Luminaire: BionicPro Series

Miniature Illumination

Montroy DeMarco Architecture featured our Pru1 direct/indirect, Gaze Round Soft Edge and BionicPro2 Linear for wall grazing throughout The Publicis Groupe’s offices.

The Publicis Groupe’s goal was to create an interactive office space that focused heavily on collaboration and a flexible work environment.  MDA had to design a space that was not only engaging for a post-pandemic return to the office but supported a new model of hot desking and flexible seating assignments.  MDA achieved this by mapping out a floor plan that deviated from a static environment of offices and cube workstations to a dynamic plan of lounge collaboration seating, plethora of meeting rooms in varying sizes from 30+ person war-rooms to intimate two-person meeting rooms.  Each internal agency has a dedicated space on the wings of the building, with large open areas of hot desking, soft seating collaboration areas, meeting rooms, and a centralized oversized pantry and adjacent town hall cafe.  It was important to keep a sense of culture and the energy that is crucial to each agency’s creativity.  A smaller footprint but denser headcount required thoughtful solutions in a built space, such as furniture solutions that are fluid and moveable.

In Like a Lion.

Thin lines of seamless light with our BionicPro2 Linear and Recessed.

Architecture and interior design services for the renovation of an existing building into a 12,883 SF leadership center. The renovation doubled the square footage of the building expanding the footprint into the neighboring surface parking lot, and navigating parking requirements by utilizing the adjacent hospital’s campus-wide parking to meet the needs of the building. The General Lyon Leadership Center features a workplace for hospital leaders that fosters productivity and collaboration and prioritizes the well-being of occupants. The center includes offices, break spaces, and meeting rooms that convert into event spaces, as well as a fitness center.

Natural Light.

For more than two decades, Carl M. Freeman Companies had occupied the same Rockville, MD office space. However, they recognized that this environment had become antiquated and no longer resonated with their identity or future aspirations. Collaborating closely with the client, the design team crafted an office environment that not only highlighted their branding and identity but also seamlessly integrated abundant natural light. Carl M. Freeman Companies relocated to a 9,800 square foot contemporary office space situated within the emerging Pike and Rose development in Bethesda, MD. The reception area’s layout was carefully orchestrated to revolve around the original Ansel Adam’s photograph, ensuring its optimal presentation while also providing stunning panoramic views. The office hub functions as a versatile zone where staff can collaborate, relax, and dine throughout the day. With its spectacular vistas and ample natural light, this space also features a dedicated mini putting green for employees to refine their golf swings. Overall, the new space cultivates a welcoming and cozy atmosphere, while radiating sophistication through its distinctive touches and art installations spread across the office.

BionicPro2 Perimeter Wall Grazer and Linear photos featured.

Bright and Bold.

G|M Business Interiors partnered with design and architecture firm IDS Group to design a bright and bold environment for the County of Orange’s new El Toro Library located in Lake Forest. Dramatic high wood ceilings add texture and pair with flowing blue hues and a large mountain graphic creating an inviting and nurturing place to explore and thrive. A large pillar in the center of the library includes an inspired structure, acting as a focal point in the space.

Seamless Design.

Clean, seamless lines of light with BionicPro recessed and perimeter.  Perimeter Fill distribution in the corridors. P9200s beautifully integrated into a stunning wood ceiling. DBI is celebrating their 50th anniversary and they certainly have set the design bar quite high.
DBI is inspired by the spark—that vivid and powerful moment when a client’s needs and a designer’s vision coalesce into one cohesive design strategy. Their designers’ enthusiasm and expertise ensure that this strategy is implemented in the best possible way, developing client spaces of unparalleled functionality and sophistication.
New construction of a 450,000 square foot government agency office building that will be a technically state-of-the-art facility and provide cutting edge resources for the agency’s mission.

The Center of the Universe.

Conceived to inspire and maximize human potential, The St. James is a complete sports, wellness, lifestyle and active entertainment destination. The client challenged the design team to develop this flagship facility to be “the center of the universe,” focused on bringing high-performance training and wellness to the community of Washington, D.C. This included a broad variety of sports, wellness, nutrition, play and retail programs.

It’s All a Simulation.

BionicPro4 and P9200’s illuminate Mount Sinai. The surgical simulation center provides trainee surgeons a platform to practice and perfect their surgical skills while being evaluated.

SIM center is located in the old gymnasium of Mount Sinai nursing school dormitory and takes advantage of the available high ceiling space.

Facility has one fully equipped mock operating room, 2 flexible training rooms, state of the art conference space, control booth and storage space for simulation equipment. All rooms are equipped with multiple large screen monitors, video cameras, audio microphones and 4k video/ audio upstream-downstream capabilities. Light fixtures are programmed to change colors and dimming for specialized surgical simulations.

Rooms are separated using foldable glass partitions to provide maximum flexible layout configurations and to accommodate needs of multiple medical specialties.  IT infrastructure is designed and installed to provide maximum flexibility to accommodate different kinds of medical simulators including Da Vinci Robotic Surgical System.

The Story of Ancestry.

The story of Ancestry itself is a tale of family, genealogy, migration, and attention to detail. To create the company’s ideal space, Rapt Studios brought all those components together, turning abstract ideas into something you can touch, see, and feel. That meant making sure the space felt like home for both the young, agile tech side of things and Ancestry’s longtime employees—self-described “crusty book nerds” who’ve been there for nearly four decades. Throughout the building, you can find portraits of senior employees paired with archival photographs of their relatives found through the website. It shows firsthand how historical imagery gets personal in context.

Truly Multi-Educational.

Snap Flair brightens up the cafeteria — a highly efficient luminaire with ideal distribution for large spaces – a wide direct throw with a splash of indirect to lightly wash ceilings in light… while our Bionic Linear illuminates a cheerful multipurpose space for younger students.

Architectural Resources, Inc. (ARI) and Warroad teamed up to successfully pass a $16 million-dollar bond referendum in May of 2016, and immediately began construction on the elementary renovation. ARI worked closely with the District and Facility Task Force to develop a plan that provided 8 additional classrooms for the early learners, improvements to indoor air quality, technology, building envelope, and student learning spaces. The elementary renovation was completed in September of 2017 and the project continued through two more phases, respectively: The Early Learner’s Addition and High School Renovation. The project was completed in the fall of 2018

Art Technology.

AAI, a NELSON brand, has designed the offices of auto manufacturing company Sokon/SF Motors, located in Santa Clara, California.Based in Chongqing, Sokon is one of China’s largest auto manufacturers. AAI recently completed the design of Sokon’s three-story 80,000-SF US headquarters.

Vying for Silicon Valley’s top talent, Sokon required a world-class building with an innovative look and state of the art technology. Sokon’s new US home uses crisp white spaces with bold accents of blue, red and yellow, and natural oak throughout and is a representation of the Sokon brand.

The first floor customer area includes an automobile showroom, lobby and meeting rooms. The lobby features custom metal panels, cascading circular light fixtures, leather furniture, custom area rugs over polished concrete floors, and large video displays. This floor also holds the café/all-hands spaces, training rooms, game and fitness rooms. An expansive outdoor dining area extends from the café.

The second floor holds engineering workspaces, labs, conference and open collaborative spaces accented with sculptural plywood screens. All employees benefit from sit-stand work surfaces.

The third floor contains the executive suite which includes the board room, negotiation room, executive dining room and break-out reception areas. Natural walnut furniture, millwork and wood ceilings paired with leather furniture, give the executive area a refined and more traditional aesthetic.

The layout for the headquarters was planned to infuse natural light throughout. Glass office and conference room walls, open ceilings, and benching workstations distributed along the window line bring brightness and vitality to this hub of automotive research and technology.