Keeping it cozy

San Francisco’s waterfront Cisco-Meraki’s new offices designed by O+A are spacious, light and packed with vibrant colour. O+A sought to build the space the way Cisco-Meraki builds its products, with an emphasis on simplicity and seamless ease of use.

At the outset O+A surveyed Meraki’s employees to find out what they liked about their old, much smaller headquarters.

Maintaining Meraki’s cozy ambience in the hangar-sized complex proved challenging and O+A’s solution was to create a medley of small gathering spaces within the larger footprint. Sunken seating brings 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 information lounge spaces. Oh how workplaces have changed.

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