA International Region Design Awards, Architizer A+ Awards Special Mention 2017 for Saatchi & Saatchi in NYC, and “Best of the Year” by Interior Design for several years. MMoser is ranked in Interior Design’s ‘Top 100 Giants’ and is one of the top architectural practices in Asia. The firm has been the recipient of the First Well v1 certified project in Asia-Pacific. Just as LEED is known as a system of guidelines for sustainable buildings and interiors, WELL provides best practices for ‘wellness’. Following WELL guidelines for fresh water, clean air, light, nutrition, ergonomic seating, acoustics and other design elements to create healthier and more productive work environment.
