Airbnb Office –

888 Brannan to 999 Brannan

Institutional Buildings, Offices Interiors

•San Francisco,California United States

Airbnb is a world where you can be at home

everywhere, and everyone can be at home at
Airbnb.»
 Airbnb Office-999

 Architects: Airbnb Environments

 Area :  14000 m²
 Year :  2017
 Photographs :Mariko Reed
 Manufacturers :  Andreu World, ALW, Herman
Miller, ICF, Vitra
 Lead Architects : Aaron Taylor Harvey, Rachael
Harvey
 REQUİREMENTS
 more than 200 employees
 16 neighbourhoods with identical components
 in the neighborhood of programmers, developers,
analysts, or designers a week, hosting 500 people
in a day.
 three phone rooms
 personal storage
 15 to 30 person garage
 a meeting room
 Research Process

There were two teams at work

 TEAM A…
was dealed with Airbnb for four months, and
worked closely with two of the founders
 TEAM A…
was focused on the overall building
 The Advantages of Open Plan

   Better Employee Relations

   Increased collaboration
   Health benefits
 Budget saving
   Greater flexibility
 The Disadvantages of Open Plan

   Lack of concentration
   Increased noise leads to isolation
   Transmission of illness
 Lack of leadership
   Loss of privacy
ATRIUM

“We wanted to use the atrium

as a front door to the Airbnb
space,” Lisa Bottom
seeing a cross section of the very homes
without any logos belongs to AİRBNB
Slope of a ramp
Longitudinal Ramps
 Ramps must have a maximum slope of 6.25%
 The levels at the beginning and end of the ramps must have
a minimum longitudinal dimension of 1.20 m.
 Landings located in changes of direction must have
dimensions equal to the width of the ramp.
 For ramps with a slope between 6.25 % and 8.33 %, it is
recommended to create rest areas on the landings, every 50
Curvilinear ramps
 Curvilinear ramps
 The minimum recommended free width for
ramps on accessible routes is 1.50 m
 Every ramp must have two-height handrails on
each side
 a minimum radius of 3.00 m, measured in the
internal perimeter of the curve;
Innovative Ramp Solutions
The Ed Roberts Campus
Mediathek / Laboratory of Architecture
Best examples!
How to fly with
a wheelchair?
 "Belonging Anywhere"
 Philosophy = Transformative
‘if we spend less time at a desk, we need fewer desks and can make room for the
variety of places and ways we work.’

 Concept Keywords
creativity, community engagement, and thoughtful design

 Aim
to show Airbnb’s global expansion by creating environments that encourage and
exemplify their core values by hosting employees and guests.
And also, with the concept, to use the colour, patterns and materials reflecting the
local culture as global office design strategy
Concept versus
Space Planning
 The office canteen features long communal tables where staff can
hold informal meetings, while the walls are covered in over a hundred
sketches relating to different employee experiences.
 They wanted to create a space that encourages their employees to
move around, interact across disciplines, and see movement and
activity.
 888 Brannan

999 Brannan
 888 Brannan

999 Brannan
 888 Brannan

999 Brannan
 888 Brannan

999 Brannan
 888 Brannan

999 Brannan
Find the difference?
GAME TIME

*HOW MANY RISE DO YOU STEP FROM A MAIN ENTRANCE OF ‘D

BLOK’ TO THE CLASS?
*HOW MANY DIFFERENT HEIGHT OF RISE DO YOU STEP?

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