Forma Office
Our own working home: a single open floor of board-formed concrete, blackened steel and one very long table.
Project information
- Location
- Bengaluru, Karnataka
- Year
- 2025
- Type
- Studio headquarters
- Area
- 12,400 sq ft
- Scope
- Interior architecture, workplace strategy, joinery, lighting
- Status
- Completed
Design concept
One room, one table
We wanted a studio with no private offices and no meeting-room hierarchy. The floor is a single volume interrupted only by a service core, and the centre of it is an 18-metre table where every person in the practice works.
The building was a 1990s office shell. We removed the suspended ceiling and the raised floor, exposed the soffit, and left the services visible but ordered — everything runs parallel to the structural grid or perpendicular to it, never diagonally.
The only enclosed rooms are three acoustically sealed booths in blackened steel and glass, set free of the walls so the perimeter daylight is never blocked.
Material palette
What the room is made of
Board-formed concrete
Existing structure, cleaned and sealed matte.
Blackened steel
Hot-rolled, wax finished. Booths, shelving and stair.
Wool felt
12mm acoustic felt on all soffit rafts and booth linings.
Architecture
Decisions in plan and section
Soffit
Suspended ceiling removed across 12,400 sq ft, gaining 640mm of height and the full window head.
Core
Services pulled into one central spine so the perimeter is continuous glass on three sides.
Booths
Three freestanding steel-and-glass rooms, 48dB rated, structurally independent of the shell.
Interior
Decisions you can touch
The table
18 metres of 60mm solid oak in six sections, seating 34, with power dropped from above rather than run underneath.
Library
A 9-metre material library on the north wall, sample trays on full-extension runners.
Acoustics
Reverberation brought to 0.6s with felt rafts and a heavy curtain that closes the presentation end.
Gallery
Forma Office in sequence
Project facts
Project facts
9 months
Duration
34 at one table
Desks
640mm
Height gained
3
Enclosed rooms
Demo project — client and figures are sample content
