Office Reception & Workplace
Faisal Al Alawi Company Office
Before and after
The Transformation
Both frames look along the same glazed wall. The first is a photograph taken during fit-out; the second is a design visualisation, not a photograph of completed work.
Key Facts
- Key Facilities
- Reception desk and waiting group, Glazed cellular offices, Marble circulation spine, Slatted feature wall with company mark, Planted slatted ceiling raft, Recessed linear lighting
About the Project
Faisal Al Alawi Company Office is a reception and office floor organised along a single circulation spine. The offices along it are fronted in glass rather than solid partitions, so the daylight arriving through the window wall carries through them instead of stopping at the first door. The spine is finished in pale marble and lit by a continuous recessed line; at its end the ground turns dark, and a slatted wall carrying the company mark closes the view. Reception, a lit chevron backdrop and a small waiting group sit on that darker ground, so arrival is marked by a change of material rather than by a sign.
The Challenge
The floor was handed over mid-fit-out: full-height glazing already installed in dark frames along one side, drywall taped and jointed but unpainted on every face, a ceiling raft newly boarded over one room while the soffit and its services stayed open down the middle, coiled cable drops waiting for fittings, and protective paper across the slab.
Our Approach
The design keeps the window wall as the source of light for the whole floor and refuses to build across it. Offices are glazed to the spine so the daylight passes through; the corridor itself is kept clear, lit by a single recessed line, and finished in pale marble. Arrival is handled by contrast rather than signage — the floor darkens, the ceiling drops into a slatted raft with planting above it, and the company mark sits on the one wall the corridor points at.
