Corporate Office
The office for C&C Construction was designed with the intent of creating a Clean and minimalist, no-fuss office space which would be representative of the work ethos of the construction firm. The site was extremely tight and the main objective was to bring in the Green into the working space. A linear core was created along the western façade, to act as a thermal buffer and protect the working spaces from the extreme environmental conditions. The building was conceived as a solid from which internal volumes were carved out. Spatial sculpting was the predominant theme; the floor plate shifted as one went up, to create voids and terraces on every floor and an atrium in the front wrapped around the shell. This also enabled interconnected sectional fluidity which providing a sense of openness and the daylight to flow into the floor plates. An innovative use of structure allowed the floor plates to be column-free to increase the flexibility of the office interiors.
The interior of the office therefore, moves on from being static to being more networked and tentacled, within the office space. A contrasting palette of warm and cold materials is used to reflect the robust nature of the work profile of the company. The resilient, no-fuss interiors are reflected with the use of stone and wood. For the interiors of a space to completely blend in with the architecture that contains it, glass helps to add transparency and connects the inside to the outside. This also achieved by the provision of terraces and every floor plate looks into the double/triple height spaces.
Our workspaces need to be a representative of who we are today. We work like a multifaceted organism and the workspaces need to epitomize that. The office was conceived as being symbolic of this changing paradigm and has become a hybrid network with various connections and characteristics; an open ended space where plug-in and plug-out is possible.
