ABARCA OASIS HQ
Adaptive reuse of a 12-storey workplace into a new headquarters for Abarca Health.
San Juan, Puerto Rico · Workplace / Adaptive reuse · Built · 2024 · 55,000 ft² / 5,110 m²
Details
Abarca Oasis HQ is the completed retrofit of a 12-storey commercial building in San Juan into a hybrid workplace headquarters for Abarca Health. The project reorganises the existing tower as a vertical workplace campus, with social floors, shared amenities, transparent meeting rooms, open work areas, outdoor terraces, and distinct floor identities distributed through the building.
The design uses a modular workplace framework to support phased rollout, changing team needs, informal gathering, and all-hands events. Existing structure and services are retained where possible, while new collaboration hubs, planted interiors, outdoor rooms, and high-contrast shared spaces give the headquarters a stronger spatial and cultural identity.
Project
Abarca Oasis HQ
Location
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Client
Abarca Health
Type
Workplace / Adaptive reuse
Status
Built
Year
Completed 2024
Size
5,100 m² / 55,000 ft²
Scope
12-storey workplace retrofit, social floors, open work areas, meeting rooms, collaboration hubs, terraces, and shared amenities
Procurement
International tender / direct procurement
Role
Design architect, tender proposal through design development
Architect of record
Adorno Arquitectos
Construction documentation and delivery
Adorno Arquitectos
Existing building
Abarca Oasis HQ begins with the retrofit of an existing 12-storey commercial building in San Juan, turning a conventional office tower into a vertical workplace campus.
Vertical campus for the hybrid workforce
The existing 12-storey building is reorganised as a vertical workplace campus, with social floors, shared amenities, collaboration spaces, outdoor terraces, and distinct floor identities distributed through the tower.
Brief
The brief was to create more than a place for daily work. Abarca wanted a headquarters where Abarcans could reconnect, gather, break routine, and strengthen company culture in a post-pandemic workplace.
Shared workplace campus
Social floors and terraces extend the headquarters beyond the desk floor, creating places for meals, informal work, events, and daily team life across the building.
Outdoor rooms
Terraces, courtyards, and planted edges extend workplace life beyond enclosed office floors, creating places for meals, informal work, breaks, and daily team life.
Workplace framework
A repeatable floor system organises work clusters, shared rooms, collaboration hubs, and support spaces around a central circulation spine, allowing each level to adapt while keeping a clear workplace structure.
Workplace floors
Open work areas, shared tables, planting, and transparent meeting rooms turn the repeatable planning framework into everyday workplace settings.
Living rooms
Each workplace level includes a living room at the elevator arrival point, forming part of a wider breakout network with informal settings through the floor and an Abarcan hub at the northern bookend.
Abarcan hubs
Each level is anchored by a named collaboration hub, giving the repeated office floors a distinct identity. The hubs support meetings, informal work, team culture, and hybrid gatherings between remote and physically present Abarcans.
Completed headquarters
Abarca Oasis HQ brings daily work, shared amenities, outdoor rooms, living rooms, and collaboration hubs together inside a completed 12-storey workplace campus.