conference room with blue tinted screens and lights
A 36-foot-wide LED screen in the 28-seat central conference area is joined by marker boards of back-painted glass encouraging creative exploration and doubling as interior walls.

April 10, 2024

Words: Lauren Gallow

Words: Scott Mcdonald/Gray City Studios

Immersive Design Greets Visitors in the Flogistix HQ

At a moment when the climate crisis demands more innovative solutions than ever before, Oklahoma-based tech company Flogistix is moving the needle on emissions reduction. For its new headquarters in the state’s capital, company CEO Mims Talton enlisted the eponymous founder of Rand Elliott Architects to craft a space as inspiring as it is functional, immersing visitors in an atmosphere that makes a clean future feel squarely within reach.

“Atmosphere” was a fitting focus for the design team, as it is also the realm where Flogistix innovates. The company uses drone technology to sniff out and capture escaping methane gas before it is released into the atmosphere and then remotely services petroleum-industry clients’ vapor-recovery equipment. “In my first conversation with Mims, he described Flogistix as being in the business of ‘producing clean air’,” recounts Elliott, an Interior Design Hall of Fame member. “It was a fascinating start, but how do you tell an architectural story about something invisible?” 

room with orange lights and doors
The company mantra, “Our Goal is Zero,” features in the entry, encircled by a BIG–Bjarke Ingels Group wall-mounted light fixture.

Elliott and team’s solution was to immerse visitors in the mysterious, somewhat intangible world of Flogistix using the careful modeling of space, dramatic lighting, and high-tech elements. “We thought if we could bring people into an atmosphere that completely surrounds them, we could transport them to a place where they begin to understand what Flogistix does,” the architect explains. Entering through an orange-tinted glass vestibule, visitors are immediately engulfed in a different dimension, with the bulk of the 2,400-square-foot space given over to a large flexible conference room with a 36-foot-wide LED screen for presentations and immersive visuals. A backlit photograph of the Earth hovers overhead, reminding visitors and staff alike of the company’s raison d’être. 

conference room with a bright green screen and digital view of a globe
A “blue marble” image of the Earth sourced from NASA is printed on the backlit stretched ceiling illuminating the central conference area

The site itself is a lesson in repurposing: a 1970’s building originally designed as an architectural office but that had fallen into a sorry state after hosting a series of other tenants. Stripping the interior to the core and shell and removing all interior walls offered a blank slate. Outside, an existing sculpture was painted the brand’s signature orange and up-lit, its abstract quality finding cohesion with the pops of modern art installed inside, including a showpiece by street artist Mr. Brainwash. Throughout, an ethos of awe and discovery abounds, transporting staffers and guests to a world where old limitations are cast off and new possibilities celebrated. “Today’s challenges require us to think differently,” Elliott says. “This space and Flogistix itself reminds us we have the power to make an impact.” 

exterior facade of building with orange sculpture
An existing outdoor sculpture by JHBR Architecture marking the entry was painted Flogistix orange, and the corrugated-metal siding refinished and supplemented with engineered-wood panels.
conference room with blue tinted screens and lights
A 36-foot-wide LED screen in the 28-seat central conference area is joined by marker boards of back-painted glass encouraging creative exploration and doubling as interior walls.
break room area with orange chairs and wooden paneled walls
Dual seating areas define the lobby, one set within a white oak–clad nook and featuring Harry Bertoia barstools, the other with Hans Wegner Ox and Queen chairs, an Isamu Noguchi table, and Einstein by Mr. Brainwash.
conference room with bright blue screen and orange statue
In the conference area, anchored by a Flogistix drone, Yuno modular tables by Andreas Krob pair with Arne Jacobsen chairs.
exterior of an office with orange lights and walls
At the headquarters of Flogistix, a company focused on emissions reduction, film in the brand’s signature orange was applied to windows of the river rock–lined entry vestibule.
bathroom with white doors and red artwork
Three individual restrooms run along the building’s north end, with glass vessel sinks set atop custom oiled-walnut casework.
FROM FRONT 

SOLYX FILMS: WINDOW FILM (ENTRY). 

NEWTECHWOOD: SIDING (EXTERIOR). 

ARTEMIDE: WALL-MOUNT FIXTURE (ENTRY). 

DAKTRONICS: LED SCREEN (CONFERENCE AREA). 

BERNHARDT DESIGN: MODULAR TABLES. 

FRITZ HANSEN: CHAIRS. 

SKYLINE DESIGN: MARKER BOARD. 

CLIPSO: STRETCH CEILING. 

SHAW CONTRACT: CARPETING. 

CARL HANSEN & SØN: LOUNGE CHAIRS (LOBBY). 

HERMAN MILLER: TABLE. 

KNOLL: BARSTOOLS. 

INTERFACE: FLOORING (BATHROOMS). 

VIGO INDUSTRIES: SINKS. 

KOHLER CO.: SINK FITTINGS. 

THROUGHOUT 

SHERWIN-WILLIAMS: PAINT. 

LINGO CONSTRUCTION SERVICES: GENERAL CONTRACTOR. 

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