Architect：Architecture Discipline

Location：Gurgaon, Haryana, India; | ;

Project Year：2018

Category：Offices

The Oberoi Group of Hotels is India’s best hospitality brand and a leading one, globally. The Oberoi Office Tower is situated in the heart of the urban fabric of Gurgaon in Cyber City, which is the hub of commercial workspaces. Spread over 7 floors in the new tower, the Corporate Headquarters has been developed as a completely connected, corporate workplace. 

Architecture Discipline was commissioned to create the 10,000 sq. ft. space for Arjun Oberoi, Managing Director and his Projects Development Team. The program also required an office for the Executive Chairman Prithvi Raj Singh ‘Biki’ Oberoi – a man hailed as one of India’s greatest hoteliers and the force behind the brand and the business. 

The resultant design crafts space for two equally charismatic, but completely different individuals with diverse opinion, belonging to the same lineage, separated by almost forty years. The dynamic, avant-garde approach to the modern office, therefore respects the pedigree of the system, while pushing the work culture into a new age with a newfound expression.

The office intends to define the progressive attitude of the organization in order to nurture a healthy workspace community that provides possibilities for the brand vision to evolve over time. Gratifying the understated, yet exceedingly refined requirements of the brand that spearheads luxury hospitality in India, the office space befits the spirit of architecture and design standards in luxury hospitality. The key features include:

The office has an external glass facade that allows a three-sixty-degree view of the charged urban context, while an internal glass courtyard provides relief and facilitates transparency across the floor plate. All good architecture is a quest for light and space. This project has been conceptualized as an oasis of nature that is calm and relaxing in juxtaposition to its immediate context by creating central glass courtyards that feeds the interiors with natural light.

The workspace has a 16-foot-high ceiling, which informs the scale of the space and makes one feel energetic and positive. To enhance the transparency within the interior, low-reflective glass has been used to create layers. The result is a play with light and reflections that animate the space. The electronically operable blinds control daylight ingress and heat gain.