Best of Office Space
OFFICE@63
Designer / Agency
- SANJAY
Category
- Office Space
Award
- 2024 SILVER
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PROJECT
DESCRIPTION
A series of architectural volumes create an office for a furniture contract company within their factory.
Volumes within volumes lend each functional part of the office their own identity. A large reception space is punctuated by a 36’ high seating area in the form of elliptical pods floating in a shallow reflecting pool at one end and a landscaped courtyard at the other end.
Towards one side, a 36’ high multifunctional space with movable modular platforms is designed to be used as a furniture display space, a seminar hall or a social interaction space. A cantilevered sweeping stairway spirals asymmetrically through this volume connecting the 3 levels of the office.
Each of the spaces within the office are formed by elliptical volumes that create organic circulation spaces between them. A material palette of glass, metallic paint walnut and wood, sound insulation boards, cork and concrete accentuate each area differently.
Lighting is integrated with the design in multiple ways. Perforated partitions of wood fused with plexiglass, ceilings of pyramidal modules, a conference room with an installation of aluminium pipes are all infused with lighting.
On each level, large openings allow natural light into the internal spaces from the northern side and unobstructed views of the factory on the southern side. Exposed ducting & exposed structural steel supports allude to the industrial space of the factory along with the steel finishes for most of the partitions.
Each of the workstation areas, the discussion rooms, the cabins, conference room, multi-functional space & video conferencing room based upon the client’s brief is individual in identity and arranged organically over 3 levels forming an architectural interior with a composition of varying volumes.
Agency:SANJAY
Sanjay Puri Architects have been ranked at number 32 on Archello’s list of Top 100 architects worldwide and are listed in Arch daily’s list of Top 100 architects worldwide and in the WA UK top 100 architectural firms as well as the Architizer New York’s top130 architecture firms in the world.
Winning the Overall Sustainable Design firm of the Year in the Architizer A+ Awards New York 2024 ,The Best Completed Building – Production Energy & Logistics in the World Architecture Festival, Singapore 2023, Createurs Design Awards-Best residential project worldwide Paris 2023, The LOOP Design Awards -Best Large architectural firm, The Best housing Project worldwide in the World Architecture Festival , Lisbon 2022, The LEAF Awards London, Best interior project 2021, the firm has won over 475 awards including 350 International design awards.
The firm with founding partners Sanjay Puri & Nina Puri have won architectural projects in Australia, Spain, Montenegro, UAE, Oman & Dallas USA and are currently involved in the design of projects in 51 Indian cities.
Sanjay has been on the jury of the World Architecture Festivals in Barcelona, Singapore, Berlin, Amsterdam & Lisbon being the first Indian architect to be on the jury. Sanjay has also been a judge for The Architectural Review Awards, UK, Dezeen Awards, UK, The Plan Awards, Italy, Inde Awards, Australia and been a speaker at several international & national conventions.
Sanjay is a registered member of the RIBA, UK, Society of American Registered Architects (SARA, New York), Indian Institute of Architecture (IIA), Indian Institute of Interior Designers(IIID) and has been a part of the Heritage Conservation Committee, New Delhi.
With a current firm strength of 108, evolving design solutions that are contextual and sustainable and creating spaces that explore spatial perceptions, with new design directions forms the essence of the firm’s design philosophy.
