Khatib & Alami (K&A) designed the King Salman
Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSHARC) in Saudi Arabia as a new
work of architecture that employs simple, transparent, minimalist
volumes set into the landscape; a design language that best reflects
the Center’s integrity in funding and coordinating international
relief to crisis-afflicted communities.
It also meets the organization's vision for a workplace that drives
efficiency, enhances the capability to fast adaptation to change,
enables access to people, information and amenities, and provides a
safe, healthy and secure working environment.
An agile co-working environment that adds a sense of purposeful
design. To accommodate an evolving economy, today's workforce is
interactive, agile, connected and cooperative. The increasing rapid
impact of technology is changing the way organizations function, how
their people work and the places where they do business.
Workplace designs are concepts that K&A is embracing with dedicated
teams committed to future-casting their client’s workplaces, shaping
in turn their similar groups’ requirements as well as divergent
individual needs.
As the architect and lead consultant, K&A designed the Center with
an open plan space concept rather than a traditional day-to-day desk
or cubicle approach. This agile co-working space is flexible,
requiring little if any, long-term commitment, in integrating new
technologies. It fosters a sense of community and co-working
neighborhood with layouts and areas specifically tailored towards
encouraging conversation or privacy as needed.
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