Minimal. Industrial. Quirky.

PROJECT

Motherland Office


AREA

3000 Sqft.


ROLE

Interior Design


TEAM

Himanshu Chopra


STATUS

Completed 2017

The site is an old warehouse, previously used as a rice granary and had to be refashioned into an office space for the company. The existing structure has brick masonry walls and piers that support a sloping ‘Flat Truss’ system topped with asbestos sheet to form the roof.


The idea was to preserve the warehouse and have a straight forward layout for the office in an industrial aesthetic using clean and minimalist design details. The door and window sizes needed to be increased, along with the addition of a few windows to maximize the natural daylight in the interior spaces making them feel more positive which in turn should inspire its users into action.


The project needed to have a frugal yet sophisticated looking construction. The material palette was kept simple and majorly restricted to timber and glass.


Project undertaken working with principal architect Akshat Bhatt at

Architecture Discipline. Architecture Discipline owns sole copyright to the images. Photographs by Jeetin Sharma.



The exterior of the office is painted white while the steel door and window frames in Georgian geometries with metal flashing and steel beam lintels are painted black; The interior walls are in a charcoal blackboard paint in juxtaposition with the external white paint and the timber sections have been painted with murky green highlights.


The wall grazing down lighters under the eave on the side elevation wash the wall and underscore the inherent texture of the naturally worn out exposed brickwork; bracketed well lamps on either side of the four meter wide door mark the entrance.