Workspace
Two Desks, One Room
A 34-seat studio floor that had to stay open but stop being loud.
- Where
- Lower Parel, Mumbai
- Carpet area
- 4,200 sq ft
- On site
- 16 weeks
- Finish level
- Essential
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 changed
Noise at the desks fell noticeably, and the four call rooms are booked most of the day, which is the real evidence.
The decisions
Three moves did
most of the work
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.
The rooms
Photographed a year
after handover
Specified
Every finish, named
The written specification runs to eleven pages. This is the part of it you can see from the door.
- ChalkWalls and acoustic baffles#F2F1EE
- GraphiteExposed services, sprayed#33373A
- MossPlanting and the soft seating#5C6B4A
Something like this,
in your flat?
Send us the floor plan and the two things that annoy you most about the space. We will tell you honestly what it would take.