The New Home Office: How Optima Designs for the Way We Work Now

The way people work has changed more in the last five years than in the previous fifty. Remote work, hybrid schedules, and the collapse of the hard boundary between office and home have fundamentally altered what people need from the places they live. At Optima Kierland, the answer has been part of the design since long before the question became urgent, a five-tower community where the working day is as carefully designed as everything else.

Designed for Work, From the Inside Out

The foundation of Optima’s work-from-home offer begins in the residence itself. Every Optima floor plan is designed to accommodate a dedicated workspace, a desk, a corner, a room configured for separation between professional and personal life. That separation matters. The research is consistent: a defined work zone improves focus, reduces distraction, and makes it easier to close the day and return to the rest of life.

The architecture helps. Floor-to-ceiling glass fills every Optima residence with natural light throughout the working day, the kind of light that regulates sleep, sustains energy, and makes a desk in the corner of a living room feel less like a compromise and more like a considered choice.

At Optima Kierland, that desk faces the lushly landscaped courtyards below or the North Scottsdale skyline and mountains beyond. The vertical landscaping system that cascades down every facade and across every terrace, visible from every desk through floor-to-ceiling glass, provides the access to greenery that research consistently links to improved focus and reduced stress. The Optima Kierland home office is not a room with a view. It is a working environment designed to be genuinely restorative.

When You Need to Step Outside the Apartment

Each of Optima Kierland’s five towers has its own business center, conference rooms, and, in the 7190 tower, private huddle rooms with dedicated workspaces for the calls and meetings that require professional separation from the home. Five buildings, five sets of professional work amenities: the right space is always the one in your own tower, steps from your front door.

The huddle rooms at 7190 are a particular distinction, private, acoustically considered, equipped for video calls and focused work, designed for the resident who needs something between a home office and a full conference room. They are the kind of amenity that only gets built by developers who are also architects, and who think through the full complexity of what people actually need in their daily working lives.

The rooftop sky deck on each tower, heated pool, fire pits, outdoor lounge, provides the afternoon reset that makes a long working day sustainable. The 9.5 acres of landscaped courtyards are available for the lunchtime walk that clears the mind. At Optima Kierland, the distance between a productive morning and a restored afternoon is never more than an elevator ride.

The Home You Work In

The best residential communities anticipate how life actually unfolds, not just how it was imagined at the point of design. The shift toward remote and hybrid work has tested that anticipation hard. Optima communities have met it, not because work-from-home amenities were added in response to demand, but because the design philosophy, that a home should support the full complexity of the life lived inside it, was already pointing in the right direction.

From the floor plan that accommodates a dedicated desk to the private huddle room that accommodates the focused call; from the courtyards that offer a lunchtime reset to the rooftop that closes the day, Optima Kierland is designed for the way people actually work now.

Come see the spaces that make working from home genuinely work. Schedule a tour at Optima Kierland today.