Confidential Company: Color-Driven Offices That Spark Bold Teamwork
Confidential Company is an office project in Israel by Setter Architects, planned across five levels for a collaborative workplace culture. The 8,500-square-meter (91,493-square-foot) hub leans on a vibrant, floor-by-floor palette to organize teams, guide movement, and frame daily rituals. Managers sit with their groups, while shared meeting rooms and cafeterias stitch together an egalitarian rhythm from morning coffee to late-afternoon reviews.
Light pours across neutral floors before catching on a band of color at the ceiling. A calm field opens, then a saturated hue pulls you toward the next pocket of activity.
This is an office—five floors and 8,500 square meters (91,493 square feet) in Israel—designed by Setter Architects around the power of color to shape daily work. The interiors use a floor-specific palette to cue orientation, set tone, and support an egalitarian plan where managers sit with their teams.
Set the Palette
Each level carries a distinct color family that ties departments together and keeps circulation legible. A single hue threads from ceilings to select surfaces, creating identity without noise and establishing quick visual recall for anyone moving between projects or floors.
Color Maps Movement
Collaboration zones sit at the core, marked by exposed, painted ceilings that push depth and momentum. The saturated overheads energize informal work, scale easily from two-person huddles to larger scrums, and act as wayfinding beacons for ad-hoc gatherings between scheduled meetings.
Material Calm, Wood Detail
Open-plan areas stay deliberately quiet: neutral walls, pale floors, and light ceilings carry daylight and let color accents do the directing. Meeting rooms trim back further with wooden ceilings, clean lines, and acoustic panels toned to each floor’s palette, producing focused rooms that still belong to their level’s identity.
Cafeterias as Hubs
Each floor gains its own cafeteria, scaled for daily pause and quick conversation. Seating varies to invite short breaks, team lunches, or last-minute reviews, while the floor’s color ties mugs, banquettes, and ceiling planes into a social anchor that resets the day’s tempo.
The plan resists hierarchy with managers seated among their teams, and shared meeting rooms distributed evenly across the stack. That choice keeps movement fluid, reduces bottlenecks at peak hours, and sets a common ground where departments meet without ceremony.
Sustainability underpins the project yet stays embedded in the background. Systems and materials are specified to LEED Gold standards, aligning lighting, air conditioning, sensors, and finishes to cut loads while maintaining comfort and clear air.
By evening, the neutral fields hold their glow as saturated ceilings deepen into richer tones. The palette carries the narrative from desk to cafeteria to room, measured and legible from first light to the last check-in.
Photography by Amit Gosher
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