This had to be the working space of a young software development firm, Indigo Consultants, so architects Quaid Doongerwala and Shilpa Ranade took full advantage of the need to build an office representative of unconventional ideas. Eclecticism was a given here from the word go and has been efficiently realised with the help of a fun mix of materials and an approach that the team has christened, ‘Patch-On’.
Randomness is established through exposed nuts and bolts, metal clips and screws, while the metal sheet divisions seem like a salute to the tin-shed abodes of scores of denizens in space-starved Mumbai. Multi-coloured transparent panels on doors and shelves add an element of pop-art to the scheme, while also fulfilling the need of a modern office with open interconnected spaces. The three-pronged design brief for the project was efficiency, flexibility and attitude – the DCOOP team has indeed delivered this in style.
