Eco-friendly Workspace

Located within a bustling office complex in Noida, the project is everything a normal office is not. It is not an ‘in your face’ modern, contemporary and swanky office, as one would imagine it should be, as it houses the owner of the IHDP (International Home Deco Park). Rather, it is an antithesis to the expected office style look and feel.

- Vistasp Bhagwagar

The tone was set to create an office that had a different approach to design and sustainable interiors. The client, being a global traveller, set the agenda of an office that would be based on ‘reincarnation’, that is, one which would allow for the adaptive reuse of discarded materials and products, to the extent possible. In other words, here was an office where the client was willing to look at deconstructing existing notions of how an office should be made and with what materials it should be made.

Earthy tone colour palette has a pretty simple concept. Think of it as a spectrum of colours inspired by Mother Nature herself, since the designers believe that the love and passion for nature should be alive always.

The USP of this project raise from the brief wherein one adopts the essence of green buildings: reduce, reuse and recycle. The unique aspect of the project is the search for ‘alternate materials’ and the emphasis on ‘sustainability’ rather than ‘superficiality’.

There are some unique aspects of this project. The entrance of the office is more like a gallery with a coffee shop rather than a conventional reception. The feature wall is an assembly of random sized chipboard planks on a brick wall that immediately sets the tone for the office by questioning conventional wisdom. The coffee counter on a closer look has a glass top counter with wood shavings underneath, giving the wasted material its place in the arclights, so to speak. The backdrop of this is a large wall graphic straight out of the forests with a ‘child-like’ rendition.