Upfield Office The Attic, Rotterdam Interior, Netherlands Building Photos, Dutch Architecture
The Attic Office in Rotterdam
25 Sep 2020
The Attic Office
Architecture: JDWA
Location: Nassaukade, 3071 JL Rotterdam, NL

The Dutch office JDWA (Johan de Wachter Architecten) has won an Architizer A + Award with the transformation of a large unused attic into a sustainable, dynamic, and contemporary working environment for Upfield with The Attic.

Unilever has split off the margarine and spread department that will continue as an independent company called Upfield. The new company will bring together all its Rotterdam activities on one site. Offices, Research & Development, Logistics and production will take place in one building complex. The ground floors of the site are in use as factories for different products, logistics areas and warehouses. The upper floors are unused or underused. In this project JDWA investigated how and which building parts could be reused for the new office and meeting programs. Two projects are realized up till now: the Becelhuis(2018) and the Attic & Villa(2019).
New Way Of Working

All interventions represent the companies ambition to work differently. Next to a large number of workstations, different types of formal and informal meeting rooms are realized. Because of the special kind of work Upfield does, also kitchens and tasting counters are part of the program. The aim was to create a creative and dynamic workspace by activating the sta...