We were excited to do a lawyer’s office since we had a very chilled Parsi client with a great collection of law books. Located on the 7th floor of a commercial building in Ahmedabad, ( empty office? )  the site was quite linear with a width of 14 feet and a length of 51 feet. The North and west were both glass facades, with the west side being shaded by the adjoining building. The brief was quite simple : a waiting area, employee space, a meeting space and a head cabin.

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One of our first decisions was to sequence the spaces in such a way that one moves from the most public to the most private spaces. In doing so, and by understanding the workings of a small scale law firm, we could convince the clients to eliminate the need for an exclusive corridor and overlap the movement space with workspaces. 

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There were a lot of things in the office.  -  books, files, printers, papers, Screens for presentation , coat hanger, plants, manure for them, shoes, artwork, sculpture etc. We needed to have defined spaces for all of these. We were sceptical about dedicating any space towards a separate storage room because that would mean we would have to cut short on other spaces.

So we decided to use this 43’ long wall for these essentials with a structure that is flexible enough to house them all. This is how the wall unit was composed with two  8’ x 6’  MS perforated sliding shutter as file storage and server space in the employee room, The meeting and main space had a play of mass and void within a metal frame structure where the mass is veneer finish boxes for closed storage, the wooden shelf voids are for books and perforated metal boxes for plants. 

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