Project Description

Astral is a fast growing plastic pipe manufacturing company that needed a new corporate headquarters to accommodate increasing manpower and business operations. The brief given to us was to plan out the space allocation without compromising on HCPID’s core strength of designing interiors that take full account of the architectural spaces, structure and enhancing their innate qualities.

Our basic idea was inspired by the concept of flow and fluidity combined with linearity and continuity, which in many ways reflect the look and feel as well as the function of pipes, the client’s core product. Much of the concept was reflected in the design and deployment of lighting elements: for instance the reception area is lit with a grid of tube lights suspended in the double height space. In an otherwise pretty standard rectangular space our design focused on playing with proportions, directions and placement of lights not only to express mystery and ambiguity but also to delineate individual spaces. The overall impact is an office environment that is not monotonous or boring and instead includes a number of interesting spaces. All of which were created without compromising on the use of space required for all key business operations.