BANESPA SANTANDER STAFF CLUB
São Paulo / SP / Brazil

The Sodexho group is a world leader in Food and Beverage services around the globe. They started operations in Brazil in 1979 and have been growing ever since, being a market leader in in-company restaurant services. The Banespa Bank is a traditional founded in 1909 to finance the coffee agro-industry, with French capital as the main shareholder, and the State of São Paulo as the third major shareholder. In 1969 the first Public Offer of Stocks were made, followed by new offices in New York, London and Tokyo. After this period it gradually became a State owned bank adding up to 8 Companies in the group, until it was privatized in 2000, being bought in auction by the Spanish Santander Group, one of the main banks globally and market leader in the Euro-zone, as well as market leader in Latin America. Founded in 1857 and composed of several companies acting is all financial market segments, it?s the top foreign investor in the Brazilian Banking Segment, having acquired part of the ABN AMRO operations worldwide in 2007, including Brazil.

We were requested by Sodexho to design a ?club? for employees of the Banespa Santander Group at the new Interlagos Site. When moving to the outskirts of town it was found necessary to provide a supporting infrastructure for the staff assigned to a site on such a distant location. Therefore, the ?staff club? includes a café / snack bar, hairdresser saloon, gym, sports courts, video club, etc. In this specific area people can meet in an informal setting and have access to s series of services. The total project area of 10.000m² was refurbished and fitted out in a period of 8 weeks, between project design and development, where we also did the project management.