In order to reverse this condition, the new building is designed with a large open room, capable of accommodating all employees, flexible desk arrangements create a collaborative working environment that minimizes the current hierarchy, with directors seated in open desks alongside employees. The plan also provides for a variety of work spaces, including enclosed, semi-private meeting rooms, exterior courts, open terraces, archives and reading spaces that provide a variety of work environments (both interior and exterior) for productive individual and/or collaborative work.
The overall form of the building is inspired by both vernacular and industrial building typologies seen throughout the Guatemalan countryside.
Cúre & Penabad, MAG Corporate Headquarter, Escuintla, Guatemala. First and second floor plan
MAG Corporate Headquarter, Escuintla, Guatemala
Program: headquarter
Architects: Cúre & Penabad
Consultant: ARUP Engineers
Contractor: Ingenio Magdalena
Mechanical Engineer: Basulto and Associates
Area: 6,300 sqm
Completion: 2015