Do some 3D Modelling for an office refurbishment for a dynamic small non-profit

Status: Closed
Prize: $312
Entries Received: 13
Winner: lauraburlea

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Contest Brief

The Competition Project Brief:
We require interior and concept design work done for our new office space. This includes coming up with the following:
1. 3D Interior Design drawings for each of areas (Main working areas, Meeting rooms, board room, kitchen, breakout areas, reception)
2. 2D / 3D floor plan with furniture/features/fittings and approximate dimensions of the spaces
3. Feature Details where necessary

Each of these must be developed keeping in mind the detailed requirements and constraints outlined as we have limited budget and would like to re-use our existing furniture.

Refer to the briefing document for detailed requirements.

Who we are
Social Ventures Australia (SVA) is a small not-for-profit organisation.

SVA works to ensure people most in need have a better future. We do this by providing funding, investment and advice to organisations, investors and funders working in the social purpose sector.

Venture philanthropy sits at the heart of our work. We identify organisations delivering innovative and highly effective programs and approaches to social problems, and support them with funding, investment and business advice and funding so that they grow in scale and many more people benefit from these solutions.

Our work focusses on the key levers to overcoming disadvantage;
• Education
• Employment
• Housing and
• Health.

What’s changed
We are in the process of signing a new 3 year lease in our current property. We would like to use this opportunity to reenergise the office culture and attract talent. We are looking for something that is professional, modern and collaborative, yet cost-effective for a small not-for-profit. We are looking for something which is inviting for creative minds and encourages cooperation across multiple teams. Our vision is for an office where professional services firm meets dynamic start-up.

All staff are currently seated in designated open-plan desks (CEO and management team included). We would like to move to activity-based working. We would like to vary desk styles and arrangements to distinguish zones within the office.

We already have branding and a logo that you can view on our website (www.socialventures.com.au), which does not need changing. We have an extensive photo library that can be used. Examples are on our website.

The property:
The office space is about 350m2 and includes a reception, 1 boardroom (Drayton), 5 meeting rooms (Kirsch, Clarke, Yunus, Skoll and Lawrence), 2 small phone booth rooms, a stationery utilities room, a galley kitchen and open plan for work stations. The office is situated on the sixth floor and brandishes large windows to provide reasonable natural light on two sides.

Please refer to the additional documents for plans and photos.

- Refer to Current floor plan and see sticky notes for labels of spaces
- Refer to Existing space for photos of existing fit-out
- Refer to Existing furniture for photos of existing furniture

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“@lauraburlea won the contest on 22 March 2015”

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Public Clarification Board

archiact
- 9 years ago
Hi Suzi, you said that you want low cost design, and that is your budget in problem but the wining design is more than low cost. Prints and RGB painting your walls are not in the same amount of money.You just should be more precise with budget.
- 9 years ago
archiact
- 9 years ago
Hi Suzi there are two days untill the end of the contest, do you have some coments about proposals? Best regards.
- 9 years ago
lauraburlea
- 9 years ago
Hello, do you have any news on the status of the contest ? Regards, Laura.
- 9 years ago
SDBcIndia
- 9 years ago
Please extend the contest if you want some more good ideas.
- 9 years ago
1. SDBcIndia
  - 9 years ago
  I am want to submit but, not yet completed.
  - 9 years ago
MDima
- 9 years ago
Just to inform you. I will submit my entry in the next 20 hours until the contest time ends. Thnks.
- 9 years ago
cecioconor
- 9 years ago
Hello! In your brief you require to keep the IT service racks in current location. I just can't find them in the floor plan. Can you show me please?
- 9 years ago
1. Contest Holder
  - 9 years ago
  Hi cecioconor. Thank you for joining the contest and we're looking forward to seeing your ideas! Good question about the IT service racks. They are currently located next to the little phone booths/storage rooms as you walk in the door from reception and turn right. On the floor plan they are two little squares with a diagonal line across them. In the existing photos they are shown in the photo labelled "Hallway 2". I hope that's clear. Let me know if you need further clarification.
  - 9 years ago
cecioconor
- 9 years ago
Nice brief! Working on the project and hoping to get in time!
- 9 years ago
MDima
- 9 years ago
Thank you for such a detailed brief. I don't have questions yet. Anyway, I'll contact with you, if there any difficulties in the process.
- 9 years ago
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1. Contest Holder
  - 9 years ago
  Hi archiact. A touch down zone is a place for people to work just for a few hours at a time. The spaces don't have screens, keyboards, mice or phones. But they would have power so they could use their laptops. They can talk on their mobile phones and to each other. We have several people who travel from other offices and need somewhere to work for a few hours but not all day. The Connect zone at the moment is all normal work stations and we would like to change some of it to a touch down zone. The problems with the zones at he moment is that we have too many fixed normal workstations and the utilisation is below 50%. So half of them are empty every day. We want to reduce the number of normal work stations so we can have some different types of work spaces. I hope that helps!
  - 9 years ago
2. archiact
  - 9 years ago
  Thank you for explanation, now is more clearly what is the problem with open plan workstations.
  - 9 years ago
abhishek715
- 9 years ago
We are stationed in Mumbai India and are professionals since 7yrs. We specialise in Residential, Commercial and Public Spaces. We believe in following timelines and quality.
- 9 years ago
abhishek715
- 9 years ago
We are stationed in Mumbai India and are professionals since 7yrs. We specialise in Residential, Commercial and Public Spaces. We believe in following timelines and quality.
- 9 years ago
Contest Holder
- 9 years ago
We are starting to get some ideas in. It would be great to see some 2D floor plans so we can start to see what the vision for how the work spaces and the meeting rooms all come together.
- 9 years ago
Contest Holder
- 9 years ago
To all the Freelancers,
Meeting Rooms - in the meeting rooms we are looking for a few creative details and colours to make these spaces feel fresh and collaborative. But we are not planning to make really major changes to the furniture or anything else.
Working Spaces - this is where we are open to making bigger changes. We'd like to consider removing some of the existing work stations and creating a quiet zone, a touchdown zone, a breakout area and some locker storage. This is the part we are most interested in, so we encourage you to focus your creative ideas more around the work spaces than around the meeting rooms.

Good luck!
- 9 years ago
abhiman1985
- 9 years ago
I can provide you with a design. However, would you be able to extend the deadline?
- 9 years ago
1. Contest Holder
  - 9 years ago
  Hi Abhiman1985. We have extended the deadline by a few days. We look forward to seeing your ideas!
  - 9 years ago
NamrataT
- 9 years ago
You have done a great job with project description. I would love to work on it. But I will need some more time on this say like 10 days.
- 9 years ago
1. Contest Holder
  - 9 years ago
  Hi NamrataT. Thanks for joining this contest. We have taken on board your feedback and extended the contest for another few days. We're looking forward to seeing your ideas. Good luck!
  - 9 years ago
Aleksandr1978
- 9 years ago
Where to send the visualization of the office?
- 9 years ago
1. archiact
  - 9 years ago
  Join contest-I want to submit-Upload.
  - 9 years ago
2. Contest Holder
  - 9 years ago
  Thanks Archiact for helping Aleksandr1978. Aleksandr1978 - let me know if you have any trouble with submitting and thank you for joining the contest. We're looking forward to seeing your ideas!
  - 9 years ago
archiact
- 9 years ago
Hi, can you seal the contest, please?Do you want to keep all your furniture or you can change some for more interesting (except desks which you mentioned)? Why did you marked empty spaces?
- 9 years ago
1. Contest Holder
  - 9 years ago
  Hi Archiact. Yes. I am upgrading the contest to a sealed contest. Thanks for the tip. We would like to re-use as much of our furniture as possible, but we can change some of it for more interesting. Unfortunately, the drawings aren't all up-to-date, so I've marked the empty spaces with the names of those meeting rooms (for example, Clarke, Lawrence). You will see in the photos of the existing spaces that those rooms now have tables and chairs in them. Let me know if you have further questions. Thank you so much for joining the contest and we're looking forward to seeing your ideas!
  - 9 years ago
Contest Holder
- 9 years ago
Hi Abhiman. We might be able to extend the deadline, but I'm not sure at this stage. Perhaps you could submit some rough ideas or a partial design by the deadline?
- 9 years ago
Contest Holder
- 9 years ago
Please note that the area on the left-hand side of the current floor plan (labelled Existing Workstations and has 8 workstations) is NOT IN SCOPE. This area is sub-leased to another organisation and is not to be included in the design.
- 9 years ago