LINKEDIN SUNNYVALE PRODUCTION CENTER

THE GARAGE: CREATIVE WORKSHOP

The heart of the new studio is The Garage, a fresh take on the traditional meeting room that offers employees a place where they can think creatively and ideate freely. The design picks up on the West Coast tradition of great ideas being born in garages—think Apple and Microsoft—to offer a one-of-a-kind conference room. A large bi-fold door opens into a polished concrete space, offering a refined update on the no-frills garage aesthetic.

EMBRACING SUSTAINABILITY

Sustainability was a key driver of the design. The retrofit re-uses the entire core and shell of the existing building and makes interventions as required to optimize the acoustic environment, minimizing carbon impact. The only change to the building skin was the garage door, and the interiors are planned around the existing restroom core, allowing it to stay in place and reducing the amount of new construction. With the help of an arborist, Interdisciplinary Architecture was able to widen parking spaces per code requirements without disturbing the protected redwood trees around the building.

SHOWCASING FILM AND AUDIO HISTORY

Throughout the interiors, environmental graphics reference the history and science of film-making and audio-editing, imbuing the workspaces with a sense of craft and tradition. In one hallway, a lenticular graphic set for 24 frames per second at walking speed shows early moving pictures studies of the body in motion. Another shows a visualization of sound waves. The conference room names are all inspired by terms from film and editing history: the Blockbuster Room, Betacam Room, Technicolor Room, and the Muybridge Conference Room, named after Eadward Muybridge, pioneer of photographic motion studies best known for his animated images of a horse in gallop and early photographs of San Francisco and Yosemite.