Arm’s Cambridge headquarters provide a creative landscape for innovation and holistic workplace for 2,500 employees of the leading semiconductor company. Scott Brownrigg has completed the design for the Arm headquarters, a global semiconductor and software design company, located in Cambridge, England.

Scott Brownrigg’s brief was to consolidate 2,500 innovators into one holistic workplace for the technology company Arm. The new headquarters needed to support its continued growth as a global leader in the technology sector.

The designs for the building form and cladding were inspired by the structure of silicon – the science behind integrated circuits. When an electron beam strikes crystalline silicon it produces a pattern of intersecting ‘Kikuchi’ bands. This pattern is incorporated throughout the building and every aspect of the project.

The silicon structure has been used to inform the design of every detail of the building, from the external appearance of the shading fins, through to the atrium soffits and interior design, down to the bespoke door handles.

The design wraps the building in a delicate lattice of aluminium – diffusing the light, reducing energy loads and responding to the passage of the sun.