Where is arup headquarters

For its new headquarters in Belfast, the Arup Group has purchased an entire floor of Bedford House, a prestigious building in the city centre.

To be more precise, the owner did not simply sell an empty space, but rather offered Arup the opportunity to create a made-to-measure space, specifically designed and fitted out to meet its own requirements.

The lighting system has been created with particular care as lighting is one of the design services provided by Arup and its offices are therefore an example of its own planning and design skills.

The environment's bright and lively atmosphere has been created by Chroma Lighting in close collaboration with Arup Engineers, Jan Madill, the architect with whom the owner of the building has a long-standing relationship and the Dowds Group Electrical Contractors. Most of the offices are lit with modular mm recessed luminaires that provide the general lighting. In certain common areas decorative pendant luminaires have been installed, whereas the coffee break zones are lit with Deep Laser recessed luminaires.

Underscore and Laser Blade systems have been used for the meeting rooms whereas the linear devices used for general lighting have been inserted between the wooden slats that decorate the area in which the Group's construction services are presented, as this is a particularly important aspect of Arup's work.

Another meticulously designed detail is the way Underscore aluminium tracks have been inserted between slats of wood of the same width for the ceilings in certain transit areas. Underscore devices have also been fitted in other transit zones with concrete ceilings. Executing a new workplace of this size and scale became a highly collaborative effort, with Arup leadership and staff deeply engaged with SmithGroup in the visioning and decision-making process.

Organized around a central open stair, the three-story workplace promotes creativity, inclusivity and wellness. It features an award-winning circadian lighting system, a light shelf, bold use of color, and graphics evocative of nature and technology. At the dense and closed end of the system the structure of the building performs like a stack of bottles. As these closed rooms separate the loads are more and more taken up by a series of structural curtains.

Here the section shows the alternation of meeting bubbles and open office accommodation occupying the space between the bubbles. Then as the bubbles fold the structural curtains screen rather than enclose the respective territories. All along the meshwork these curtains are stretched and deformed in response to the meeting rooms caught in its net.

These deformations constitute a form of information that radiates through the mesh announcing the distribution of meeting rooms in both internal and external facades.

The project was researching through the following areas of research: structure of the company The client was Arup and the site a city block in Central London. It is a research of new office space — corporate environments. Several divisions and departments form a very complex structure.