Funktion Design Studio, Building an office and studio for one’s own architecture practice is a challenging and an exciting prospect at the same time. When Funktion Design set out to build their own studio, they wanted to bring to the fore, a strong conceptual ideation and structural exploration that they have hallmarked in all their projects to date. The layout accommodating Funktion Design is a South facing site, 40 feet x 40 feet in dimension and located in a bustling residential area of Sanjaynagar, Bangalore characterized by dense low rise housing with very little distance between adjoining buildings.
Photography: Adarsha R
The site is skirted by two voluminous Gulmohar trees along the road canopying at around 9-10m from the ground and offering their woody charm to an otherwise concrete neighborhood. The best light and ventilation is available in the upper reaches of these high-density sites. The design strategy, therefore, evolved as a response to this site context as well as a reinterpretation of the program of an architecture office typology. The office spreads across the top two floors of the building. Photography: Adarsha R
The topmost floor comprises of meeting rooms, conference hall, and reception that essentially forms the public face of the studio; and the floor below embodies the studio workstations aligned fascinatingly in level with the Gulmohar canopy outside. These two floors are expressed as a large aluminum-clad box placed on a concrete portal at a...