The CIVIS offices tell the company’s story
Graphic and interior design project for the CIVIS Spa offices
Client: CIVIS Spa, Milan
CIVIS is a private security company that has been offering integrated security solutions for over 50 years, designed around the needs of individuals, businesses and institutions. The company had just opened its new Milan offices in Via Arona and asked us to work on the spaces, enhancing them and fitting them out with elements consistent with the brand’s visual identity, to create an even stronger sense of belonging.
To meet this need we designed interventions in several areas, following every phase of the work: planning, creative development and production of the graphic materials, coordination of production and installation. Working closely with the client throughout allowed us to identify the historical material available to bring out the company culture.
The entrance features a giant wall photograph, a historical image of the company that also shows its founder. And it is from the entrance that the red thread starts, running along all the large glass walls that define the space, the meeting rooms and the offices.
The large, bright courtyard, the centre of gravity of the space and visible from the entrance, also used for relaxing and for events, is dominated by the CIVIS logotype in red neon tubes, surrounded by evergreen plants and a vintage red Fiat 500 in the company’s historic livery.
In the training room, where security guards are trained, the walls convey the company’s values, with the aim of strengthening the company culture and the sense of belonging.
The meeting room, used for internal meetings and with clients, becomes the place where the company’s long history is told. One wall illustrates its main milestones, decade by decade, and, with several levels of reading, explores the goals achieved over time, so that it can be understood both from a distance and up close.
On the opposite wall the story becomes photographic, through some of the most significant pictures from the company’s history and its territorial expansion.
A project to enhance the company offices by bringing in the brand identity, which is about more than aesthetics, with the aim of:
• increasing employee engagement;
• promoting a stronger company culture;
• conveying the company’s values to clients as well;
• giving the spaces a memorable character.
