A Warehouse, Kept Honest
The shell was a 1990s warehouse. We left the structure and services exposed and spent the budget on acoustics and lighting instead of covering the building up.
That decision also saved time. Nothing had to be furred out or boxed in, so the fit-out crew could start on finishes almost as soon as the survey was done.
Planning for How People Actually Work Here
A co-working floor lives or dies on noise and interruption, so we treated zoning as the real design problem.
Zoning for Noise
Quiet desking sits furthest from the entrance, with the lounge and phone booths absorbing the traffic in between. Members stopped complaining about noise within a month of opening.
A Front Door That Slows You Down
The lounge deliberately breaks the sightline from the entrance to the desks, so arriving members pause instead of walking straight through a room full of people concentrating.
Fit-Out at a Glance
The full scope covered structure, services, and furniture, delivered in a single continuous programme.
- Acoustic ceiling baffles suspended from the exposed structure
- Six enclosed phone booths and two bookable meeting rooms
- A planted green wall dividing the open desking bay
- Task lighting on every desk, layered under the skylights
A Year of Operating
Occupancy passed the operator's twelve-month target in month seven, and the phone booths are now the single most booked resource on the floor.
We built the loudest-looking office in Kemang and somehow made it the quietest one to actually work in.