Fastening form and function

Communique’s office at Gurugram provides a workspace that augments the well-being of its users in addition to their professional productivity, by creating architecture that celebrates transparency, free thought, and collaboration

- Shristi Nangalia

The Communique Marketing Solutions office in Gurugram is a modern and egalitarian workspace that fosters creativity, collaboration and conversation. Its spatial planning emerges as a direct result of this intent: where an open-plan is chosen to be symbolic of transparency. Disregarding traditional notions of professional hierarchy, this configuration instead encourages democratic engagement within the workforce. As a result, the architectural design reflects the company’s guiding philosophy, which is predicated on establishing parity to enhance employee experience, productivity and wellbeing.

Designed as a three-storeyed building, the office has a distinctive identity. The architectural vocabulary is unmistakably brutalist: the facades are an expanse of exposed concrete punctuated by the measured use of Corten steel. Honesty — structural and material — and humanism are central to the idea of Brutalism; its choice, therefore, reflects DCA’s strong belief in the movement’s foundational principles.