xxx1- Reception 2- Services 3- Kitchen
xxx4- Meeting 5- Agents 6- Executive
xxx7- Management
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Client: DPM Financial Planning
Start up date: June 1998
Completion date: December 1998
Design team: Principals-in-Charge: Catherine Natlacen , John Apostolis
Design team: Aimée-Jill Bradley and Roxane Matte
Technician: Agostino Ambrosio
Engineers: Bouthillette Parizeau (mechanical and electrical)
Contractor: Construction Anjinnov Inc.
Consultants: Teknion (furniture systems)
Photography: Yves lefebvre
Project description:
A 5000 square foot corporate office for "DPM", an established Canadian financial planning firm.
Place Ville Marie, I.M. Pei’s landmark cruciform tower located in the heart of downtown Montreal, was selected by the client to complement their existing suburban headquarters.
Program:
~ a maximum number of perimeter executive and management offices
~ a large open area designed to accommodate a maximum number of support staff
and workstations
~ service areas including a kitchen, storage and server rooms
~ client areas including a boardroom, meeting room and reception
Design Challenge:
Achieve maximum visibility from the elevator lobby without having the benefit of immediate elevator exposure.
Create an environment sufficiently dynamic and contemporary to attract a young, urban, clientele, while remaining sufficiently conservative and professional to reflect the firm’s solid business approach.
Design Intervention:
The reception was angled towards the elevator lobby and a maximum visibility was assured by glazing a significant part of the perimeter demising wall.
The diagonal corridor which leads from the reception to the open area serves to reinforce the geometry of the space as well as organize the basic elements of the program along a main circulation spine.
Curved and linear geometries are juxtaposed in the design of the reception desk, hardware, gypsum ceiling, and sandblasted glass motif.
Conservative materials, including mahogany and Italian granite, as well as classic colors (navy blue and taupe) anchor the project in tradition.
Contemporary materials, such as stainless steel and glass, are used to contrast with the more traditional elements.
Double layers of sandblasted glass are inserted in the mahogany office doors to allow daylight to penetrate the interior open work area.
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