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PTC Office, Pune
Pune, India
Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2016
SIZE
25,000 sqft - 100,000 sqft
PTC Office, Pune
Over the last few decades, Pune - the second largest city in the state of Maharashtra - has grown to become the fifth most populous city in India. The population here skews young, with nearly 73% of the residents aged less than 50; as a direct consequence of rapid development in the tertiary sector, the city has grown to become a hub for information technology, education, industry, and entertainment. PTC (formerly Parametric Technology Corporation) is a global software company that specializes in the development of 2D & 3D design software. Some of their areas of concentration are Computer-Aided Design (CAD), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), and Service Management solutions. With an objective of transforming “the way [their customers] design, manufacture, operate, and service things for a smart, connected world”, PTC employs approximately 6,000 professionals worldwide and serves about 28,000 businesses.
With the decision made to expand their operations in India, PTC chose Pune as the site for their next venture to facilitate an IT-based R&D centre. Despite the rise of opportunities in the city – making it a perfect candidate for PTC’s base of operations – various challenges have also accompanied the growth and put an immense strain on Pune’s infrastructure. As the population swells and the urban sprawl grows farther and farther away from the city centre, the lack of a diversified means of transport – unlike Delhi or Mumbai – translates to the local populace relying solely on roads for their daily commute, spending hours travelling every day. The result is a tired and stressed workforce and subsequent jeopardization of the workplace environment.
It is this concern that Edifice sought to address for the PTC office that is housed on the second floor of the Weikfield IT Park (B-Block), in Viman Nagar. The commute is long and arduous, and the configuration of the tower poses several other restrictions – one of them being the 3.45m ceiling height, the other being the grid-patterned column layout infringing upon the continuity of the floor space. Hence, conceptualized as a tranquil oasis far removed from the clutter, pollution, and chaos of the city, the office has been designed to define spaces with minimal ostentation. The client brief called for an open office that facilitated team interactions and collaboration, accompanied by the usual milieu of meeting rooms, conference room, a boardroom, cabins, restrooms, visitor and lounge areas, and a pantry. The floor area available to PTC was 2695 sq.m, with square columns a meter wide. PTC, further, had defined the number of workspaces in the ratio of 110:9:2, for workstations, cubicles, and cabins – accompanied by 3 meetings rooms with an occupancy of 10 each. In addition to these specifications, the demands of the site, the placement of service cores in the South-Eastern and North-Western parts of the floor, and the orientation of the building along the West-Southwest to East-Northeast axis were all taken into consideration.
In line with the client's needs, the office space has been conceived as an open-plan layout with clustered workspaces, arranged on either side of a wide central spine, creating a total of 220 workspaces. The massive columns of the tower have been incorporated seamlessly into the layout – either acting as demarcators in cubicle clusters or concealed inside the service shafts along the central spine. This central spine acts as a focal point for the office, housing all the meeting areas and collaborative workspaces, with a distinct visual identity created by their cuboidal planforms, glass walls, low-hung ceilings, and asymmetric arrangements. On one end of this spine lies the lift lobby, along which the secondary axis runs, mirroring the passage on the other end of the spine. All attendant services – toilets, pantry, copy rooms, storage rooms, waiting areas, etc. – are placed beyond these axes, providing easy access for workers and visitors alike while leaving the central workspace free of any break in visual continuity. Workspaces for team leaders have been placed along these axes as well, giving them an unimpeded view of the rest of the office.
The workspace clusters are designed in modules of 4 or 6, arranged around the structural columns, creating 4 distinct rows on each side of the central spine; each side spans about 603 sq.m. of floor area. Break-out areas lay at the end of this primary axis, overlooking the curved facade glazing of the tower, a terminus to the workspace. Wide passages run along the structural walls, maximising ingress of natural light in the office; adjustable louvres have been installed on the western facade to cut the glare and control the level of illumination. To maximise ceiling heights, main ducting lines have been restricted to the corners, while subsidiary lines – shallower, in comparison – run across the main workspace. This ensures user comfort in the expansive office area, augmenting the spatial experience greatly.
Colour plays an important role here; a sea of sparkling white workspaces is juxtaposed with a colourful central collaborative zone, tied together by the dark grey ceiling and floor. A muted palette of cool pastels has been chosen for the main workspaces, to create a soothing ambience. Rooms along the central spine - in stark contrast - have vivid, monochromatic accents in blue, lime-green, and orange. The colour schemes have been chosen in anticipation of the user’s frame of mind – either calming and soothing them through a cool colour palette or inviting and welcoming them to a warmer one.
All services, further, have been concealed – either in specialized cabinets along structural columns or above the modular ceiling panels, endowing a sleek and clean aesthetic to the interiors. Diffusers and lights are also powder-coated to match the colour of their corresponding ceilings, blending seamlessly. The idea, essentially, has been of ‘de-cluttering’ the workspace by ensuring that no component inessential for a user is visible, the design minimizes visual noise and creates an environment conducive to high performance by the employees, owing to heightened concentration and reduced mental fatigue. These ‘inessential components’ include spaces vital for the functioning of the building – such as AHUs, electrical rooms, storage rooms, etc. and services such as HVAC and fire-safety conduits. Through the tactful layering of material and intersection of frames, all of these services are easily accessible at all times, but discreet in appearance.
The design also optimizes the use of technology to reduce the heat load; as the orientation of the tower causes excessive heating from the south-west side – exacerbated by the single-glazing, full-length glass windows – it was deemed imperative that climatic control measures be employed to reduce the need for mechanical air conditioning, as well as make the area abutting the affected side more hospitable. Manually operated louvres have thus been placed along the south-west facing side, to successfully deflect heat and glare and thus, reducing the carbon footprint of the building.
At the heart of the design lies the concern regarding the user’s comfort; not only has this concern shaped the very layout, materiality, and colour scheme of the project, it has also manifested itself into the extensive use of ergonomic furniture (Featherlite) in all workspaces. The resultant space has won immense favour with the client and users alike, setting a new benchmark for future campuses. Despite the significant challenges posed by the limited ceiling space available on the Tower floor, both in terms of daylight penetration and spatial comfort, the design has achieved far better results than are typically associated with such a high occupancy. The adjustable louvres employed to control day-lighting and glare, especially, are being implemented in other PTC offices, following the lead of this project.
Over the last few decades, Pune - the second largest city in the state of Maharashtra - has grown to become the fifth most populous city in India. The population here skews young, with nearly 73% of the residents aged less than 50; as a direct consequence of rapid development in the tertiary sector, the city has grown to become a hub for information technology, education, industry, and entertainment. PTC (formerly Parametric Technology Corporation) is a global software company that specializes in the development of 2D & 3D design software. Some of their areas of concentration are Computer-Aided Design (CAD), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), and Service Management solutions. With an objective of transforming “the way [their customers] design, manufacture, operate, and service things for a smart, connected world”, PTC employs approximately 6,000 professionals worldwide and serves about 28,000 businesses.
With the decision made to expand their operations in India, PTC chose Pune as the site for their next venture to facilitate an IT-based R&D centre. Despite the rise of opportunities in the city – making it a perfect candidate for PTC’s base of operations – various challenges have also accompanied the growth and put an immense strain on Pune’s infrastructure. As the population swells and the urban sprawl grows farther and farther away from the city centre, the lack of a diversified means of transport – unlike Delhi or Mumbai – translates to the local populace relying solely on roads for their daily commute, spending hours travelling every day. The result is a tired and stressed workforce and subsequent jeopardization of the workplace environment.
It is this concern that Edifice sought to address for the PTC office that is housed on the second floor of the Weikfield IT Park (B-Block), in Viman Nagar. The commute is long and arduous, and the configuration of the tower poses several other restrictions – one of them being the 3.45m ceiling height, the other being the grid-patterned column layout infringing upon the continuity of the floor space. Hence, conceptualized as a tranquil oasis far removed from the clutter, pollution, and chaos of the city, the office has been designed to define spaces with minimal ostentation. The client brief called for an open office that facilitated team interactions and collaboration, accompanied by the usual milieu of meeting rooms, conference room, a boardroom, cabins, restrooms, visitor and lounge areas, and a pantry. The floor area available to PTC was 2695 sq.m, with square columns a meter wide. PTC, further, had defined the number of workspaces in the ratio of 110:9:2, for workstations, cubicles, and cabins – accompanied by 3 meetings rooms with an occupancy of 10 each. In addition to these specifications, the demands of the site, the placement of service cores in the South-Eastern and North-Western parts of the floor, and the orientation of the building along the West-Southwest to East-Northeast axis were all taken into consideration.
In line with the client's needs, the office space has been conceived as an open-plan layout with clustered workspaces, arranged on either side of a wide central spine, creating a total of 220 workspaces. The massive columns of the tower have been incorporated seamlessly into the layout – either acting as demarcators in cubicle clusters or concealed inside the service shafts along the central spine. This central spine acts as a focal point for the office, housing all the meeting areas and collaborative workspaces, with a distinct visual identity created by their cuboidal planforms, glass walls, low-hung ceilings, and asymmetric arrangements. On one end of this spine lies the lift lobby, along which the secondary axis runs, mirroring the passage on the other end of the spine. All attendant services – toilets, pantry, copy rooms, storage rooms, waiting areas, etc. – are placed beyond these axes, providing easy access for workers and visitors alike while leaving the central workspace free of any break in visual continuity. Workspaces for team leaders have been placed along these axes as well, giving them an unimpeded view of the rest of the office.
The workspace clusters are designed in modules of 4 or 6, arranged around the structural columns, creating 4 distinct rows on each side of the central spine; each side spans about 603 sq.m. of floor area. Break-out areas lay at the end of this primary axis, overlooking the curved facade glazing of the tower, a terminus to the workspace. Wide passages run along the structural walls, maximising ingress of natural light in the office; adjustable louvres have been installed on the western facade to cut the glare and control the level of illumination. To maximise ceiling heights, main ducting lines have been restricted to the corners, while subsidiary lines – shallower, in comparison – run across the main workspace. This ensures user comfort in the expansive office area, augmenting the spatial experience greatly.
Colour plays an important role here; a sea of sparkling white workspaces is juxtaposed with a colourful central collaborative zone, tied together by the dark grey ceiling and floor. A muted palette of cool pastels has been chosen for the main workspaces, to create a soothing ambience. Rooms along the central spine - in stark contrast - have vivid, monochromatic accents in blue, lime-green, and orange. The colour schemes have been chosen in anticipation of the user’s frame of mind – either calming and soothing them through a cool colour palette or inviting and welcoming them to a warmer one.
All services, further, have been concealed – either in specialized cabinets along structural columns or above the modular ceiling panels, endowing a sleek and clean aesthetic to the interiors. Diffusers and lights are also powder-coated to match the colour of their corresponding ceilings, blending seamlessly. The idea, essentially, has been of ‘de-cluttering’ the workspace by ensuring that no component inessential for a user is visible, the design minimizes visual noise and creates an environment conducive to high performance by the employees, owing to heightened concentration and reduced mental fatigue. These ‘inessential components’ include spaces vital for the functioning of the building – such as AHUs, electrical rooms, storage rooms, etc. and services such as HVAC and fire-safety conduits. Through the tactful layering of material and intersection of frames, all of these services are easily accessible at all times, but discreet in appearance.
The design also optimizes the use of technology to reduce the heat load; as the orientation of the tower causes excessive heating from the south-west side – exacerbated by the single-glazing, full-length glass windows – it was deemed imperative that climatic control measures be employed to reduce the need for mechanical air conditioning, as well as make the area abutting the affected side more hospitable. Manually operated louvres have thus been placed along the south-west facing side, to successfully deflect heat and glare and thus, reducing the carbon footprint of the building.
At the heart of the design lies the concern regarding the user’s comfort; not only has this concern shaped the very layout, materiality, and colour scheme of the project, it has also manifested itself into the extensive use of ergonomic furniture (Featherlite) in all workspaces. The resultant space has won immense favour with the client and users alike, setting a new benchmark for future campuses. Despite the significant challenges posed by the limited ceiling space available on the Tower floor, both in terms of daylight penetration and spatial comfort, the design has achieved far better results than are typically associated with such a high occupancy. The adjustable louvres employed to control day-lighting and glare, especially, are being implemented in other PTC offices, following the lead of this project.
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