Industrial Company Office Design, Delhi: Two Floors, Two Finish Options

Our concept design for the head office of a metals manufacturer in Delhi: two floors planned for 72 workpoints, with reception and cabins on one, the MD room and conference rooms on the other, and two finish options on the same plan. Option 01 is oak, greige and sage on terrazzo-look floors; option 02 is oak, mineral blue and pearl on woven carpet.

Concept design. The layouts and views below are our own design work, produced by Hagerstone's design team. They are not a record of a completed project, and the client is not identified.

By Dhruv Agarwal · · 6 min read

Eight-seat conference room with an oak table, sage chairs, an end-wall screen and a stretched-fabric light above

The brief

The head office of a metals manufacturer: the second and third floors of a building in Delhi, with a front road on one side and a service lane on the other. The office holds the leadership, the commercial and accounts teams, and room to grow.

The client asked for two things that pull in different directions: a dense working floor for 72 workpoints, and an office that feels like a company with a history, not a rented floor. The design answers the first with a mix of desk types, and the second with materials instead of logos.

Seating: one brief, three desk types

Workpoint2nd floor3rd floorTotal
Straight desks282250
L-shaped cubicles4610
L-shaped workstations437
Large cabin hosts123
MD011
Reception101
Staff workpoints383472

Fourteen of the 72 are future positions, held for hires that have not happened yet. Meeting chairs are additional: four on the second floor and eight on the third.

The reference plans seat 62, not 72. The plans shown here carry 36 and 26 workpoints. Fitting the full brief, and the latest Vastu zoning, needs a coordinated furniture layout before construction drawings. We show the gap rather than hide it. A seat count drawn on a plan is the one number a client can check, so it has to be one the floor really holds.

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How the two floors divide the work

Second floor: arrival and the working teams. Reception sits at the road end with a company-history wall, a timeline and image panels, next to two glazed cabins. Desk banks fill the middle of the floor, and L-shaped cubicles and toilets sit at the service-lane end. The mandir opens off the arrival side, so it is reached without crossing the desks.

Third floor: leadership and meetings. The road end holds the MD room, an eight-seat conference room and a four-seat meeting room. The workstations and L-shaped cubicles repeat the floor below, so services, desk power and data run on the same lines on both floors.

The L-shaped cubicles go to people who take calls or handle confidential files, with higher fabric screens on two sides. The L-shaped workstations give a return surface to those who need a second screen or drawings. Everyone else sits at straight desks, the most efficient position in floor area. Matching the desk to the job is what lets 72 people fit without the floor feeling packed.

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The company makes wire, so the office is decorated with it. Wave-form steel-wire art hangs in the cabins and along the work floor. A wire halo frames the mandir, and the glazed partitions carry a wave-pattern privacy film drawn from the same line. Wavy glass and a coil of steel wire sit on both material boards.

This keeps the identity in the room without a logo on every wall. Visitors see what the business is about, staff do not work under a sign, and the artwork is the easiest thing in the office to change later.

Two finish options on one plan

Option 01Option 02
PaletteOak, greige and champagneOak, mineral blue and pearl
FloorTerrazzo-look tileWoven carpet
UpholsterySageDusty blue
WallsWarm greigePale mineral blue
MetalGraphiteGraphite
CharacterBright, hard-wearing, easy to cleanQuieter, softer, cooler in tone

Both options share the same layout, furniture and joinery: oak desks on graphite frames, fabric screens, rounded oak storage with planters, and continuous service boxing that hides the AC pipework along the walls. Only the finishes change, which keeps the choice reversible until the materials are ordered.

The real decision between them is the floor. Terrazzo-look tile is brighter and simpler to clean but reflects sound, so a busy floor gets louder. Carpet absorbs that noise but needs more upkeep where people walk most.

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The leadership rooms

The MD room is planned in natural oak with a sofa, two visitor chairs and filtered daylight through roller blinds. The conference room seats eight around an oak table, with an end-wall screen, a full-length glass writing board and a stretched-fabric light panel above the table instead of a grid of downlights. The private cabins take a desk, two visitor chairs and a sliding glass door with the wave-pattern film at eye level.

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Mandir, pantry and washrooms

These are common to both options. The mandir is a small room behind oak sliding doors, with a backlit wire halo, warm indirect light and a floating cabinet that keeps the floor clear for cleaning. The pantry has smooth oak doors, a stone backsplash and an under-counter fridge. The washrooms use wall-hung fixtures, a floating vanity and a backlit mirror, which make the floor quicker to clean and the room feel larger.

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An optional facade refresh

The office floors sit above street-level shops, and the existing front is a patchwork of cladding, glazing and signage. Three concept directions were drawn for an optional makeover of the building front:

  • Ivory Portals: stone-look mineral-core panels, bronze-toned window frames and deep vertical bays that bring order to the upper floors.
  • Wire Screen: satin-silver panels and slender fins, with woven stainless-steel screens either side of a clear glazed centre, the same wire theme as the interior.
  • Champagne Frames: pearl-ivory panels, champagne formed profiles with soft corners, and warm linear light recessed into each frame.

All three keep the building structure and entrance positions in principle, keep the ground-floor tenants' frontage and the separate staircase entrance clear, and leave the final alignment to a measured elevation. Work on a shared frontage also depends on agreement between the building owner and its tenants.

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What to settle before construction drawings

  • The coordinated 72-position layout, checked against chair clearances, access and exit routes rather than desk count alone.
  • Vastu zoning for the MD room, mandir, reception and pantry, settled before the partitions are fixed, because moving a cabin later moves walls, power and data.
  • The finish option, which mainly means the floor: terrazzo-look tile or carpet.
  • AC and service routes, so the continuous boxing along the walls is sized once.
  • Which history and product images go on the reception wall, and their lighting.
  • Whether the facade refresh goes ahead, which needs the owner's and tenants' agreement first.

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Taking it to site

We design and build offices like this one as a single contract, from the concept options to the handover, across Delhi NCR: office design and build · turnkey office fit-out · office interiors in Delhi · more of our designs

Planning a head office for a manufacturing business? Send the floor plans and your headcount by role. Talk to the design team.

The two floors

Reference plans for both floors, front road on the left and service lane on the right. The layout is the same in both finish options.

Rendered top-down plan of an office floor with two cabins at the road end, oak desk banks, L-shaped cubicles and toilets at the service end
Second floor: reception and two cabins at the road end, desk banks in the middle, L-shaped cubicles and toilets at the service lane.
Rendered top-down plan of an office floor with an MD room, an eight-seat conference room, a meeting room, desk banks and L-shaped cubicles
Third floor: the MD room, conference and meeting rooms take the road end; the workstations and cubicles repeat the floor below.

Option 01: oak, greige and champagne

Terrazzo-look floors, sage upholstery and graphite metal: bright, hard-wearing and easy to keep clean.

Material board with oak veneer, greige and champagne laminate, terrazzo-look tile, sage fabric, wavy glass, graphite metal and a steel wire
Option 01: oak, greige and champagne, with terrazzo-look floors, sage fabric and graphite metal.
Open office with oak desks on graphite frames, sage fabric screens, planted storage and a terrazzo-look floor
Option 01 workplace: oak desks on graphite frames, sage screens and planted storage. Indicative viewpoint.
Eight-seat conference room with an oak table, sage chairs, an end-wall screen, a glass writing board and a stretched-fabric light above
Conference room: eight chairs, an end-wall screen and glass writing board, lit from a stretched-fabric panel. Indicative viewpoint.
Small private cabin with an oak desk, two sage visitor chairs, steel-wire wall art and a sliding glass door with wave-pattern film
Private cabin with wire wall art and a wave-pattern privacy film on the sliding door. Indicative viewpoint.

Option 02: oak, mineral blue and pearl

Woven carpet, dusty blue fabric and pale blue walls: quieter underfoot and cooler in tone.

Material board with oak veneer, pearl solid surface, woven grey-blue carpet, dusty blue fabric, wavy glass and graphite metal
Option 02: oak, mineral blue and pearl, with woven carpet, dusty blue fabric and graphite metal.
Carpeted open office with oak desks, blue fabric screens, mineral blue walls, a wire artwork and continuous boxing behind the AC units
Option 02 workplace, with continuous service boxing hiding the AC pipework along the wall. Indicative viewpoint.
L-shaped workstation with blue fabric screens, a monitor arm and a rounded oak storage unit topped with a planter
An L-shaped workpoint: fabric screens, soft corners and a planted oak storage end. Indicative viewpoint.
Eight-seat conference room with blue chairs on carpet, an oak table, an end-wall screen and a glass writing board
The same conference room in option 02: carpet, blue upholstery and pale blue walls. Indicative viewpoint.

Common to both options

The rooms that stay the same whichever finish is chosen.

Compact office pantry with smooth oak cabinets, an under-counter fridge, a stone backsplash and a lit open shelf
Pantry, common to both options: smooth oak doors and a stone backsplash. Indicative viewpoint.
Office mandir with a brass Ganesha idol under a backlit steel-wire halo on a floating oak cabinet, behind oak sliding doors
The mandir, common to both options: a wire halo, warm light and an ivory altar. Indicative viewpoint.

Standards referenced

  • NBC 2016, Part 4 — Fire and life safety — means of egress for business occupancy (Bureau of Indian Standards)

Frequently asked

Use what the company makes. In this design the decoration is steel-wire art: wave-form wire panels in the cabins and on the work floor, a wire halo in the mandir and wave-pattern privacy film on the glass. It tells a visitor what the business does without a logo on every wall, and the wall art is the easiest part of an office to change later.

This brief asks for 72 workpoints across two floors: 50 straight desks, 10 L-shaped cubicles, 7 L-shaped workstations, 3 cabin hosts, the MD and a receptionist, with 14 of those positions held for future hires. The reference plans shown seat 62 (36 and 26), and the full 72 needs a coordinated furniture layout. That gap between a brief and a drawing is normal, and it is exactly what a reference plan exists to expose.

A straight desk is the standard bench position, the most efficient in floor area. An L-shaped workstation adds a return surface for drawings or a second screen. An L-shaped cubicle adds higher fabric screens on two sides, for people who take calls or handle confidential work. Mixing the three lets a floor match the job each person does, rather than giving everyone the same desk.

It depends on acoustics, cleaning and use. Option 01 uses a terrazzo-look floor: hard-wearing, easy to clean and bright, but it reflects sound. Option 02 uses woven carpet: quieter and warmer, but it needs more upkeep in heavy-traffic routes. Here the plan and furniture stay the same in both, so the floor is a genuine choice rather than a redesign.

Give it its own small room with sliding doors, near the entrance rather than inside the work floor, with warm indirect light and a floating cabinet so the floor can be cleaned underneath. In this design the mandir sits off the reception floor, so visitors and staff can use it without crossing the desks. Its position is one of the things the Vastu review settles before construction drawings.

Yes. We work across Delhi NCR as a design and build contractor. Send the floor plans, the headcount by role and any Vastu requirements, and we will prepare concept options like these, with plans, material boards and 3D views, before anything is drawn for construction.

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