Workplace design and fit-out drawings, Dubai
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.
Tell us about your office
Free consultation and site survey. Share a few details and our design team will contact you to arrange it.
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The usual story
A fit-out is judged on the day people move in, and decided months before that.
A plan drawn for today's team has nowhere to put next year's, so the layout is reworked while the build is already running.
Ceilings, cooling and power are resolved around partitions that were placed first, which is how a meeting room ends up under a diffuser.
Base-build conditions and fit-out guidelines are read once the design is signed off, and the design changes to suit them.
Process
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Free 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.
You receiveA plan showing how many desks, meeting rooms and support spaces the floor actually holds, before you commit to the lease.
Area by area
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.
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.
Desk spacing, circulation routes and where the noise ends up. How many people fit comfortably is a different number from how many fit.
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.
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.
Where people eat, make coffee and talk without disturbing the floor. Plumbing and extraction decide where this can go, so we fix it early.
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 DIFC, Versatile Group in Dubai Silicon Oasis and Dezigntechnic in Dubai Design District. DIFC, Downtown Dubai, Dubai Marina, JLT, Dubai Internet City, Dubai Media City and Sheikh Zayed Road are the other areas we cover.
Our story
We founded Conceptor in Dubai in 2021 to design architecture, interiors and landscape as one process. When one team tests the fit, designs the space and draws it properly, you know what the floor holds before you sign the lease.
Today we are an award-winning studio. Our architects, interior designers, visual artists and strategists work with private clients and developers across the MENA region. Every office starts with how your team actually works, and every drawing follows it.
The Conceptor team
Design studio, Dubai
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Why us
What you get here that a company doing both the design and the building cannot offer you.
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.
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.
Unclear drawings are why office budgets grow, because anything missing becomes an extra charge once work starts. Ours leave the contractor nothing to guess.
We prepare the drawings your building manager asks for and deal with their comments through to approval.
What owners say
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FAQ
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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Send us the property, the scope and roughly what you have in mind. We will come back with how we would run it.
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