The AT&T Corporate Briefing Center had recently undergone a rebranding. The common areas reflected the new brand and company identity, but the briefing rooms, dining rooms, and restrooms had not been touched in 12 years. SAIC was asked to redesign the interiors and the audio-visual systems in those spaces and add a business center and customer touchdown areas as well. Our challenge was to maximize seating capacity in each room while maintaining a sense of openness and spaciousness and consider the work that had previously been done in the common areas so that the Corporate Briefing Center design appeared cohesive.
Because none of the Corporate Briefing Center briefing rooms have natural light, SAIC designed a direct-indirect lighting system to illuminate the ceilings. The light bounces off the ceiling and helps to illuminate the room, without glare or shadows. No two briefing rooms have identical finishes, although the design concept remains the same throughout. SAIC replaced all of the audio-visual systems in each briefing room as well. The rooms are outfitted with modular tables to provide maximum flexibility for accommodating groups of different sizes.
SAIC designed AT&T’s Corporate Briefing Center dining rooms with air walls to allow the change from one large space to two, three, or four smaller areas. All the finishes are light with some areas of soft color. A custom, frosted-glass ceiling panel system conceals energy efficient, warm fluorescent lighting and adds a distinctive design feature to the dining rooms. The dining rooms also have both wall-mounted flat screens and motorized projectors and screens hidden in the ceiling. This enables these rooms to serve double duty as both dining and meeting rooms.
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