A Pharmaceutical Office Design Takes Visitors on a Journey Through Senses

Sanofi is a company dedicated to human health with a diversified portfolio of innovative solutions that respond to the needs of the population. It transforms scientific innovation into solutions for wellbeing.

One of the most difficult challenges facing the world today is to improve health. As a global biopharmaceutical company, Sanofi, driven by scientific innovation, renews and expands its offices, taking advantage of its great global commitment focused on continuous improvement.

The project is developed in 3 levels with key spaces strategically distributed through a route that connects the different stages of human life, understanding that architectural design creates memorable experiences in matter and time with points of connection through the senses. Starting with the reception, the playful heart of this organization, continuing through the innovation lab that inspires new ways of working, following through with the open area that encourages productivity and high performance, including the large dining room as a cozy interior patio that promotes friendship, relaxation and freedom of assembly.

Sanofi is a sustainable, flexible, inspiring and innovative organisation. The five senses are expressed in the textures, 3D finishes, interactive walls, colour applications, smell and acoustics in various areas. Space is experienced as the time is experienced, seeking to associate the world of sound, vision, colour and form in figures and volumes.

The finishes were very significant in the project. Combining them in a complementary way – wood, marble, carpets, glass, murals and furniture – helped accentuate the character of each stage. In general, neutral colours predominate throughout the project with some key colour accents on walls, columns and carpets, where bright tones were used according to a chromatic palette that unifies the image and reinforces the identity of its values. The flow of reality is structured by overcoming the barriers of the common, functional and habitual, creating well-lit spaces designed to increase productivity and that celebrate comfort and versatility.

The use of brand identifiers throughout the spaces – built through murals made by a great Mexican artist, furniture with artisan manufacturing techniques and symbology inspired by indigenous cultures – seek to honour Mexico’s rich natural heritage, from the Tarahumaras in Chihuahua to the Mayans in the Yucatan Peninsula.

Mexico is a tapestry of ancestral villages with unique visions, customs and aesthetic values. Taking patterns, textiles, colours and techniques from these tribes as inspiration, created a rich design language to sustain the connection. Death has meant, ever since ancient times, transformation, an opportunity to be reborn. The concept of life after death is also honoured in this great architectural space. Architecture allows us to perceive and understand the dialectic of permanence and change to establish ourselves in the world and ally with culture and time.