There are a few checkpoints every interior designer has to keep in mind while designing a modern commercial space or a modern office space. To begin with let’s look at a few sub spaces an interior designer has to plan for while designing an office. Majority of the sub spaces are the reception area, main workspace, cabins, conference rooms, smaller meeting rooms, and service areas like electrical and UPS rooms, AHU room for water cooled HVAC systems, server rooms, washrooms, pantry, file storage or compactor areas, cafeteria or office canteen.
Here is an interior designers checklist of all the individual components one by one.
Reception area: Interior designers should plan for access control systems, data and voice systems in
the reception area. The reception area is also the best place to convey brand image and should have appropriate lighting.
The main points to check in the central work space are data points, voice circuits, HVAC systems, fire fighting and most importantly lighting. Lighting plays a very important part in productivity and mood and should never be neglected for the main work area.
The important things to look at when designing cabins are 1. To make them sound proof 2. To design a comfortable and spacious environment. Most interior designers will include a sofa set in cabins which can doubles up to take a nap.
Conference rooms should have adequate lighting, data and voice points built into the conference table in the form of pop up boxes. Automatic retractable remote controlled projector screens, projectors, remote controlled white out or black out blinds to cut out external light should be planned well in advance.
