Microsoft Visitor Center
There are few places where Microsoft’s past, present, and emerging technologies can occupy the same room. The Microsoft Visitor Center brings them together without dividing the experience into conventional exhibits. Sweeping white forms guide people through layers of translucent metal mesh, glass, illuminated surfaces, and suspended elements, keeping views open as visitors move through the space. Interactive displays, projected imagery, product stations, and historical artifacts become part of the architecture itself, making discovery part of the way people move through Microsoft’s story.
Redmond, WA
Experiential Design
Experience Planning
15,000 SF
Initial study of the visitor experience, mapping circulation, display walls, enclosed workpoints, seating, and telephone rooms.
A suspended spherical projection creates a vivid digital focal point within the exhibition environment.
A playful, technology-integrated zone uses translucent tree graphics, artificial turf, soft seating, and interactive projection to create a more informal visitor experience.
A sweeping white counter and translucent metal mesh enclosure define a central technology hub while maintaining visual connection across the space.
Curved metal mesh screens provide spatial separation without closing off the exhibit, allowing light, imagery, and activity to remain visible through multiple layers.
Historic Microsoft products and artifacts are displayed alongside technical diagrams and interpretive graphics, connecting the company’s technological history to its contemporary work.
Laptops and integrated media are presented against a luminous color-changing wall, combining product demonstration with large-scale digital storytelling.
Floor-to-ceiling projected media surrounds visitors with a responsive digital experience, extending the exhibition beyond conventional screens.
The reception area introduces the exhibition through sculpted white forms, translucent mesh, projected media, and a fluid circulation path into the main space.
