Table 2. Summarised Amazon Spheres Building design features aiming to enhance the well-being and productivity of their employees: Author.
Design features | Additional detail |
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Plant wall | The largest indoor living wall in the country is around 19m tall and 15m wide and hosts 25k individual plants. The building hosts 40k different varieties of plants (700 plant species). 31 |
Flexible seating | Variety of seating areas and open spaces. |
Different Meeting rooms settings | Open and closed meeting areas. Canopy walls for walking meetings. Conference room surrounded by vines for privacy (AKA the bird cage). |
Circadian solution | Lights stimulating daylight. |
Flexible workplace | Places intended to create different working environments. |
Curtain wall | The Spheres’ Catalans support 2,643 panes of glass; the outside structure was intended to look like vines or spider webs. |
City view | A ring path circles inside the building, looking out to the city so employees can get the best of both worlds. The fourth floor is under the sky and has a 360-degree city view. |
Natural Light | Court, skylight. |
Eateries | Cafes and breakrooms. |