Top: Looking through the cafe area with the CEO and other senior staff are meeting, to the more formal and informal working areas
Above: Looking through the more formal work area complete with interactive white board and video conferencing through to the small meeting rooms
The new additional education offices at Countryside have caused a variety of comments from staff, ranging from people requesting if they can move into it, to those with some reservations about the flexible nature of the layout. This was very much as predicted as some people have to adapt working styles on moving into the new spaces.
Designed by Prakash Nair (FNI) the office very much reflects the new paradigm that we are moving to for our schools. Versatile, multifunctional spaces that allow for a variety of ways of working.
Staff based there are all peripatetic – they are almost all ‘on the road’ for the majority of their working time. Therefore giving them a full time dedicated office is not a cost efficient use of space. Everyone has their own secure storage and filing, but work spaces are shared, a desk they work at one day may be used by someone else next time they arrive, or may even be in a different configuration.
Some staff do have confidential phone calls and meetings – there are two small meeting rooms and a larger conference room, all bookable, for these purposes. Video conferencing can be done from both the conference room and the open area for larger groups.
The totally ‘wireless’ environment provides formal work areas with tables in a variety of groupings (but all moveable), informal meeting areas with sofas and easy chairs and a café area complete with open plan ‘kitchenette’ for working lunches etc. There is a move towards transparency in all working areas so people visiting can see people working when ever they arrive. The ofices and conference room are deliberatly designed with 'glass walls' to reinforce this philosophy. (Even in the older Education building, the majority of walled 'cubicles' have been taken down to reflect this view.
This working space is a trial for the Learning Community spaces within each of the new secondary campuses currently being built in Cayman. Judging by the increasing use that it is getting and the growing requests to book it, we are going in the right direction!
Designed by Prakash Nair (FNI) the office very much reflects the new paradigm that we are moving to for our schools. Versatile, multifunctional spaces that allow for a variety of ways of working.
Staff based there are all peripatetic – they are almost all ‘on the road’ for the majority of their working time. Therefore giving them a full time dedicated office is not a cost efficient use of space. Everyone has their own secure storage and filing, but work spaces are shared, a desk they work at one day may be used by someone else next time they arrive, or may even be in a different configuration.
Some staff do have confidential phone calls and meetings – there are two small meeting rooms and a larger conference room, all bookable, for these purposes. Video conferencing can be done from both the conference room and the open area for larger groups.
The totally ‘wireless’ environment provides formal work areas with tables in a variety of groupings (but all moveable), informal meeting areas with sofas and easy chairs and a café area complete with open plan ‘kitchenette’ for working lunches etc. There is a move towards transparency in all working areas so people visiting can see people working when ever they arrive. The ofices and conference room are deliberatly designed with 'glass walls' to reinforce this philosophy. (Even in the older Education building, the majority of walled 'cubicles' have been taken down to reflect this view.
This working space is a trial for the Learning Community spaces within each of the new secondary campuses currently being built in Cayman. Judging by the increasing use that it is getting and the growing requests to book it, we are going in the right direction!
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