SDI began working with tech start-up Integrate AI in 2017. The company was founded by Facebook/Instagram alumnus and serial entrepreneur Steve Irvine, and “helps traditional consumer enterprises become as customer-centric as Amazon”. They were made up of only 10 staff working from a WeWork space when they began their partnership with SDI.

Integrate AI knew they would eventually require their full 17,000 square foot floor, but began initially with 8,000 square feet in a downtown Toronto office building. SDI provided our expertise in work styles and design of tech spaces to help them determine their programmatic requirements for the space, and advised on how to integrate their branding into the overall working environment. In addition to open work areas for staff, numerous 1-on-1 rooms and phone booths are provided to minimize overall disruptions. In addition, a “library” with an emphasis on heads down focus was created for those who need respite from the office hubbub. In addition to numerous meeting spaces, a large open café/ town hall space is a hub for the overall office and comes complete with its own “Comedy Central” inspired stage.

The space retains an open ceiling throughout, adding volume and luminance. A perimeter soffit mediates the space’s height at the windows and provides a continuous linking element throughout the floor. Natural materials including wood are introduced throughout the space on floors, wall surfaces, and ceilings, including the welcoming canopy and backdrop in the reception area. Colours from Integrate’s branding package appear prominently throughout the space, for instance in carpets and tiles and on chairs, and the company logo forms a feature element on the ceiling of the boardroom.

Knowing that they would eventually occupy the entire floor, Integrate AI was able to put their mark on the elevator lobby. SDI designed the space to balance human hominess with a sci-fi vibe by introducing wood to the floors and waving ceiling planes, and mosaic floor tiles (in the corporate colours) contrasted with deep black walls and elevator doors, featuring reflective back-painted glass. It warms our hearts knowing that since occupying the space the client has covered the black walls in hand-written mathematical formulae!

SDI is now working with Integrate AI to complete the design and fit-up of the remainder of the floor.

Material Used :
1. Flooring - Carpet – Interface – Online - Pepper
2. Carpet – Interface – Touches and Tones - Moss
3. Carpet – Human Connections/Stone Course - Greenstone
4. Carpet – Human Connections/Rue - Green
5. Carpet – Human Connections/Stone Course – Yellow/stone
6. Carpet – Human Connections/Rue - Yellow
7. Carpet – Human Connections/Stone Course – Red/Stone
8. Carpet – Human Connections/Rue - Red
9. Carpet – Human Connections/Stone Course – Purple/Stone
10. Carpet – Human Connections/Rue - Purple
11. Carpet – Human Connections/Stone Course – Teal/Stone
12. Carpet – Human Connections/Rue - Teal
13. Carpet – Astroturf – By Contractor
14. Carpet – Interface Flor – Super Flor - Anthracite
15. Luxury Vinyl Tile – Interace – Level Set – Ash Walnut
16. Flooring – Base – Carpet Base – Interface - Pepper
17. Flooring – Base – Carpet Base – Interface – Human Connections/Stone Course – Green/Stone 
18. Flooring – Base – Carpet Base – Interface – Human Connections/Stone Course – Yellow/Stone
19. Flooring – Base – Carpet Base – Interface – Human Connections/Stone Course – Red/Stone
20. Flooring – Base – Carpet Base – Interface – Human Connections/Stone Course – Purple/Stone
21. Flooring – Base – Super Flor Base – Interface – Human Connections/Stone Course – Teal/Stone
22. Flooring – Base – MDF Base – By Contractor – to match wall paint
23. Flooring Transtions – Level Transition – Schulter Systems – Schiene-ACB
24. Flooring Transitions – Sloped Transition - Schulter Sstems – Reno-U
25. Walls – Paint – Benjamin Moore – Eggshell – White Dove
26. Walls – Paint – Benjamin Moore – Eggshel – Jet Black
27. Walls – Wallcovering – Ezo Bord – Silver Grey
28. Walls – Wood – Veneer by Contractor – White Oak
29. Walls – Glass – By Contractor – White Dove
30. Walls – Clarus – Lime 
31. Walls – Clarus – Pop Teal
32. Walls – Tile – Centura – Onyx Collection – Hex Natureglass Turquoise
33. Walls – Tile – Olympia – Kiko Series - Nero
34. Millwork – Plastic Laminate – Formica – Infiniti Finish -090-An-Black
35. Millwork – Stone – Casarstone - Raven
36. Glazing – Film – 3M Convenince Group Inc. – Dusted Crystal - White
37. Glazing– Film – 3M Convenince Group Inc. – Dusted Crystal - White