In the industrial heartland of Delhi NCR, Woven Metal emerges as a vibrant architectural response to a unique challenge: designing an office extension to an operational metal fabrication factory. The client’s brief called for two separate office spaces—each serving a distinct company within the same industry—united under one architectural language, while ensuring functionality, flexibility, and identity for both.
What followed is a visually striking, L-shaped office complex, designed to be both an extension of the industrial ecosystem and a progressive workplace infused with collaborative energy and biophilic design.
A Façade That Breathes: Form Follows Climate
The first design intervention was driven by climate intelligence. Given the extreme weather conditions of Delhi NCR, the architects envisioned a metal ventilated façade—not only as a functional shading system but also as a sustainable gesture. Crafted from metal fabric panels, the façade reduces solar gain while echoing the material identity of the factory it adjoins. This dual-function skin simultaneously celebrates eco-conscious manufacturing and provides a visual continuity with the client’s core industry.
The façade is further articulated with vibrant window projections in primary hues like red and blue, adding a playful pop to the otherwise muted exterior. This careful choreography of colour and material creates a dialogue between bold identity and minimalist modernism.
L-Shaped Planning for People and Productivity
Spatially, the building adopts an L-shaped linear configuration, pivoted around a double-height reception that anchors the two office wings. Each wing is designated to one company, maintaining operational independence while offering shared collaborative areas to enhance community and interaction.
The office environment is designed around non-hierarchical principles, balancing open-plan workstations, private cabins, breakout zones, and flexible meeting areas. The layout encourages movement and adaptability, ensuring the workspace can evolve with future needs.
Biophilic elements—such as indoor plants and natural material palettes—are integrated into the design to introduce calm, creativity, and connection to nature, improving both aesthetics and employee well-being.
Designed for Flexibility, Built for the Future
On the interior, contemporary minimalism reigns. The layout adheres to a strict grid system, ensuring modularity and allowing for easy reconfiguration without extensive demolition or downtime. Clean lines, soft neutrals, and reflective surfaces create a sleek, professional atmosphere that doesn’t compromise on warmth or comfort.
This design methodology ensures that Woven Metal is not just a static office space—it’s an adaptive platform for business growth, teamwork, and innovation. It embodies a new era of workspace design, where the boundaries between work and wellness, functionality and freedom, structure and spontaneity are artfully blurred.
Conclusion: Industrial Design with a Human Touch
Woven Metal represents a rare synergy—an industrial typology redefined for people-centric design. It respects the material heritage of the client’s business while offering a modern, dynamic, and sustainable workplace, purpose-built for the evolving demands of today’s professionals.
By weaving together function, form, and feeling, this office complex is a compelling case study in how industrial architecture can evolve to champion human productivity and environmental consciousness—without sacrificing either.
