Photography: Benny Chan with Fotoworks
HGA Architects and Engineers have designed the newest headquarters for software company RealPage, located in Dallas, Texas.
RealPage, launched in 1998, tasked HGA San Francisco with consolidating more than 2,000 employees often siloed at four disparate locations into one +400,000 square foot location – four floors of an existing low-rise office building, plus one floor in an adjacent mid-rise building – and creating a cohesive workplace culture through design.
In response, the HGA San Francisco team – led by Melissa Pesci, AIA LEED AP, who had previously worked on other RealPage offices – designed the new headquarters at the human level. The design is centered around encouraging the employees to interact and engage with people outside of their departments or teams as well as in a variety of ways. The large floor plates on each of the four floors of the existing low-rise building were broken up into “neighborhoods” – hubs comprising workstations, private focus rooms, private offices that are adjacent to a coffee bar, as well as collaboration spaces in both common areas and private rooms. Each neighborhood features a distinct color palette to identify departments and functions.
