What does it mean to design an office to elevation level?

It means each principal room is drawn as a furniture plan plus every wall it has — elevations A, B, C and D — with the panelling, veneer, laminate, metal beading and lighting marked on each. A rendered view shows intent; an elevation is what a carpenter can price and build. Where only views exist, the detail gets decided on site, by whoever is standing there.

How do you plan an office across two floors of the same building?

Repeat one logic rather than designing two different floors. Here both floors put cabins along the glazed edge, departments in the middle and services at the core, so anyone who learns one floor already knows the other. What changes is which departments sit where, and which floor carries the main conference room.

Where should a pooja room go in an office?

Off the reception end, reachable without walking through a department. In this plan it sits beside the reception with its own door, about 14 feet across, designed as a room with a backlit niche and a stone platform. Planned in, it is used properly; added later, it becomes a shelf in a store room.

Should office partitions be full height or low height?

Both, deliberately. This study uses full-height partitions in veneer where a room needs acoustic separation, low-height partitions in mica where a department needs definition but not privacy, and glass partitions with slim aluminium profiles where the floor needs to borrow daylight. Choosing one type for the whole floor is what makes an office feel either sealed or exposed.

What is borrowed ventilation in an office fit-out?

It is ventilating an internal room — typically a toilet with no external wall — through an adjacent space or a duct run to the facade. It has to be planned with the services layout, because the route needs a ceiling void and a discharge point. The plan here marks it on the internal toilets, which is exactly when it should be decided.

Can you design and build an office like this in Gurugram?

Yes. Send the floor plate and headcount and we will plan it the same way, draw the principal rooms to elevation level, and build it under one contract — interiors, services and furniture.

Office Interior Design Gurugram: Two Floors

The brief

One company taking two floors of an office tower in Gurugram: directors, finance, HR and sales, with the meeting load and the amenities that go with them.

Two floors in the same building is a different problem from two floors in two buildings. The lifts, the core and the structure are fixed and identical, so the useful question is not how to make each floor distinctive — it is how much of one floor to repeat on the other.

Two floors, one logic

Both plans do the same three things:

Cabins and director rooms along the glazed edge, where the daylight is.
Departments in the middle, in low-partitioned blocks: finance and HR on one floor, sales and accounts on the other.
Services at the core — lifts, staircase, shaft, toilets — with reception facing them.

Repeating that logic is worth more than variety. Anyone who learns one floor already knows the other: the conference room is off reception on both, the pantry is by the core on both, and the toilets are in the same place. What changes is only which departments sit where, and which floor carries the main conference room.

Dimensions are drawn in feet and inches, as most fit-out drawings in this market still are: the conference room at roughly 21 ft 11 in by 14 ft, the meeting room at 11 ft 2 in by 10 ft 2 in, an HR department block at 11 ft 3 in by 8 ft 10 in, reception at about 13 ft by 17 ft with a built-in seat rather than a separate waiting room.

Drawn to elevation level

This is the part worth borrowing from, whoever designs your office.

Each principal room here is drawn twice: a furniture plan, and then every wall it has as elevations A, B, C and D, with the finishes marked on each one — fluted panel, dark veneer, light panel, metal beading, laminate, veneer with a mural pattern. The conference room and the MD cabin both get a full sheet.

The difference is not presentational. A rendered view tells you the intent; an elevation tells a carpenter where the joint falls, how tall the panelling runs and which side the beading sits on. Where only views exist, those decisions get made on site by whoever is standing there — and they are then paid for twice, once in material and once in rework.

It is also how you find problems early. Drawing the MD cabin's four walls is what forces the questions of where the safe goes, how the planted corner is served, and whether the door swings into the visitor chair.

Partitions: three types, on purpose

The plan marks three different partition systems, and the mix is the design:

Where	What	Why
Cabins and conference room	Full-height partition, veneer finish	Acoustic separation for rooms where confidentiality matters
Department blocks	Low-height partition, mica finish	Defines a team without sealing it, and keeps sightlines across the floor
Reception, meeting room edges	Glass partition, slim aluminium profile in a rose-gold PVD finish	Borrows daylight from the glazed edge into the middle of the plate

Using one type everywhere is what makes an office feel either sealed or exposed. The drawings also mark an access-controlled door into one department, and borrowed ventilation for the internal toilets — both decisions that have to be made with the services layout rather than after it.

The rooms most plans leave out

A pooja room with its own door. About 14 feet across, off the reception end, with a backlit niche and a stone platform. It is on the plan from the start, which is the only way it ends up as a room rather than a shelf in a store.

An executive lounge. Panelled, with armchairs and a low table, for the conversation that happens before a meeting starts or after it ends. In its absence that conversation occupies the conference room for another half hour.

A sculpture niche at the lift lobby, marked on the plan. A small thing, but it means the first thing a visitor sees leaving the lift was designed rather than left over.

Cafeteria, pantry and the open floor

The cafeteria takes one long table instead of scattered fours — it seats more people in the same area and reads as one room. The pantry is separate, so tea service through the day does not cross lunch.

On the open floor, storage units topped with planting do the screening instead of desk partitions: privacy at seated height, greenery at standing height, and one piece of furniture doing two jobs. Where the plate runs deep and daylight thins out, wall graphics and a textured plaster finish give that side of the floor something to look at.

What to settle before construction drawings

Which floor gets the main conference room, and therefore which floor visitors reach.
Department adjacencies — finance next to HR is a different floor from finance next to sales, and moving a department later moves partitions and power.
How much is drawn to elevation level. Every room is ideal; the principal rooms are the minimum.
Access control: which doors, and who administers them.
Ventilation routes for internal rooms, agreed with the services drawings.
Whether both floors are built together. Phasing changes procurement and the site sequence more than it changes the design.