TED Conferences
New York, New York

TED Conferences’ mission is to disseminate “ideas worth spreading.” The program included multiple meeting areas and open offices that would create a place where ideas and communication flow continuously and freely.

The traditional corporate office layout of rows and cubicles didn’t fit their mantra, so we took an unconventional approach that stepped outside these constraints. Essential systems that distribute data, media, lighting and communication were elevated to the ceiling plane via suspended steel channels which in turn, opened up the floor resulting in different forms of collaborative work spaces. The colorful coded graphic of the channel system is echoed below in various program areas. A conference room grew organically out of a windowed corner; its orientation allows for inclusion in the open office while a sliding wall closes the space for large private meetings. Smaller meetings spaces are inserted around the perimeter in corners and between work station spines. Editing suites and phone booths are isolated from the main space for acoustic control and confidentiality.