Commercial space
Office interiors are judged on how they work under load: acoustics, circulation, meeting availability and the state of the place at four in the afternoon. Looking good in photographs is the easy part.
Before anything is drawn
An open floor with no acoustic strategy makes concentrated work impossible and calls audible to everyone. Absorptive surfaces, a couple of enclosed rooms and some booths are not luxuries, they are what makes an open plan usable.
Most organisations need many small rooms and one or two large ones, and end up with the opposite. Counting how meetings actually happen, and for how many people, changes the plan considerably.
Air conditioning, sprinklers, lighting and the false ceiling grid were set out for the previous occupant. Fitting a new plan under an existing services layout, or budgeting properly to move it, is a decision to make early.
An office plan starts with headcount and how the organisation actually works. Hybrid teams do not need a desk each, but they do need more meeting space and more lockers than a fully in-office team of the same size. Getting this ratio wrong is the most expensive mistake available, because it is designed into the partition layout and is disruptive to change.
We plan for a growth allowance that you set. Designing exactly to today’s headcount guarantees a rework within two years.
The complaint about almost every open-plan office is noise. It is solved with a combination rather than a single move: an absorptive ceiling, carpet in the work zone, soft surfaces at head height, meeting rooms sealed properly at the head of the partition, and a couple of small booths so a call does not have to happen at a desk. None of it is exotic and all of it needs to be in the design from the start.
Most fit-outs inherit a services layout, a ceiling grid, fixed cores and a set of building rules about working hours, material movement and shutdowns. We establish those first, because they set the real boundary of what the fit-out can do, and finding out late is what turns a schedule into a problem.
The room itself
Specification
Come prepared
These are the questions that decide the design. Having answers ready makes the first meeting worth twice as much.
Draft wording.This page was written by us from your brief rather than by you. Read it, change anything that is not how you work, and we will set it exactly as you want it.
Let's begin
Tell us about the property and what you want from it. We will come back with a plan and a detailed estimate.
