As a counterpoint to the conventional corporate fitout, Woods Bagot designs a narrative-driven workspace featuring layered design techniques, expressive gestures and textural surfaces in a poetic response to BHP’s physical land assets.
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Given the extensive waste generated from typical workplace refurbishments, BHP showcases how excellence in design can come from innovative thinking around reuse and retention.
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Bronwyn McColl
‘Brave’ was the keyword that guided the team for the Melbourne headquarters, beginning with the reduction in the overall workspace from five to two-and-a-half floors. The smaller space needed to support a weighty brief, with themes emerging from stakeholder engagement including: connection to site, embedded sustainability, and respect for diversity and inclusion.
The Melbourne headquarters represents a unique proposition as the only Australian BHP office with no associated asset within the state. Consequently, the HQ needed to forge a sense of connection to the land through the interior design, with the textural and tonal scheme representing an abstraction of the geologies and striation of BHP’s sites.
“It was about creating a connection to site through the spatial design and material palette,” says senior interior designer Simone Lockley，“When we talk about connection to site in Melbourne, it’s about connecting to the global business and ensuring people who are typically CBD-based can engage with what the organisation is doing on the ground through the design.”
The resulting space is a poetic expression of physical land sites, legible in the subdued, earthy tones, soft detailing, and organic inserts. “The planning strategy was based around organic forms that sit in the middle of the floor plate, creating a meandering circulation path to mimic the topography of the land, as well as providing legible, inclusive paths of travel,” says Lockley. W-B worked with branding and wayfinding experts Studio Ongarato, who built on the brief and created flamed copper room signage and privacy decals inspired by cartographical patterns.
多元的空间造型和饰面色调的另一灵感来源是 BHP 的主要矿产资源。孕育矿产的大地被当地艺术家 Scanlan 和 Makers 转译为手工绘制的墙壁肌理；金属氧化的过程则呈现为蓝绿色调的空间。
Forms and finishes have been pulled from the terrain, with the colour palette drawing inspiration from BHP’s global portfolio of commodities. The textural painted walls by local artisans Scanlan and Makers are hand-applied with a satisfying terrestrial quality to evoke the tones of the earth, while the cooler contrasting blues and greens of upholstery and joinery evoke the metal oxidisation process.
“One of the successes of our Melbourne office is how well the design reflects BHP’s assets, mission and core values, expressing our brand identity through the interior design,” says BHP’s Principal for Design, Property and Workplace Kylie Holton.
Employee safety and wellbeing are BHP’s highest priority, both onsite and off, and this is reflected in the warm and transparent interior plan with dedicated wellness spaces for retreat and quiet reflection.
“Within the organic forms, we scooped out alcoves for art and objects, which create key landmarks and subtly inform wayfinding throughout the space while sharing stories of BHP’s history,” says Lockley.
Guided by BHP’s internal flexible working principles, the new workplace is designed with a range of typologies to suit diverse working styles. W-B worked closely with BHP’s specialist teams – including BHP’s LGBTQI+ inclusion group Jasper, Amber, BHP’s Accessibility and Inclusion Network, BHP Technology, and Operations & Security for health, safety and wellness – to create an agile workspace that encourages hybrid workstyles within diverse settings, returning autonomy to the user.
The design team also carried out a study of colour composition as a device for supporting quiet focus and energetic collaboration, with pinks and blues, and greens setting a calmer tenor in the wellness and retreat spaces, versus activated zones with accents of bold, contrasting core colours to promote dynamism and exchange.
The completed workplace is a tonal oasis with layered design devices, creating a tactile and textural interior space that evokes the geologies of the earth.
Photographer: SHARYN CAIRNS PHOTOGRAPHY
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