Step 01
How your teams work
Headcount now and later, who sits with whom, how often you meet and who visits.
Workplace interiors · Nagpur, Maharashtra
An office should be planned around the work that happens in it. We start with how your team spends its day, then lay out desks, cabins and meeting space to suit — and work back from the date you need to move in.
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Why us
Most office layouts are drawn by counting heads and fitting desks into the floor plate. That produces a plan, but not necessarily an office that works: the sales team ends up beside the quiet accounts desk, the only meeting room is booked all day, and visitors walk through the middle of everyone.
We ask different questions first. Who needs to sit together, who needs quiet, how often people meet and in what numbers, who comes to visit, and how many people you expect to add over the next few years. The office interior design follows from those answers.
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Desk sizes, cluster sizes and aisle widths chosen for the work — drawing-heavy teams need more surface than people who work on a laptop, and everyone needs somewhere to put things away.
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How many, how big and where. Cabins placed on the outer wall take daylight from everyone else, so we often set them further in with glass fronts, and decide early whether each one also has to hold small meetings.
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Sized for the meetings you actually hold, which are usually smaller and more frequent than people expect. A mix of one larger room and a couple of small ones tends to be used far more than a single big boardroom.
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The first thing a visitor sees, and the route that keeps them away from the working floor. Pantry, storage, printing and washrooms are placed so that walking to them does not disturb the people at their desks.
In detail
Noise is the most common complaint in a new office, and it is easiest to solve on paper. Keep phone-heavy teams away from those who need quiet, give meeting rooms proper partitions rather than a single layer of glass, and use a ceiling and soft finishes that absorb sound instead of bouncing it round the floor.
Light matters as much as layout. Desks should get daylight without screens facing straight into a window, and the artificial lighting should be planned for screen work, with even, glare-free light across the desks rather than bright spots and dark corners. In Nagpur that also means shading west-facing glass, or the afternoon sun will make half the floor unusable for several months of the year.
Plan power and data desk by desk. Every workstation needs its own sockets and network point, meeting rooms need a screen connection at the table, and the server or network rack needs a ventilated place of its own. Getting this into the drawings avoids the tangle of extension leads that most offices end up with.
Finally, design for the office you will be in three years from now. A layout that can take a few more desks without moving walls saves you a second fit-out.
How we work
Step 01
Headcount now and later, who sits with whom, how often you meet and who visits.
Step 02
Two or three layouts on your floor plan, each showing desks, cabins and meeting rooms, so you compare real options.
Step 03
Furniture, ceiling, lighting, power and data layouts, priced line by line before contractors are appointed.
Step 04
The site programme is agreed against your move-in date, and we coordinate the trades until the snag list is closed.
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Questions
It depends on the kind of work more than on a fixed rule. Someone at a laptop needs far less than someone spreading out drawings, and the meeting, storage and circulation space around the desks matters just as much. We work it out from your team’s actual work, then test it on your floor plan.
Neither is right for every business. Open plan helps teams that collaborate constantly; people who make confidential calls or need long stretches of concentration need enclosed space. Most offices work best with open workstations plus a few quiet rooms and cabins placed where they do not block the daylight.
Yes. We plan the power, data and lighting for more desks than you need on day one, and keep the workstation layout modular, so adding people later means adding desks rather than rebuilding.
It depends on the area, the amount of civil and services work and the furniture lead times. We agree the date you need to move in at the start and build the design and site programme backwards from it, so you know early whether that date is realistic.
Often, yes, by working in phases and moving teams around as each area is finished. We plan that sequence with you before work starts.