How Minimum Intervention Can Create Maximum Impact

In Surat, the office of Aagey Se Right exhibits how minimum intervention can create maximum impact thanks to the creative ingenuity of The Company of Design and their impressive approach to adaptive reuse.

- Carol Ferrao

Very few have the thirst for the unconventional, a drive to set new benchmarks, an eye to see beauty where most don’t and the ability to bring back the dead to life. This passion is most apparent in the world of design, which in its truest sense is a poetic journey undertaken by all the stakeholders involved, whether they realize it or not. The brand-new office space for Surat-based advertising agency Aagey Se Right speaks eloquently of this tryst. Executed by architects Pooja Shah and Niel Parekh of The Company of Design, for the client who has been a long-time collaborator on the firm’s F&B projects, the venture is a result of a synergy between different creative fields.

Could the 30-year-old load-bearing structure, originally a quaint Surat row house, be morphed into a dynamic, young office space? The first site visit painted a bleak picture: there were water leakage issues and the area was in poor condition because it had been uninhabited for the longest time. “Due to limited structural stability, no civil changes could be done,” mention the architects. One would reasonably assume the opportunities to get creative were scarce.