A Study of Light & Material in Seattle: Substantial by goCstudio

The client: Substantial, a digital product studio founded in Seattle in 2006. Substantial needed new digs for its growing team, and it didn’t have to look far. In 2013 the firm had moved into a century-old building at the corner of Pine and Broadway in the heart of Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. When additional space within that building opened up, Substantial took the opportunity to expand. It tasked the Seattle-based goCstudio to redesign the building’s entire 14,000 square foot upper floor. The top floor had previously existed as two separate office spaces of very different character. Substantial first moved into the smaller of the two offices, then expanded to the rest of the floor when the previous tenant moved. Substantial wanted its new offices to maintain the feel of its original space – a cohesive, open plan – but one that would enable them to weave more events and social …