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Bringing teams together in one location to create a unified identity.

Before collaborating with Factory, the French teams of Sienna Investment Managers were historically split between two different locations. The idea was to bring all employees under one roof in an open space. 

But that wasn’t all. The space needed to reflect Sienna IM's identity, collaborative work style, and ambition, with the transition to flex office as the cornerstone.  

Transforming the offices into a key space where collaboration is central. 

It was also our “Future at Work” approach that made the difference. They wanted a partner who could understand not only their operations but also their aspirations. Far from just addressing technical challenges, our project aimed to embody Sienna IM's DNA.  

Sienna IM sought a partner with an integrated offer capable of managing everything on a very tight schedule.  

This new space needed to support their growth, enhance exchanges, and above all, engage teams. The goal was to transform their offices into a vital hub where collaboration thrives. 

A variety of spaces promoting more flexible and collaborative work. 

This step was crucial for understanding individual needs and work habits, allowing us to design tailored spaces. Based on this feedback, we created a more agile and connected environment. We increased the number of meeting rooms to facilitate formal discussions while adding informal areas for spontaneous conversations. 

To truly understand employee expectations, we began with an in-depth listening phase conducted with the help of La Fabrique Spinoza. 

Quiet pods were also implemented, offering those who need it a place to focus. This diversity of spaces promotes more flexible and collaborative work while respecting personal preferences. 

Flex office and refined design supporting well-being and a strong identity.

The transition to flex office at Sienna IM was carefully planned. With a ratio of 8 desks for 10 employees, comfort remained a priority. Acoustics were meticulously designed to ensure confidentiality and serenity, both crucial in the finance sector. Spaces also encourage movement. Standing desks were installed, offering alternatives to traditional workstations. A spacious cafeteria, accommodating up to 70 people, was created to foster relaxation and internal events. The entire space exudes warmth, with custom furniture, elegant decor, and abundant greenery softening the atmosphere.  
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Sienna IM wanted a space that fully reflected its values and identity. Inspired by their graphic charter, we created a subtle color palette integrated into signage, glass partitions, and even decorative details. To strengthen ties to their brand image, we collaborated with a photographer specializing in nature photography. Her works animate common areas and meeting rooms, adding a refreshing touch and a strong visual anchor. 

A project of this scale could not ignore environmental considerations. 

We chose to repurpose some existing furniture and selected recycled pieces from French and European brands. Additionally, we ensured that materials used were recyclable, reducing environmental impact.  

From the start, we sought to minimize its carbon footprint. 

This eco-friendly approach allowed Sienna IM to make choices aligned with its values while achieving modern, functional offices.  

This project succeeded thanks to close collaboration with the client and the dedication of our workplace, interior architecture, furniture, and space design teams. Sienna IM trusted us and followed our recommendations, particularly on space optimization, design, and environmental choices.  

Through these synergies, we created a workplace that not only meets team needs but anticipates future challenges by transforming work habits.  

**With its new offices, the Group now has a powerful tool for projecting into the future: a space where every employee can thrive, where daily work is streamlined, and where every corner reflects the company’s identity. All while respecting deadlines and budget—a true challenge met!**

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Voodoo ups its game for corporate culture.

Voodoo, a French unicorn specialising in smartphone video games since 2013, has made an incredible ascent. It's been a real success story for the founders of this start-up, which is now the world leader in the 'hyper-casual' mobile games segment. With over 5 billion downloads and 300 million active users a month, the company is fast becoming one of the big names in gaming. With characteristic humility and against the grain of its motto, "We entertain the world", Voodoo has lived through its success discretely. 

Voodoo, a French unicorn specialising in smartphone video games since 2013, has made an incredible ascent

Beyond the qualities of its technical and creative productions, Voodoo's managerial mindset is in phase with new professional paradigms. Far from worrying about a shiny but misleading façade, the company has focused its efforts on the story it tells within its walls. With this in mind, Voodoo came to Factory, entrusting us with an internal development project dedicated to corporate culture, quality of life at work and productivity.

Voodoo makes space for its ambitions.

We needed to find a more spacious working environment, conducive to the free expansion of Voodoo, which had barely 100 employees when the project was launched. A property search for the ideal premises was the first step in accommodating 500 employees.

"Voodoo's ambition was to provide employees with productive workspaces, to parallel previous achievements and deliver new ideas."

After several months sharing a co-working space, Voodoo wanted to take flight and move into its own professional environment. 

The ultimate aim was to take over a high-capacity space. The ambition was to invest in a work base that was as tranquil as it was remarkable, a standard-bearer for its corporate values and a vector of collective pride. A place to match its ambitions, imbued with an atmosphere conducive to team synergy and creativity. 

### True to its status as a challenger, Voodoo did not want its head office to be a showcase for its success, but rather to design modular, functional premises.

Voodoo's ambition was to provide employees with a productive workspaces, to parallel previous achievements and deliver new ideas.

A playground as practical as it is iconic.

Nestled in a historic, Haussmann style building, this edifice is an architectural jewel of this Parisien district's heritage. Somewhere between exuberant and discrete, the heart of this incredible place is a central courtyard with a subdued atmosphere. A breath of timeless air, undetectable from the outside, lends a magic allure to this location that blends modernity and history.

No setting could have been more fitting for Voodoo than the Poste du Louvre, a landmark in the Parisian consciousness.

Imbued with the capital's industrial influence and history, the building was the perfect option to meet the Voodoo's aspirations for development. Firstly, it provided a practical solution in terms of capacity, and secondly, the emotional charge of the property added real soul to the head office. An architectural symbol as iconic as the company's status in the mobile gaming sector. 


### "An architectural symbol as iconic as the company's status in the mobile gaming sector."

Our mission didn't stop at finding the perfect place to house Voodoo's employees, the Factory team also had to come up with a creative concept to shape this diamond in the rough. To protect Voodoo HQ's finery and elevate its proud appearance, we imagined the layout of the premises inspired by the Japanese philosophy of "Wabi Sabi" - the art of living based on the complementarity and balance of Yin and Yang - as an invitation to celebrate the beauty of imperfection and of ephemeral, modest things.

Perfectly imperfect offices.

Our strategy was guided from the outset by several key objectives, including the design of spaces dedicated to creativity, and places to recharge one's batteries. Quality of life at work was a priority in our shared vision, so we designed spaces that inspire both performance and satisfaction.

The tenets of Wabi Sabi served as the foundation for all the project's architectural and decorative choices, with simplicity and minimalism as drivers in the design. 

"The tenets of Wabi Sabi served as the foundation for all the project's architectural and decorative choices."

Factory used its full creative flair to deliver the project with the same attention to detail and exacting standards that characterise Voodoo's own design projects. We deployed simple but first-rate materials, within a framework of beauty without fuss. Far from the excess and abundance of our time, we capitalised on the utilitarian function of furniture and decorative elements. No gadgets, just the essentials. The motto "less is more" perfectly reflects the mindset of the project and has guided our teams every step of the way.

### "The motto "less is more" perfectly reflects the mindset of the project and has guided our teams every step of the way."

The use of wood and the natural tones of beiges and browns, supported by raw, textured materials, allowed us to pay homage to the interactions between humankind and its environment. We didn't want to saturate the decor, or integrate other colours, so as not to distort an interior design that "stands on its own". 

Beyond the apparent minimalism, we wanted to give the space a reassuring, warm aura. The idea was to induce a feeling of well-being conducive to the creation of qualitative experiences in the workplace. A fine demonstration of Voodoo's managerial culture and values, through the lens its workspaces.

### "The greening of the spaces and the choice of materials with their natural abrasiveness have played a major role in creating a place shaped by nature."

Carpets provide softness and warm acoustics, while insulating boxes create spaces that feel like safe bubbles. Plants and the choice of materials with their natural rough edges have played a major role in the creation of a space shaped by nature: a subtle alternation between indoors and outdoors to offer employees a place to get away from it all. Open-spaces, hybrid places for relaxation and concentration, have been designed to allow people and ideas to circulate freely.

### "Adaptability was the key word in designing a space that embraces imperfection, while striving for impeccable quality."

This 9 month project was a constant balancing act. Adaptability was the key to designing a space that embraced imperfection, while striving for impeccable quality. 

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The energy to change the world.

A world-renowned player in the production and supply of energy, Total Energies is the world's 5th largest energy company, ranking alongside some of the biggest names in French industry. The group is constantly pushing back boundaries and setting ever higher standards, with its ambition of achieving carbon neutrality by 2050. 

It's an approach that's bold as it is vital under current environmental conditions. Reflecting the group's ambitions since its creation, this project represents a genuine revolution on both a human and industrial scale.

Total: building digital foundations for the future.

Digital transition, an increasingly important societal issue, is a major challenge to both the survival of brands and the sustainability of businesses. As prime contractor for the entire project, we rose to the spatial planning and architectural brief with the necessary rigour and expertise.

During the devastating, unprecedented pandemic of 2020, Total appealed to Factory to design the Total Digital Factory. 

Against a backdrop of far-reaching changes for Total, the idea was to design a polymorphous venue ready to accommodate a multiplicity of skills and professions in a dedicated hub in the heart of Paris. Ideally located in France's Silicon Valley, this nerve centre of digital transformation brings together developers, UX designers, data scientists, information system architects and many other specialised professions dedicated to the success of the project.

### "A dedicated hub in the heart of Paris, ready to welcome a multiplicity of skills and professions."

This is a workspace dedicated solely to collective intelligence, where agility and flexibility are the essential ingredients for uninhibited creativity. We faced two major challenges: on the one hand, we had to reconcile productivity and shortened decision-making processes to successfully incubate Total's projects. On the other, convincing and generating the support of external audiences to join this large-scale project, as a driving force in the digital transition.


Breaking down the walls of corporate tradition.

There was no question of embarking on a project of this scale without devising a tailor-made strategy. The key challenge for this project was to bring out the best of the site, despite the fact that it was not bespoke for the purpose. With a view to multi-sector recruitment, the early stages of the project were based on the expectation that the remaining 90% of the workforce would be recruited.

After a month of collaborative project workshops with the first employees of the Digital Factory, a conviction emerged that the conventions of the typical employer needed to be deconstructed. The aim was to develop a state of mind driven by innovation and unique to the Total Digital Factory. The result of this creative iteration between our teams and the Factory's future occupants, needed imperatively to be spacious, but no less conducive to team cohesion.

### "This creative iteration between our teams and the Factory's future occupants, needed imperatively to be spacious, but no less conducive to team cohesion."

We also wanted the professional spaces to subtly embody Total's DNA and values, without ostensibly displaying the brand. The layout and decoration, supported by a graphic and experiential storytelling, created a common thread running through the entire space. Factory's talented identity design team came up with a concept similar to a new brand, under the acronym TDF.


TDF, at the crossroads of a new reality.

So the technical world and the guidelines for digital ergonomics and interface design guided the decoration and signage of the space. The involvement of TDF employees in this project meant that together we could design a space that really met their day-to-day needs. At Factory, we're convinced that a positive user experience in the workplace has a measurable impact on the well-being and productivity of teams. That's exactly what made this design so special and so successful.

Naturally, the theme of digital transformation was an obvious one.

The cold materials and colours associated with technology have been softened by warmer details and tones. The idea was to create an indefinable space at the frontier of a new generation, dedicated solely to innovation and creativity. Ambitious as this large-scale transformation project was, we reinvented the digital elements with a hybrid approach. Digital works of art were used to represent the crossroads of the present and the future. This is particularly true of the screens in the entrance hall, an artistic installation that is also useful for bridging the gap between the project's different professions. Our experimental approach combined inspirations from the world of start-ups, hotel-restaurants  and new co-working concepts, all of which have given life to TDF's unique workspaces.

### "Ambitious as this large-scale transformation project was, we reinvented the digital elements with a hybrid approach."

With the perfectionism that characterises our teams, we designed the 5 floors of workspace down to the last millimetre, to turn TDF into an intelligent production tool. With the technical world and the theme of digital transition having been implemented, we couldn't envisage designing this project without incorporating Total's principal desire: to encourage collective intelligence. A catering area on the ground floor cleverly combines agile meeting rooms and convivial spaces. The rest of the space is designed to encourage new ways of working together, such as stand-up meetings and flexible offices. 

### "Make TDF an intelligent production tool".

TDF's spatial planning was designed to reflect its squad working protocol, making interaction essential to encouraging co-creation and productivity. Comfort, agility and team connectivity are therefore at the heart of the place's promise to TDF employees. A great challenge for the Factory teams and our client Total.


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