Intuit wanted to honor their employees with new workplace environments that support their strong culture and aspirational mission to power prosperity around the world.

The planning and geometry of the Marine Way Building, with 185,400 square feet on four floors, can be understood as low, wide, connected, and flexible — a strategy that addresses the specific programmatic and collaborative needs of Intuit's employees, reinforces campus patterns and cohesion, and creates interest along the street. The large floor plates, which accommodate a variety of places for people to collaborate, concentrate, socialize, and reflect, are organized into human-scaled neighborhoods and connected by clear circulation. A café, living rooms, bike facilities, showers, and terraces spin off of a highly visible atrium that welcomes up to 500 people at a time and opens out onto the campus's main internal street. The four-story main atrium space draws activity from the east and west sides of the campus and serves as the center of the MWB and the greater Intuit community.

Each landing and bleacher stair along the atrium connects directly to a large "living room" with pantry functions and generous inter-team collaborative workspace. In addition to more intimate breakout spaces like balconies and casual soft-furniture settings, which offer a range of work opportunities to encourage users to take advantage of the whole building, full workspace neighborhoods are located at the edge of the atrium. This variety of programmatic functions along the perimeter of the atrium helps generate a consistent buzz of activity throughout the workday.

Designed to embrace the mild climate of Mountain View's North Bayshore Area, the MWB connects to both nature and the public realm. Extensive terraces with views to the bay offer an indoor / outdoor workplace experience that fosters choice, authenticity, and wellbeing while helping to knit the campus together.

Photography: Jeremy Bittermann