Three floors in Mirpur, Dhaka, rented one above the other. That is how the Creative Engineers head office began, and it is what happens to a growing company in a dense city. You take the space that becomes available, floor by floor, and end up running one business out of what feels like three separate offices.

The brief was not decoration. It was to make 10,500 sft across three levels behave as one organisation.

The first decision was to leave the desks alone until the movement was solved. Stair access was aligned with the floor planning so that moving between levels follows an obvious route rather than a learned one. Each floor then received a primary spine, a single circulation line that meeting rooms, service areas and washrooms sit off. A visitor on the second floor reads the plan exactly as a visitor on the ground floor does.

In an office split across floors, the cost of poor circulation is not aesthetic. It is minutes, repeated by eighty people, every working day.

The workstation layout rejected the uniform grid. Departments were grouped into flexible team bays arranged by workflow adjacency, so the people who need each other sit near each other. Delivered capacity was 80 workstations and 3 meeting rooms across the three floors, built in three to four months. Storage and service positions were designed into the bay strategy rather than added afterwards, which is the difference between an office that photographs well on handover day and one that still works two years later.

Standard office furniture rarely matches the IT and storage requirements of a Dhaka fitout. Meeting tables and modular storage units were designed for this project and produced through the studio's own workshop. Power points and cable routing were coordinated with the workstation layout from the start. Cables that are planned disappear. Cables that are solved later become trip hazards and maintenance calls.

Privacy was treated as a layout problem rather than a materials problem. Meeting rooms and call zones were placed for quick access from the work bays, then buffered by circulation corridors. High-traffic collaboration areas were kept away from deep-work zones, with partition and door positions doing most of the work.

Reception sets the first impression, but the brand cannot stop there. Consistent feature walls and coordinated finishes run across all three levels so the building reads as one company rather than three tenants. The executive floor follows the same discipline as the workstation areas: clear sightlines from the desk to the door, visitor seating placed so it does not interrupt desk work, and storage built into the layout rather than parked against a wall.