Commercial space
Office Interior Design
What a project here covers
- Headcount planning, growth allowance and desk-to-seat ratio
- Workstation layout, circulation and escape routes
- Cabin, meeting room and quiet-booth mix based on how meetings actually happen
- Acoustic strategy across ceiling, floor, partitions and soft surfaces
- Reception and waiting area, and how a visitor moves through the space
- Electrical, data and HVAC coordination against the existing services layout
What this room has to solve
Everything is open plan and nothing is quiet
An open floor with no acoustic strategy makes concentrated work impossible and calls audible to everyone. Absorptive surfaces, a couple of enclosed rooms and some booths are not luxuries, they are what makes an open plan usable.
Meeting rooms are the wrong size
Most organisations need many small rooms and one or two large ones, and end up with the opposite. Counting how meetings actually happen, and for how many people, changes the plan considerably.
Services were designed for a different layout
Air conditioning, sprinklers, lighting and the false ceiling grid were set out for the previous occupant. Fitting a new plan under an existing services layout, or budgeting properly to move it, is a decision to make early.
Materials and finishes
- Partitions
- Full-height glazed partitions with an acoustic seal, or double glazing where confidentiality matters. A glass box with a gap at the top is not a meeting room.
- Flooring
- Carpet tile in work areas for acoustics and easy replacement; hard flooring in circulation and pantry where it takes wear and spills.
- Lighting
- Low-glare fittings with a suitable UGR rating over screens. Linear or recessed, with separate control of circulation and work zones so half the floor is not lit at seven in the evening.
What we will ask you
- How many people today, and what is the realistic number in two years?
- How many of them are on calls for most of the day?
- How do meetings actually happen: two people at a desk, six in a room, or thirty on a town hall?
- Do clients visit, and what should they see first?
- What is fixed by the landlord or the building: ceiling height, services, core walls, fit-out rules?
In more detail
Count the people, then the desks
An office plan starts with headcount and how the organisation actually works. Hybrid teams do not need a desk each, but they do need more meeting space and more lockers than a fully in-office team of the same size. Getting this ratio wrong is the most expensive mistake available, because it is designed into the partition layout and is disruptive to change.
We plan for a growth allowance that you set. Designing exactly to today’s headcount guarantees a rework within two years.
Acoustics are the whole game
The complaint about almost every open-plan office is noise. It is solved with a combination rather than a single move: an absorptive ceiling, carpet in the work zone, soft surfaces at head height, meeting rooms sealed properly at the head of the partition, and a couple of small booths so a call does not have to happen at a desk. None of it is exotic and all of it needs to be in the design from the start.
Working under the landlord’s constraints
Most fit-outs inherit a services layout, a ceiling grid, fixed cores and a set of building rules about working hours, material movement and shutdowns. We establish those first, because they set the real boundary of what the fit-out can do, and finding out late is what turns a schedule into a problem.
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