Awfis, BKC, Mumbai

‘Awfis’ - an adaptive and space efficient design, envisaged as a co – working workspace to facilitate dialogue, interaction and collaboration amongst employees.

The AWFIS project is located in Bandra Kurla Complex, the commercial hub of Mumbai, India to establish a co-working open layout. With limited availability of lavish spaces and extreme hike in prices, AWFIS has been ideated to deliver spaces to budding organizations for fostering a greater socio-economic impact. It also provides them the necessary equipment and a network/web/community to grow and prosper. The prime design intent remains to be the optimum utilization of space available, thus reviving what is already present in/as a different form/identity. This allowed for experimentation with materials such as wood and metal that endow warmth and a rustic feel to the space. The project exhibits the INDUSTRIAL CHIC design vocabulary where clues have been taken from old factories and industrial spaces that have been converted to lofts and other living spaces.