Project:
This leading garment design company required a central administrative office as well as large design studio to be inserted within the high volume ground floor of its production unit. The client’s brief was to design a new and more representative office space and a creative design studio with ample display area. The design had to embody and communicate the client’s identity as a design intensive company.
Approach:
The programmatic distribution, while ensuring efficiency of circulation and interrelations of activities, also ensures climatic efficiency.
- The high occupancy staff areas and executive cabins are located towards the East, thus avoiding exposure to harsh sunlight from West and improving the air-conditioning efficiency.
- The clear glass partitions between the cabins and staff area allow ample natural daylight in the staff area, leading to lesser need for artificial lighting during the daytime.
-The pergolas along the large south openings protect them from direct sunlight. The potted plants in the rainwater channel provide a visual relief.
The design idea revolved around the philosophy of ‘Tat Tvam Asi’ ( Thou art That) and the fractal geometry of Golden Proportions. Our search was how to connect smaller parts to a larger whole such that the parts and whole contain the same structure.
The office floor, inserted as a steel and wood floor, sits lightly within the high industrial volume. The lightness and warmth of wood floor acknowledges and balances the over-bearing heaviness of deep industrial trusses anchored to thick concrete brackets.
All the elements of spatial design are derived from the simple material palette of lacquer polished wood/ ply, powder-coated light M.S. sections and glass.
Thus our design choices aimed to answer the multiple questions at the same time. The integration of both industrial environment and the identity of the company as a design firm narrates a conceptual story about the organisation, the space and its users.