Hilltop Holdings, a Texas-based, diversified financial services company, needed to renovate its outdated and nonfunctional eighth-floor office space. Leadership embraced the opportunity to create an efficient workplace by reimaging a more vibrant environment in a practical layout that accommodates nine departments. Each department has unique working systems and space requirements that needed to be met while fostering a collaborative environment.
The new space provides staff with 89 private offices, 188 workstations, 9 conference rooms, and 7 collaboration spaces. Each department has both open and private offices as well as conference rooms and secure storage. The team achieved a sense of openness by incorporating glass walls in the reception area and conference rooms. Each conference room has privacy film on glass walls and fabric-wrapped acoustical to ensure that design and workplace standards are maintained, an executive project committee finalized decisions with user input from the nine separate departments. The new design implements private office spaces and shared resources at the core to allow an open office environment with exterior views allowing the distribution of desirable daylight.