Workspace · Lower Parel, Mumbai · 2024
Two Desks, One Room
A 34-seat studio floor that had to stay open but stop being loud.
- Location
- Lower Parel, Mumbai
- Type
- Workspace
- Configuration
- Studio floor, 34 seats
- Carpet area
- 4,200 sq ft
- Finish
- Essential
- On site
- 16 weeks
- Completed
- 2024
Brief
A design consultancy wanting an open floor for the culture and quiet for the actual work — the usual contradiction.
Constraint
A live floor. The team kept working through the build, so everything happened across four weekend phases.
Decisions
- 01
Acoustic ceiling before anything decorative
The budget went up into the ceiling rather than out onto the walls. Nobody photographs it and everybody notices it.
- 02
Four small call rooms, not two big ones
Meetings here are two people and a laptop. Sizing for that freed the floor.
- 03
Planting as the only partition
It divides sightlines without dividing air, and it survived a fit-out with no budget left for screens.
A 34-seat studio floor that had to stay open but stop being loud.