We design offices across Dubai, from a bare floor to a refit of the one you are in. We start by working out how many desks and meeting rooms actually fit. Then we draw the office design in enough detail for an office fit out contractor to price and build.
- 2021Designing in Dubai since
- 10Designers in the studio
- 3Offices designed
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Most office budgets go over because the floor was never tested properly. A plan that looks fine at a glance turns out to hold twelve fewer desks than you were promised. We settle that first, before anyone draws a wall.
Reception
The first thing a client sees and where your staff arrive every morning. We design it so the desk works for the person sitting at it, not only for the photograph.
Open plan floor
Desk spacing, circulation routes and where the noise ends up. How many people fit comfortably is a different number from how many fit.
Meeting rooms
How many you need, how big, and what sits on the wall. Rooms that are too large for two people are the most common waste on an office floor.
Private and manager offices
Where they sit against the glazing, and how much daylight the open floor keeps. Then whether the walls run to the ceiling or stop short so the air can move.
Pantry and breakout
Where people eat, make coffee and talk without disturbing the floor. Plumbing and extraction decide where this can go, so we fix it early.
Storage and the server room
The parts nobody puts on a mood board and everybody misses. Cabling, cooling and where the printer goes are decided before the layout is signed off.
Work
D43 at One Central, Breinrock in Business Bay and Versatile Group. DIFC, Downtown Dubai, Dubai Marina, JLT, Dubai Internet City, Dubai Media City, Sheikh Zayed Road and Dubai Design District are the other areas we cover.
Process
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Test fit
We take your headcount and your growth plan and test them against the floor plate. You get a plan showing exactly what fits before you sign a lease.
Budget
An office interior has no standard price, so we do not publish a price list.
The state the floor is handed over in
A bare floor with nothing on it costs far more than one where the ceiling, floor and air conditioning are already in. Ask what you are getting before you sign.
How many enclosed rooms
Every meeting room and private office brings walls, a door, glass, a ceiling change and its own air conditioning. Open floor is the cheapest square metre you have.
The finish level
The difference between a solid corporate standard and a flagship office moves the price more than the layout does. It is also the easiest thing to adjust.
Furniture
Desks, chairs, meeting tables and loose pieces are often a third of the total. This is the line that flexes most without changing the design.
Whether you keep working through it
Building around a team that still has to work means evening shifts, phased handovers and protection. An empty floor is quicker and cheaper.
Why us
What you get here that a company doing both the design and the building cannot offer you.
We test the floor before you sign
Knowing exactly what fits is worth more than any mood board. One hour of test fitting can stop you signing a lease on a floor that was never big enough.
We do not profit from the build
A company that designs and builds is paid for the construction as well as the design. We are not. Nobody here has a reason to approve a price we would otherwise question.
Drawings a contractor can price without guessing
Unclear drawings are why office budgets grow, because anything missing becomes an extra charge once work starts. Ours leave the contractor nothing to guess.
Building approvals handled
We prepare the drawings your building manager asks for and deal with their comments through to approval.
We are on site until it is finished
We do not hand over drawings and disappear. We answer the contractor's questions and approve the materials. Then we compare what gets built against what was drawn.
FAQ
Office interior design questions, answered
We design and draw. A fit out contractor builds from our drawings, and we stay on site through the work. If you want one company to design and build, we are not it. Better to know now.
The price depends on the state the floor is handed over in, how many enclosed rooms you need and the finish level. Furniture moves it again, and so does working around a team that stays in the building. We do not publish a price list. Send us the floor plan and your headcount, and we will come back with a fee.
A test fit is a plan showing how many desks, meeting rooms and phone booths fit on a floor. It tells you whether a floor is big enough before you commit to a lease. No other hour of design work saves as much money.
We give you a programme once we have seen the floor plan. The time depends on the size and on how many enclosed rooms you need. The build after it depends on your contractor. We work back from your move in date.
Sometimes, with the work phased and the rest of the floor sealed off. It costs more and takes longer than an empty floor, because most of the loud work has to happen outside office hours. We will tell you which yours is.
Yes, we prepare and submit the drawings your building manager asks for, and we deal with their comments through to approval. Most Dubai buildings set their own rules on what you may change and which contractors may work there.
Yes, an office renovation is most of what we are asked for. Reworking a floor you already occupy is a different job from starting on a bare one. The timeline has to work around people still using the space.
Yes, and we do it often. We handle the interior design and the drawings, and we coordinate with whoever is already on the project. We issue a set they can price and build from, then stay on site through the work.
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