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Lower Parel, Mumbai · 2024

Two Desks, One Room

A 34-seat studio floor that had to stay open but stop being loud.

An open-plan office with pendant lighting and mixed seating
Location
Lower Parel, Mumbai
Type
Workspace
Configuration
Studio floor, 34 seats
Carpet area
4,200 sq ft
Finish level
Essential
On site
16 weeks
Completed
2024

The brief

A design consultancy wanting an open floor for the culture and quiet for the actual work — the usual contradiction.

The hard part

A live floor. The team kept working through the build, so everything happened across four weekend phases.

What we did about it

  1. 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.

  2. Four small call rooms, not two big ones

    Meetings here are two people and a laptop. Sizing for that freed the floor.

  3. Planting as the only partition

    It divides sightlines without dividing air, and it survived a fit-out with no budget left for screens.

Open office floor with dense planting between desk clusters
Planting instead of partitions
Long desk runs under a dark exposed ceiling
Services left exposed, sprayed out

A 34-seat studio floor that had to stay open but stop being loud.

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