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Pan-Asia Life Insurance Group

The Innovation Curve

Sector
Banking, Finance & Insurance
Type
Workplace
Location
Hong Kong
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Pan-Asia Life Insurance Group

The Innovation Curve

With over US$230 billion in assets, this Hong Kong-headquartered, independent pan-Asia insurer needed to relocate some 920 staff into a multi-floor, 80,000 SF leased premises in Wanchai. Astutely, the Board seized this opportunity to comprehensively reengineer its workplace paradigm, engaging One Space from Concept to Completion.

Our analysis of the client’s organisational structure and the floorplate geometry resulted in shared amenities planned on each floor that would support a wide spectrum of day-to-day work needs – from solo tasks and quiet concentration, to collaboration, new product ideation and videoconferencing. Exploiting the circular floorplate, we created ‘radial bands’ of work zones overlaid with ‘concentric rings’ of support features. This diagram established a great deal of flexibility for the business to grow and morph as the company’s needs evolved over time.