Codelab & Umlaut office, Poland

The Codelab and Umlaut companies, in their Szczecin office, work primarily with clients from the automotive industry. The software they create helps automotive technology to work perfectly, allowing you to enjoy the best while driving – speed, a sense of freedom and readiness to explore new places. While designing their office in Poland, designers MIXD made sure that the experience of the work space is as pleasant as a journey in a comfortable car.

The leitmotif of the space is travel and everything associated with it – gas stations, roadside bars, beaches, camping and tourist routes. The journey starts at the reception, where you are greeted by a Fiat 500 retro. This iconic car is the ancestor of tens of millions of modern cars, which today use software written in Codelab. The next stage in the office trip is the Gas Station, and one of the common areas is where the battery is charged for work with a cup of coffee. Right next to it is the cafeteria, inspired by American roadside drive-in bars. The last part of the common area is the Beach, devoted to rest and co-working. These centrally located common spaces can integrate a crew of almost 300 as well as keep work areas calm.

There are also three different zones – a cosy, intimate Home Office, an elegant Car Interior, and a raw, minimalist, corporate style Loft. In the entire 3,000 square meters of space, cars and technology appear intermittently in the form of toys, motifs from Takie Pany murals, or on a children’s carpet, coding motifs, old school slot machines, pixelated graphics, vinyls and music posters. The space is eclectic and diverse, and each common area and work zone is different, both in terms of colours and the materials used.