Kirloskar Brothers, Office Interiors

What was built

Office interiors, 4,500 sq ft. The programme: a spacious reception and waiting area, a manager cabin, workstations laid out for sales productivity, and a director cabin. The workstations are the design problem in the room; the brief puts it plainly that they were laid out for productivity, not for the look of a plan, and the rest of the office is arranged around that working floor.

How an engagement like this runs

A commercial engagement is paced by the market the building serves. Presentation drawings resolve the front that has to work at driving speed; working drawings then carry the floor plates, the signboard zone and the tenant fit-out logic; structural and MEP follow; supervision holds the facade and the shared services to the drawing through construction, until closure.

This is the practice’s standing method for the type, not a claim about this project. The stage sequence and payment triggers are on how we work.

Where this record stands

The practice’s archive is being documented project by project. For this entry, the record holds location, year, scale, the recorded brief; still to be documented are photographs from the practice archive, the client consent that allows story and photographs to publish.

This type of work

Shops, showrooms, office buildings and plazas, from single facades to five-floor commercial blocks.