design, a layered legal office

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pics at random.
1. entrance showing a slick white color glass cladding and their bronze signage brought over from their old office.
2. modular work station in the general office.
3. lobby viewed from the general office, behind the tempered glass door, also overlooking the convertible meeting rooms.
4. the main circulation spine of the office, left is the main book/file rack, right is the modular workstations.
5. along the main spine from the meeting room showing the various layerings.
6. detail design of the workstation

Well, juz wanna share with u guys a recently completed interior fitting-out which i can proudly claim that it is totally designed and construct by me. It's my brother's legal office kat the new business centre call Jaya 1 along Jalan Universiti. The office is Rozlan Khuen, so that's why la, dia bagi free hand. But reaching the end of the project, dia pulak nak get involved more and more, rendering some changes in some material selections which made it slightly departed from the minimalism theme yg i already set out to achieve.

Anyways, it was a good project to stamp some mark. Because of the heavily applied functional and pragmatic designs approach, it was not too arty but still intersting nontheless, i think la, because the bosses were still unable to depart from the norms and the conventionals of their daily lifes.

However, every piece of design produced out of passion is always full of satisfaction. So, that's exactly what I got at least. Something which we want to appreciate time and again. Should u see some design which the architect or interior guy is not proud of, is definitely not carried out with passion, because there aint pride in it.

This one was a real charity job, in fact to factor in my time and telecommunication bills and petrol and my stress and obligations, it's a real big present for the company. At times, when one look at it, one get pissed off, because there aint a single cent of return, but when we focus of the 'piece' and the modules and the whole system working and running well, custom made to the occupants, one will tend to smile. Having said that, it must be the last charity job I will ever embark.

In architecture, the monetary remuneration has never commensurate. NEVER. But the satisfaction does in a way or two. Not to mention charity stuff. Talking about charity, charity actually means writing off the profit, covering cost. So, in architecture, was there even profit? Not to mention covering cost. Nope.

OK, to those who does not know what was my involvement in the whole office, whatever u see, has my part in it, well, except the DELL comnputers and the printers. The glass, the pivoted doors, the shelves, the workstation module, the space plannings, the hanging racks, the lightings.

Theme wise, it started off being minimalist industrial, raw steel, glass, but it was slowly turned into contemporary, which was, ok lahhh. At least not "majlis" as in, like those in Majlis Daerah/Perbandaran Kajang or JKR. At least it was also not corporate which is, err, ask Upiq la.

Conceptually, I was trying to create a more condusive working environ to the staff and partitioning spaces without showing hierarchy and borer, and order while giving all the spaces some layering. There are no 2 walls or partitions which meets. It is either separated by a long slim full height glass or a corner glass effectively turning a wall into a nice plane instead of making a room boxy as in usual...rooms.

When the pics were taken, the pivoted floor to ceiling door of the meeting rooms were yet to be erected, but it gave the whole theme a planes and flat look. Doors were without those typical chunky frames. That's the overall concept.

Well, this interior was my second full scale commercial job interior design job, which I took on, regardless whether it was monetorily motivated or not. So, design does not necessary confines to architecture alone, but in all facets of life.

Do u want me to design u? kakaka.