The Indus Entrepreneurs’ Office (TiE)

TiE fosters entrepreneurship globally through networking, education, mentoring, incubating, and funding. The brief of their Delhi branch was to communicate a global spirit of entrepreneurship. The design expressed this theory with Indian roots in an atypical plan layout and a definitive Indian identity through its materiality.

The compact space had high density functional requirements. Outreach activities such as training and internship programs are regularly conducted, thus requiring the work space to serve staff as well as visitors and members of the network that the organization facilitated.

The project was interesting and unique in the way that a woman was designing the work space, for a women-led organization. In spite of a dense office space, a recreational zone to serve as a space for children of the employees, was given priority by the client. This was created  simply by means of a circular fabric partition. The restricted budget compelled us to turn to affordable yet aesthetically impactful innovations, such as using  handloom sarees as fabric for pin up board surfaces, amongst others. Overall, the .