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Corporate Offices for a Japanese IT Behemoth
Corporate Offices for a Japanese IT Behemoth
Bengaluru, India
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Corporate Offices for a Japanese IT Behemoth
Bengaluru, India
The design of the new offices for a leading Japanese ICT company in Bengaluru could have been another expression of corporate uniformity, defined by clean lines, neutral tones, and a pared-back palette synonymous with Japanese minimalism, replicated across continents. The client, building its Indian research and development operations, had global design standards that governed their offices worldwide. The brief was straightforward: a combination of fixed and agile workstations, an arrival space convertible into a large gathering venue, and the visual discipline that defined their international presence.
Yet, early in the design conversations, a clear intent emerged: to honour Japanese design principles while embracing the richness of Indian craft and colour. The design of the workplace reflects the shared synergy between the two cultures, ensuring they don't merely co-exist but engage in meaningful dialogue.
The planning eschews the regimented cubicle farm approach and adopts a diagonal layout that activates the entire floor plate, creating a variety of spatial experiences rather than repetitive corridors. The resultant plan produces intimate pockets, informal breakout zones, and compact work lounges that remain fully activated. Meeting rooms and support functions are placed near the core, liberating the entire perimeter for workstations and shared areas, which receive diffused natural light throughout the day, lending the workspace a calm, open quality.
At the reception, an origami-inspired acoustic felt fan anchors the space, alongside baffle walls made of slender 50mm wooden fins that add lightness and rhythm. Overhead, metal loops and curved gypsum panels bring a gentle sense of movement, carrying through into the main circulation spine. The material palette strikes a clear balance—rooted in Japanese restraint and precision, but softened by Indian craft details and more fluid forms.
From the reception, the space flows directly into a work café with relaxed seating that creates an active threshold for informal meetings and spontaneous conversations. Adjacent to it sits a stepped amphitheatre supported by a nearby pantry, forming the social anchor of the entire floor. The amphitheatre is designed to host anything from casual team lunches to high‐visibility product launches and leadership addresses. Castor-mounted furniture enables quick reconfiguration, allowing the space to shift between modes with minimal effort.
When larger gatherings demand more capacity, three meeting rooms with movable acoustic partitions expand the venue further. The partitions retract to create a continuous zone that extends from the café through the amphitheatre and into the meeting area, accommodating up to 120 people for company-wide town halls. The stepped seating of the amphitheatre references traditional Indian stepwells, a subtle cultural nod that sits comfortably within the contemporary setting.
Specific workspace clusters are designed to challenge common assumptions about agile environments. Instead of lightweight touchdown points meant for short stints, these workstations are designed as fully equipped, ergonomically sound settings where people can work comfortably for longer stretches.
The agile workspaces are placed near the perimeter to ensure abundant access to daylight, giving every workstation a visual link to the outdoors. The angled geometry naturally introduces degrees of privacy and openness, allowing the workspace to feel expansive without losing its human scale.
Across the floor plate, quiet pods support deep-focus work while semi-open collaboration areas accommodate group discussions. Together, they support a range of working styles—from focused tasks to team huddles, responding to the needs and the preferences of the people using it.
The boardroom, placed on one end, features a perforated laminated wooden ceiling that showcases meticulous detailing, embodying the Japanese principle of craft serving purpose. Smaller meeting rooms occupy positions within the central core, freeing the perimeter for daylight-dependent functions. Phone booths framed with wooden shoji-style sliding doors offer private spaces for calls and focused work, their translucent aesthetic providing acoustic separation while maintaining visual lightness. The varied scale and character of meeting spaces—from the formal boardroom to casual collaboration nooks—ensure the office can support every mode of interaction the work demands.
A narrative of Indian and Japanese art and crafts is embedded into the spatial experience. Koi swim alongside Pichwai iconography. Japanese fans feature Madhubani patterns. The iconic Great Wave by Hokusai echoes in Kalamkari textile prints. Peacocks perch under the shade of cherry blossom trees. Even the frosted glazing on the doors carry origami-inspired motifs, a quiet nod to the Japanese influence within the broader craft narrative. The deliberate pairing of Indian and Japanese elements creates harmony and a sense of visual interest between traditions often perceived as distant and unrelated.
The material palette translates these ideas into a tangible experience. Warm South Indian colours—ochres, terracottas, deep greens—appear in loose furniture, workstation graphics, and wayfinding elements, grounding the restrained foundation in regional warmth. A colour-coded zoning system using green, blue, and purple aids intuitive wayfinding across the floor plate, representing a departure from the company's global red-only brand guidelines—a significant gesture that allowed the design to embrace a broader, more regionally expressive palette. Bamboo lights punctuate key zones with handcrafted softness, their organic forms and natural material bringing tactility to overhead planes.
Biophilia is woven into the spatial composition rather than applied as afterthought. Greenery populates the layout in strategic nooks and corners, encouraging brief pauses and interactions. Peripheral greens adjoining the agile workstations create gentle transitions between interior and exterior. The layering brings nature into the daily experience, offering moments of serenity within a high-performance setting.
The art programme, craft-driven details, and material palette operate in tandem with technical infrastructure. The warm colour accents, bamboo lighting, textile references, and handcrafted details function as spatial organisers and experiential markers, balanced against the restraint and order that define the Japanese design. The project reconciles the company’s global presence with a rooted, Indo-Japanese narrative, finding points of intersection between distinct aesthetic traditions and allowing both vocabularies to coexist within a unified environment.
Yet, early in the design conversations, a clear intent emerged: to honour Japanese design principles while embracing the richness of Indian craft and colour. The design of the workplace reflects the shared synergy between the two cultures, ensuring they don't merely co-exist but engage in meaningful dialogue.
The planning eschews the regimented cubicle farm approach and adopts a diagonal layout that activates the entire floor plate, creating a variety of spatial experiences rather than repetitive corridors. The resultant plan produces intimate pockets, informal breakout zones, and compact work lounges that remain fully activated. Meeting rooms and support functions are placed near the core, liberating the entire perimeter for workstations and shared areas, which receive diffused natural light throughout the day, lending the workspace a calm, open quality.
At the reception, an origami-inspired acoustic felt fan anchors the space, alongside baffle walls made of slender 50mm wooden fins that add lightness and rhythm. Overhead, metal loops and curved gypsum panels bring a gentle sense of movement, carrying through into the main circulation spine. The material palette strikes a clear balance—rooted in Japanese restraint and precision, but softened by Indian craft details and more fluid forms.
From the reception, the space flows directly into a work café with relaxed seating that creates an active threshold for informal meetings and spontaneous conversations. Adjacent to it sits a stepped amphitheatre supported by a nearby pantry, forming the social anchor of the entire floor. The amphitheatre is designed to host anything from casual team lunches to high‐visibility product launches and leadership addresses. Castor-mounted furniture enables quick reconfiguration, allowing the space to shift between modes with minimal effort.
When larger gatherings demand more capacity, three meeting rooms with movable acoustic partitions expand the venue further. The partitions retract to create a continuous zone that extends from the café through the amphitheatre and into the meeting area, accommodating up to 120 people for company-wide town halls. The stepped seating of the amphitheatre references traditional Indian stepwells, a subtle cultural nod that sits comfortably within the contemporary setting.
Specific workspace clusters are designed to challenge common assumptions about agile environments. Instead of lightweight touchdown points meant for short stints, these workstations are designed as fully equipped, ergonomically sound settings where people can work comfortably for longer stretches.
The agile workspaces are placed near the perimeter to ensure abundant access to daylight, giving every workstation a visual link to the outdoors. The angled geometry naturally introduces degrees of privacy and openness, allowing the workspace to feel expansive without losing its human scale.
Across the floor plate, quiet pods support deep-focus work while semi-open collaboration areas accommodate group discussions. Together, they support a range of working styles—from focused tasks to team huddles, responding to the needs and the preferences of the people using it.
The boardroom, placed on one end, features a perforated laminated wooden ceiling that showcases meticulous detailing, embodying the Japanese principle of craft serving purpose. Smaller meeting rooms occupy positions within the central core, freeing the perimeter for daylight-dependent functions. Phone booths framed with wooden shoji-style sliding doors offer private spaces for calls and focused work, their translucent aesthetic providing acoustic separation while maintaining visual lightness. The varied scale and character of meeting spaces—from the formal boardroom to casual collaboration nooks—ensure the office can support every mode of interaction the work demands.
A narrative of Indian and Japanese art and crafts is embedded into the spatial experience. Koi swim alongside Pichwai iconography. Japanese fans feature Madhubani patterns. The iconic Great Wave by Hokusai echoes in Kalamkari textile prints. Peacocks perch under the shade of cherry blossom trees. Even the frosted glazing on the doors carry origami-inspired motifs, a quiet nod to the Japanese influence within the broader craft narrative. The deliberate pairing of Indian and Japanese elements creates harmony and a sense of visual interest between traditions often perceived as distant and unrelated.
The material palette translates these ideas into a tangible experience. Warm South Indian colours—ochres, terracottas, deep greens—appear in loose furniture, workstation graphics, and wayfinding elements, grounding the restrained foundation in regional warmth. A colour-coded zoning system using green, blue, and purple aids intuitive wayfinding across the floor plate, representing a departure from the company's global red-only brand guidelines—a significant gesture that allowed the design to embrace a broader, more regionally expressive palette. Bamboo lights punctuate key zones with handcrafted softness, their organic forms and natural material bringing tactility to overhead planes.
Biophilia is woven into the spatial composition rather than applied as afterthought. Greenery populates the layout in strategic nooks and corners, encouraging brief pauses and interactions. Peripheral greens adjoining the agile workstations create gentle transitions between interior and exterior. The layering brings nature into the daily experience, offering moments of serenity within a high-performance setting.
The art programme, craft-driven details, and material palette operate in tandem with technical infrastructure. The warm colour accents, bamboo lighting, textile references, and handcrafted details function as spatial organisers and experiential markers, balanced against the restraint and order that define the Japanese design. The project reconciles the company’s global presence with a rooted, Indo-Japanese narrative, finding points of intersection between distinct aesthetic traditions and allowing both vocabularies to coexist within a unified environment.
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