The design of Bajaj Electricals' corporate office aimed to create an efficient work environment while adhering to strict guidelines. The office layout had to accommodate cabins for senior managers, cubicles, and workstations while maintaining an orthogonal floorplan as required by traditional Indian principles. To address this challenge, meeting rooms were strategically placed to separate public and work areas. Enclosed spaces were located along the perimeter to maximize natural light in the workstations. Glazed partitions allowed daylight into cabins while maintaining privacy. Energy-efficient lighting, HVAC, and an orientation tapping maximum daylight helped reduce the building's environmental impact.

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OFFICE IN INDIA
_Collaborative Architecture
The design for Bajaj Electricals corporate office is an attempt to take the project The design challenge was to accommodate these highly debilitating guidelines, yet
above the functional contingencies of a regular corporate work place brief, evolve a ‘design narrative’ which will cleverly mask the ubiquitous gridded plan.
imbibing the space with an architectural character that would generate unparallel Meeting room is placed strategically to segregate the public inter face with the work
work efficiency. inter face. The contrasting dark colour and the free flowing envelope of its space
The project had typical straight jacketed, hierarchical brief for a corporate office, clearly generate a spatial boundar y between Public-Work realms.
with cabins for senior managers, cubicles for mid-level managers and workstations Enclosed spaces like senior manager cabins, conference, staff utility areas are
for executives, meeting room conference room, staff area and ser vice areas. The positioned along one of the sides, allowing the workstations to be positioned to tap
brief was also emphasised to have or thogonal spaces in the office, in line with maximum day lighting.
traditional Indian ‘Vastu’ principles. The cabins have glazed par titions separating them from the workspace, allowing the
Sustainability as an active strategy was fundamental theme right from the inception day light to penetrate in to the cabin spaces. Collaborative designed the architectural
of concept design through selection of green rated products, active tools to cut graphics on the wall to ensure adequate privacy in the cabin area.
down the energy consumption, day light har vesting and the general orientation of Ever y cabin, passages and entr y foyers are provided with active tools to cut down the
the work floor to tap maximum day light and reduce the south exposure to cut down lighting load. The office is equipped with state of the ar t HVAC and BMS to make it
cooling load. truly energy efficient.
OFFICE Design_ Collaborative Architecture Photography_ Lalita Tharani Country_ India Client_ Bajaj Electricals Ltd.

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