Client Brief and Expectations: Design a World Class facility for a Broad Casting and Networking Space. This facility will store the data, and broadcast, for various channels of the company across the globe. Redundancies on the technical requirements have to be N + N for each and every technical service.

Challenges: The entire premise was to be designed on a 3 feet raised flooring with services from below floor and above ceiling and yet, all the spaces were to have an overall experience of an architecturally well designed, technically well laid and acoustically best performing space.

Concept and Design Approach:
A balanced approach on functionality with aesthetics, ensuring that the space is both technically advanced and visually appealing.

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• Client : Sony BONE (Broadcast Operations and Network Engineering)

• Size : 35,000 sq.ft

• Year : 2024

• Location : Mumbai, India

• Industry : Entertainment/Broadcasting and Networking Technical Data Centre

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• Client : Mahindra Lifespace

• Size : 10,000 sq.ft

• Year : 2023

• Location : Pune, India

Client Brief and Expectations:
The YVPHFM (Yoga Vidya Pranic Healing Foundation of Maharashtra)is a healing center where Pranic Healing workshops, training sessions and services are provided. Pranic Healing is an energy healing system based on the fundamental principle that the body has the innate ability to heal itself. The Client was keen to have their newly acquired space transform into a nurturing, welcoming environment exuberating calmness.

Challenges:
To create a zen like space that spacewise transforms easily.

Concept and Design Approach :
The interiors of this office/ meditation space was carefully thought of and planned in a way that the client could open up their meditation hall to accommodate larger numbers of people as and when required. Soft diffused lighting throughout the space in the form of cove lights and fabric ceiling helped contribute to a zen like environment. It was crucial throughout the design phase that the ceiling to floor glass windows were unobstructed to maximize the natural light filtering in. Live plants were also introduced to contribute to the holistic healing factor of the space.

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• Client: Yoga Vidya Pranic Healing Foundation of Maharashtra

• Size: 1,700 sq.ft

• Year: 2022

• Location : Mumbai, India

• Industry: Wellness

All companies aspire towards creating an impactful space where one can host their client’s or anyone who visits the company but has no reason to be on the work floor, and in the process experiences the ethos of the company with an impact that has extreme recall value. IIFL having their own building in the most sort after localities in the city of Mumbai had the privilege of seeking this opportunity while renovating their premise. IIFL Business centre is a result of that thought process.

Entire space got designed as an elite art gallery, wherein wide corridors and quiet waiting lounges with many enclosed rooms formed the structure of the floor. As soon as one got out of the elevator, they would be greeted with a meet-and-greet desk and a large open lounge where the visitor could be hosted for a casual discussion and hosted with beverages.

There are few such niche areas created which not only become waiting areas, but they double up to convey the milestones that the company has already achieved through various achievements and awards. Multiple rooms of various sizes from 6 seaters to up to a large 25 seater provides various scale and sizes of meetings to be conducted. And for ease of operation all rooms can be booked through an intelligent digital system that is directly connected with the end users phone.

Considering that meetings with longer duration would break open into lunches, dinners and/or coffee breaks, there was a community dining designed to allow for such interaction to take place. An interesting openable wooden screen was designed to take care of larger or private gatherings as per the scale or requirement at that time.

All meeting room interiors were created using softer, sound absorbing materials which would provide the desired acoustic levels within the room and enhance the overall performance and requirement of these meeting spaces.

IIFL Business centre is a classic example of a mixture of art gallery into modern office space environment, thus optimizing the space and creating the right impact which has an excellent recall value for the visitors.

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• Category : Corporate

• Size : 10,000 sft

• In Association : OPOLIS

• Location : Mumbai, India

Client Brief and Expectations: Design a world class facility of a Broad Casting Sports Studio

Challenges: Managing accurate sound and acoustic levels. Accuracy of lighting within the studio. Appropriate circulation plan to ensure visitor movement and employee movement is perfectly planned.

Concept and Design Approach:
Broadcasting Studios come with their own set of challenges. And this one being a Sports studio came with its own peculiar problems to add to the matrix of issues to be addressed within the design of the space.

Planning of the interior required exact dimensions of the studios to be planned, sound and visual editing rooms had to be of an accurate size to meet with its technical requirements, accurate acoustics had to be maintained, people and material required segregation and the corridors from where they moved required exact dimensions. With all of these challenges there was a need to plan an open office concept for the employee work area as well.

Basically, edit suits planned in the middle of the office created a smart segregation of employee area and technical rooms. Corridors were kept wide enough for ease of material and people movement. Natural light was provided to the employees and technical rooms were kept away from natural light to ensure proper control of lighting inside those rooms. Employee/Staff movement was swiftly planned and visitor movement towards their lounge or make up room areas was well separated.

Entire office got designed on a raised flooring which ensured that the sound transfer between the floors is controlled and demand for constant changes of electrical requirements within the technical rooms is addressed without any disruption of the office.

Edit suits had an Imported product of highly technical glass enclosure towards the corridor with pocket doors installed. This provided complete transparency of the room and yet the aesthetics were well maintained.

Aesthetically an interesting carpet pattern of an outdoor green racing track was laid on the floor. Even the edit suits numbering was given on the carpet, which met with the aesthetically concept of the space. Vertical surfaces of white canvas and walls were splashed with three-dimensional graphics merging with two-dimensional vinyl graphic on the wall. This approach completed the overall experience of the space and made such a highly technical space come alive as a sports studio.

Thus, by using intelligent planning methods and specifying technically accurate materials, Alcove and a team of consultants resolved it brilliantly and created the most appreciated vibes for a Sports Studio.

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• Client : SONY / IMG Studio

• Size : 18,500 sq. ft.

• Year : 2019

• Location : Mumbai, India

• Industry : Broadcasting Sports Studio

• Category : Corporate

Millennials today are extremely particular about their health and wellbeing. Providing a work-life balance is key to retaining these talents, and that is how the management team at IIFL along with Alcove focused on providing a space that communicates the company’s focus on the wellbeing of their employees. A Health Café and Gym on the same floor were born out of this ideology.

A full-fledged gym with modern equipment’s, well designed changing and shower area including a personal trainer, ensures that taking care of individual’s health while working at the organization and reaching at work or leaving from work at any hour is no more of a concern for the end users anymore. Such approach breaks the boundaries or stereotypes of how an office gets used and engages the end users of the office with the premise in a way that they start correlating to it beyond a single purpose of using it only to sit on a workstation and deliver. It is ‘AN OFFICE NO MORE’ Similarly, the main concept for the café is to design a kitchen-living space as a kind of special ‘third place’ between public and intimate, where everyone is welcome. And a designated gym on the same floor further emphasized on the idea of the company’s concern on providing a healthy work-life balance for their staff.

While designing a public and yet an intimate space, it was important that the design took care of circulation such that people and material movement have less or no interaction as far as possible. Emphasis was given on the corridor widths and overall planning. Apart from that, it was important to understand the culture of people while using the premise. Indians by nature use this space to break open into loud laughs and casual conversations which are not meant for the work floor. In such a scenario acoustical treatments were of utmost importance. Hence, an anutone board and acoustically treated ceiling along with baffles which would absorb sound worked as a great solution. Variety of seating arrangements from a coffee table lounge seating, to bar stool style seating and dining table or bench style seating takes care of ergonomic requirements, allows various scale and nature of gatherings to occur within the space. Confectionary counters, buffet’s and health corner’s provide variety of options of food choices for the end users.

Thus the cafe as a whole performs as this dynamic space that connects people with colleagues, their work, and their organization. It transforms traditional corporate cafeteria real estate into destinations for connection, collaboration, focus and innovation.

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• Category : Corporate

• Size : 10,000 sft

• In Association : OPOLIS

• Location : Mumbai, India

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• Client : Regus Business Centres

• Size : Multiple sq.ft

• Location : Mumbai, Delhi, Noida

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• Client : Builder show flat

• Size : 3,000 sq.ft

• Year : 2010

• Location : Mumbai, India

• Client : Private Lobby

• Size : 15,000 sq.ft

• Year : 2010

• Location : Mumbai, India

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• Client : BMW

• Size : 40,000 sq.ft

• Year : 2010

• Location : Mumbai, India