Ornate in Orange Amplus, Gurugram Studio Archohm, Noida

“It’s all about finding the calm in the chaos”

— Donna Karan

The brief was to design the interiors of the company whose product was a solar panel. Positioned on the sixth floor of a corporate building– Palm Springs– in Gurgaon, it exemplified the quintessential glass- clad container architecture of this typology. The challenge was to not only provide the work environment that nurtured the young, vibrant character of the

people but to feed their explicit desire to do away with the frills of formality and office hierarchy and opt for more egalitarian openness that encouraged interaction. The brief also expressed a need to facilitate a generic invitational gesture towards the numerous and frequent visitors. And the budget constraint was a determinant in the design ideation and process.

The glazing that enveloped the office, making it a receptacle for an enormous quantum of sunlight generated the spatiality, both literally