Located within a Haussmannian mansion in Paris, PwC’s new experience center is a prime space for employees to explore new realms of creativity for the professional services giant. Vincent & Gloria Architectes recently completed the design for the PwC Experience Center located in Paris, France. The audit firm PwC has chosen to install its new Experience Center in the heart of the new epicenter of the French Tech, real showcase of the brand.
More than just a simple workspace, it is an innovation laboratory, a place of collaboration and co-creation, immersive and creative. The visitor is invited to live a customer experience: a black wire guides him on the whole site, it runs on the walls, the floor and the ceiling. It sometimes interrupts to indicate the name of the rooms or to become communication medium. It links the different spaces that illustrate the stages of the process of reflection and creation of Design Thinking projects: Exploring, Creating, Realizing. The uses have been studied to be reinvented in order to create adapted and disruptive spaces. Directing ideas has been breaking codes.
Empty and modular room, an anamorphic flashing evokes the idea that coming up.. In the Jungle Room, they explore to find the way to the good ideas. The immersion is total: jungle wallpaper on the walls creates the perspective and decor, a plant composition dotted with bright spots on the ceiling creates the canopy. We opted for wood and green laminate furniture.
In the Dream room, ideas are emerged. In the Crystal room solutions are developed. In the Fab Lab, models are prototyped. In the Sigma Room, works are exposed.Projects are developed in small working rooms called War Rooms. A colored square on the ceiling is reminiscent of the post-it with which teams work and a black and white graphic floor animates the space. The furniture is light, heterogeneous to promote mobility, exchange and dynamism.
Project Name:PWC Experience Center Office
Project location: Paris, France
Project type:office space/building renovation
Project area: 18578 square feet (about 1326 square meters)
Finished Year:2019
Design Company:Vincent & Gloria Architectes
Photographer:Arnaud Schelstraete