profeta | royalty

Santa Fe Springs, CA
13,000 square feet

Matt Construction’s main goal in the design of their new
office was to create a clear separation of public and
private zones. The public zone, used by visiting clients
and subcontractors, include conference rooms and bid
rooms that surround the reception area. These rooms,
visually unified by a single floating ceiling plane, are
functionally divided by glass panels of varying opacity.
The private zone, used by the company for the activities
of everyday work, is kept isolated from the serenity of the
reception area. Designed by Stuart Royalty while at HLW
International, the space also uses color to help
distinguish public from private and calm from active. Raw
building materials were used throughout to create the
familiar and comforting atmosphere of a construction site.
The reception desk includes one-inch-thick steel plate
with the company logo plasma-cut into it.