Fact File
Location: DLF Prime Towers, Okhla Phase 1, New Delhi
Gross Built Area: 2,400 sq.ft
Lead Architects: Ravideep Singh, Mohanbir Singh, Maninder Kaur
Photo credits:Suryan Dang
Tracking the customary movement of end-users in the 2400 sq.ft space helped devise the zoning of functions on the floor plan. The entrance orients the visitor directly into the meeting room without protruding into the privacy of studio space. The director cabin sits far back in the south-western corner, allowing for a potential, central studio zone to exuberate energy into the entire space, making it the isocentre of the office. This is surrounded by an open loop diverging along the east orientation, housing staff workstations.
The design of an architect's office is more of an interior 'architecture' than 'design', traversing into the phenomenology of the space. It requires the innate aura of space and the materials to interact with the people and inspire
Ar. Ravideep Singh, CDA
To further accentuate the experience, the table loop pulls up like a cloth along an axis, allowing people to walk around and under it where a small design library is housed. This visual axis extends in to the entrance wait via a thin linear puncture in the wall, creating a seamless coherent vista. Curves are felt to be more beautiful than straight lines; they are graceful, pliable and lead to a burst of activity in the brain leading to innovation and experience.
The open design with no ceilings and extra clear glass makes the office spatially expansive and functionally resourceful. The design of the meeting room is extremely fundamental, carrying forward the 'stimuli' of the studio in the form of a vertical panel seamlessly blending into a floating ceiling. The studio has a number of flexible elements such as the 'sliding white-boards' which double up as privacy screens for the meeting room. The space is further fused with energy by dint of yellow colored furniture and props; the genuineness of raw exposed concrete all around, and a seamless curved section.
