Visma Software Offices – Krakow
The design of the Visma offices has a refined Scandinavian aesthetic while maintaining a true sense of originality for the software company’s Polish location in Krakow.
The Design Group was tasked with completing a dynamic space for the Visma Software offices at their location in Krakow, Poland. Brightness, simplicity, minimalism, and a pinch of refined aesthetics – the easiest way to portray the Scandinavian interior design. The new office of the Polish branch of the Visma brand has also been arranged following this theme, with as many Scandinavian inspirations as there are original variations of them.
Visma is a Norwegian company delivering software and digital services for business, with over 200 offices around the world, including Poland. The Visma Software office is based in the new High5ive office complex in Krakow. Norwegian Visma has nearly perfectly mastered consistent communication of its activities, with their own product design language called Nordic Cool – describing Visma’s approach in three words: clear, refined, and reduced. Nordic Cool has become the main principle organizing the layout of the Krakow office, which spans nearly 1500 m2 of mainly open space, plus three offices, one shared room for up to five people, three conference rooms, and a chill out room. Each of the rooms is named after one of the solar system planets, following the investor’s idea.
The power of the original solutions resonates already in the desk arrangement. The counter, decorated with glass reinforced with black mesh, catches the eye. Just above it, there is a spectacular „circle” lighting selected to match the recurring interior shapes. At the reception desk, there are also elements made of architectural concrete and the so-called living walls.
Still, the impressive glazing separating subsequent zones of space remains the highlight of the Krakow office. The glass walls resembling stained-glass windows feature grey muntin bars; those as well as the glass-wooden decorative panels on the walls refer by their shape to the Visma logo. There are zero-and-one strings on some of them – an obvious reference to the binary system, the basis of the programming code. These specific decorations made of numbers are an original concept by The Design Group. The whole arrangement is crowned by a gray ceiling making the design timeless, with direct references to Norway through photo wallpapers with a calm, mountainous tenor.
