MERAKI- NEW OFFICE

Head architect- Ar. Priyank Shah, Ar. Pavna Shah

Site architect- Roshni Shah

Fabrication team- Raadhe fabricators

Carpentry team- Mr. Mahendra Bharti

Civil team- Mr. Rakesh

Electircal team- Mr. Samir Sheikh

Glass works- Mr. Rakesh parikh, Mr. Anuj

Drafting team- Mr. Gopi, Sunidhi, Priyanshi

Individual role:

Material calculations and sourcing

3D renders and drawings

Model making head

Agency co-ordination and supervision

On-site detailing

ARCLANE furniture design company

ARTA BROCH ceramics company

MIYAWAKI

FOREST by meraki

BANANA

Meraki Design studio is a multi-disciplinary, collaborative architecture firm with focus on the ideas of ‘up-cycling’ as a step towards achieving a sustainable built environment. It’s core beliefs are inclusive of various art forms including paintings, sculpture, cinematography and so on. The new office building for meraki studio has been imagined to become a felxible space capable of expanding its functionaity to provide for the various interests of the firm and to be a part of the process of innovations that the firm aims at bringing. The office responds well to the site that is set in an industrial estate. The challenge of the site was the refurbishment of an existing warehouse build in pure masonary with a plaintif metal roof, hardly providing for climate control.

Satyanaran Industrial Estate

Light-weight metal construction was chosen for for the intervention. The space is divided into two parts attending to two branches that the office funtions in- Meraki studio is an architecture and interior design office situated in the right wing and the left wing is for a scrapbased furniture design venture called ‘Fenka’.

Fenka is a hands-on collaborative venture, The ground floor is dedicated to providing wide open space for experiments and can also be transformed into a displlay gallery space as required. provisions for tools and machines is done behind the flush cement-sheet finished walls that can be used for artistic display.

One enters into Meraki office through a welllike double height foyer space that connects to the main office on the right and workspaces on the left. A wood+metal staircase adroens the empty wall on the left eccentuating the contrasts in three basic materials used through out the design.

A wooden stairce sourced from a dismanteled haveli leads to the ‘L’ shaped mezzanine above the gallery space, crating interesting play in volume and generating a balcony-view for the gallery. This also connects to meraki office mezzanine through an unsualy intricate gateway in the center wall.

The staircase on meraki wing takes one atop a bridge entering an extremely flexible space barely divided by foldable glass partitions to maximise sunlight and outside connect. Meraki lounge provides access to a quaint balcony intuded by a bamboo thicket.