Corporate office interiors

Introduction PGEL Group is one of the leading manufacturing facilities in the country and has been a market leader for more than four decades. With a wide spectrum of items produced at their facilities across the country, PGEL boasts itself as a Global Manufacturing Partner to many well-known Consumer Good Brands.   Caption Project Overview The project is to revamp the office headquarters of the PGEL Group that based in Greater Noida. As there are multiple manufacturing facilities located in the region, the HQ is located centrally to create a highly efficient and connected operational network.  With a legacy of more than four decades and with the next wave of young entrepreneurs joining into the business – the group... Más

Espacio musical de la nueva oficina de Universal Music Polska en un proyecto de viviendas industriales diseñado por los arquitectos de The Design Group.    La nueva oficina del sello musical Universal Music Polska en Varsovia cautiva con una inusual mezcla de elementos de loft y ambiente acogedor, elegancia y tecnología punta al más alto nivel. Es un espacio que se adapta a todo el mundo: sólo quieres quedarte, trabajar y crear. Gran parte del mérito es del equipo de arquitectos de The Design Group, responsables del originalísimo diseño interior de la mayor compañía discográfica que opera en Polonia. Caption Universal Music Polska forma parte del grupo mu... Más

Client Brief and Expectations: Design a world class facility of a Broad Casting Sports Studio Challenges: Managing accurate sound and acoustic levels. Accuracy of lighting within the studio. Appropriate circulation plan to ensure visitor movement and employee movement is perfectly planned.   Concept and Design Approach:Broadcasting Studios come with their own set of challenges. And this one being a Sports studio came with its own peculiar problems to add to the matrix of issues to be addressed within the design of the space. Planning of the interior required exact dimensions of the studios to be planned, sound and visual editing rooms had to be of an accurate size to meet with its technical requirements, accurate acoustics had to b... Más

Client Brief and Expectations: Horizon Packs is a family owned manufacturing company for packaging material, essentially cardboard boxes etc . Their brief to us was to upgrade the working style of a firm that has long been used to an orthodox working environment.  ChallengesConcept and Design Approach:Solution – The space has been planned with a mix of closed cabins for the directors, enclosed cubicles and few workstations in the open office. Use of glass has been maximised for visual connectivity & penetration of sunlight into the space. The reception area has wooden rafter ceiling & wall panelling evocative of the corrugated material of cardboard boxes. The furniture is simple with clean line, with little pops of... Más

With the opening of its Innovation Centre, MICROSOFT implements a series of actions that promote entrepreneurship. Following an architectural competition, the design of the MICROSOFT Innovation Centre was awarded to Α&Μ. The main aspects of the project were the incorporation of the MICROSOFT Innovation Centre inside the company headquarters in Marousi and the remodeling of the existing offices for improved communication and collaboration among staff members. The project was based on the Workplace Advantage program which has been implemented in many MICROSOFT offices worldwide. At the same time, the graphic design proposals by A&M created the desirable corporate identity and have played a catalytic role in the final outcome.... Más

Those driving down Gurgaon’s Golf Course Road might slow down at seeing a gorgeous piazza-like forecourt of an eye-catching entrance, done up with greenery, artefacts and featuring a massive rustic double height door. If you’re headed to the Space Matrix [β] Lab (Beta Lab), you’ll know you’ve come to the right place.   [β] Lab — The Genesis [β] Lab is not just a design studio or a workspace — it is an amalgamation of various work environments that function as a testing ground, both for us and our clients. One might say it’s a real-time workshop that brings together the art and science of design, essentially in permanent beta mode. Over the last few years, work has ste... Más

Alcove has designed the new offices of energy delivery company Sterlite Power, located in Mumbai, India. Client Brief and Expectations: Design a world class office which makes a brand statement as per the company’s image and meets with the next generation of work space challenges and expectations. Challenges: Building Architecture with a low height of the existing slab and client’s expectation to gain a volumetric experience of the space. Caption Concept and Design Approach:Solution – A space that speaks about the client’s values and impact on the society as a whole by using a subtle Art intersperse. Workplace designed as an Art Gallery. Only difference here is that the ever-changing Art will always talk abou... Más

Located in a former Army storehouse, this workspace is an expansion to the adjacent flagship meeting and event center (MEC) designed by the same team. Achieving efficiency without monotony, the parti of the project is an archipelago of elements among the open plan “sea” of desks. Each of the archipelago’s “islands” is designed to allow natural light to penetrate the entire space. “Solid” programs, such as meeting rooms and support spaces, are arranged in bars along the cross axis, creating nearly uninterrupted views between the building’s parallel north and south facade window walls. The central island is a luminous bar, wrapped in a 34-color gradient that organizes teams within the surroundi... Más

The Project is located in Bharuch, Gujarat, India within the carpet area of 500 Sq. Ft. and was Completed in the year 2018.The major project requirements were waiting area for 3-4 people, workspace for 3-4 people, main cabin, store and pantry.  The idea was to design a flexible work environment to cater the modern creative workforce, which differs from a conventional office. The concept was to move out of the cubicles and making use of the curvilinear form in a square shaped space to create adaptive fluidity. The area was zoned into sections and was further developed with the help of space formation into a curvilinear pattern. Also, it creates a healthy working environment which is much more natural and pleasing. This allows a conveni... Más

Vrnda Pharma is a pharmaceutical company which deals with clients and vendors all over the world. When the clients approached our studio, to design their newly bought office space, their brief was simple. They wanted a cool and quirky new space, which does not take itself too seriously. Their staff includes young people in the age bracket of 22 to 35 and they did not want the office to have a formal, more serious ambience. With this brief they gave us a free hand to design the space albeit within a tight budget. The idea behind the office here was to create a variety of spaces that will enable people to work in a way they want to work. As one enters the office, he is greeted with a small reception and waiting area, which is secluded from t... Más

The typewriter, the floppy disk, the pager — all these office staples were breakthrough technologies in their time. Today, you would be hard pressed to find even a single one of these items in a modern workplace.   With technology and design evolving at breakneck speed, staying relevant in an ever-changing market is no mean feat. As most companies realise, future-readiness is the key to success. Being future-ready however, is not just about the products you create — it should also be reflected in the space you work in. It is no longer enough to design workspaces for immediate requirements. One needs to anticipate future needs, plan for growth and design a comprehensive future-facing workplace strategy.   This is es... Más

Area : 600 SFT. Typology : Interiors, Workspace Status : Completed  Year : 2019 Design Team : Shruti Omprakash, Dinesh Kumar Execution : Studio Context Architects Location : Chennai, India Photography : Phosart Studio The workplace as we know it today is the result of explosive creativity stretching the traditional rules of the workplace in the past, where hierarchies, social politics, and a general sense of rigidity prevailed. In today’s world, an office has the possibility of looking so many different ways.  This design for Kabadiwalla Connect, a young promising waste-management company in the city began with a need for achieving high levels of productivity in the workplace and had to accommodate the client’... Más

Thanks to technology and international exposure, most companies today are highly globalised. A senior executive in the US may spend much of his day collaborating with his peer in the company’s office in China. Both executives speak the same language, use the same technology and operate on similar company values.   However, local cultural context still plays an important role in the way companies function. After the meeting, the executive in the US may go back to the open workspace, sit right next to a junior employee and take decisions consensually with his team. The executive in China, on the other hand, may still value his hierarchical standing, and prefer to work from his corner office. A forward-thinking company finds a way... Más

Azqore, a technology services company, was launched in 2018 as an independent subsidiary of Crédit Agricole Private Banking Services, to help wealth managers and private banks transform their operational efficiency and ensure compliance with regulations. Azqore Singapore first shared their office with Crédit Agricole at Mapletree Business City but relocated as they were expanding and wanted to bring the Azqore team together, in one central location, giving them their own branded office workplace that would foster a sense of belonging and a stronger team culture.  Space Matrix found that automation is one of the biggest trends that is impacting Singapore’s financial workforce, an industry that Azqore is in. In 2019,... Más