NXP Semiconductors is a global player in the semiconductor industry, with its headqueaters and research center located at the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven. The organization faces an important challenge: how to accomodate a workplace for a diverse group of more than 1.100 employees including R&D, corporate, and IT-teams in a way that strengthens collaboration, accelerates innovation, and optimizes space utalization.
At the same time, NXP wanted to transition from a traditional, enclosed office environment towards a modern workplace that reflects the changing way of working centered around flexibility, collaboration, technology and user experience.
Hollandse Nieuwe and Veldhoen+Company joined forces to take on this challenge. In just six months, they developed a research- and data-driven workplace version. User group typologies, user interviews, and co-creation sessions, formed the basis of our design process. The project was completed 15 months after the start of these activities.
The new NXP headquarters covers 12.500 m² across two buildings (HTC 60 and HTC 91), representing a reduction of 5.000 m² compered to the previous footprint.
The environment is designed according to the principles of activity-based working, tailored to the three defined work typologies (research/corporate/digital). Employees can now choose where and how they work, depending on their tasks, with zones for focus, collaboration, meetings, and social interaction.
The strenght of the design is especially visible in the renewed atrium. What was once a closed-off heart of the building has been tranformed into an inviting meeting place where technology, people, and brand come together. With clever interventions such as a light poured floor, a visible coffee bar, an open reception area, and a colourful dichroic elevator shaft, a space has been created that welcomes, energizes, and surprises both visitors and employees. The coffee bar, the pantries on the higher floors, the showroom, and informal seating areas turn the atrium into a lively hub of the organization.
Despite the short project timeline, a sustainable design was realized. As many materials and components as possible were reused: partion walls, ceilings, and furniture were given a second life in the new environment. Where new materials were needed, circular of biobased alternatives were choosen.
This case demonstrates how strategy and design can reinforce and accelarate one another when they are truly integrated. We are proud of:
- the clear, data-driven decisions that were made;
- the integration of diverse user needs into one overarching concept;
- the fact that an organization like NXP not only renewed its building but also created an environment that enables departments to collaborate more as one system, driven innovation.
