Main entrance to reception.
Waiting area and entrance to director's office.
Large and small meeting areas.
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Office DesignThe company ‘Associated Magazines’ produces magazines for the female market. It caters for women of different ages, at different stages in their lives. There are articles that address fashion issues, identifying trends and giving beauty tips. The ‘House and Leisure’ publication covers all that women need to know about decorating their home, current trends and looks that are popular. It gives ideas based on what other people have done that has been successful. Other aspects to the magazines address the feelings and emotions that women have. Questions they may not admit to out loud. Issues concerning health, lifestyle choices, understanding emotions, family and relationship advice, as well as advice on dealing with changes, the more private side to their lives.
This interior will therefore address these different layers of who women are, looking at outward appearances that they put on, the side that they share with the world. The layout will ‘peel’ back the layers in order to discover the honest or ‘real’ person beneath that. This will be done through materials that change from high quality, costly finishes in the front area, to more basic and less glamorous at the back. Divisions between spaces will become more transparent and also lower towards an open plan office set up at the back indicting the disintegration of layers as they are pulled away to identify the person beneath. Project brief:
Design the office space to accommodate your client's provincial head office within the given space in the Mandela Rhodes building in the City Bowl. A space originally intended for retail or restaurant tennancies, leading to there being many sprinklers, floor level changes and bulky columns. The space needs to accommodate:
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