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Shruti Gaonkar, Patch Design Studio, Mumbai, Maharashtra

Sarova experience center is a multi working space, for a real estate companies employees and a sales gallery for potential home buyers. The design brief asked for a hip- new co-working spacelike design and planning. This space exudes a laid back café vibe with a large open seating zones within the sales gallery, complete with a high bar counter type of seats next to low sofa seating clusters for informal discussions and working. _x000D__x000D_Formal meeting rooms are tucked in at the edges, in niches created by existing RC shear walls which were clad in Decowood Fossil Oak natural wood veneer to look like fins on the entire length of the open space. For the purpose of showcasing the audio-visual presentation to potential customers a stepped seating amphitheater type of space in warm Golden Teak wood natural decowood veneer flooring and wall cladding frames the large graphic art wall mural made in acoustic boards clad in colorful fabric. Attention to detail extend in the custom designed light fixtures for the cutomer areas and made to order furniture pieces, like the long built in bench with high back seat of the cozy meeting room. The large central space with interlocking nooks created by low height glass partition and exposed concrete finished low walls have custom designed furniture finished in Fossil Oak and Red oak veneer finish. Kids play area set within two flanking RC walls clad in Oak veneer has playful built in niche set in the back storage wall finished in Fossil Oak veneer with smaller niches creates as seating and book shelf in Red Oak. The blue colored floor visually creates lively setting for the play area._x000D__x000D_Clean contemporary design with some key custom designed fixtures make the experience of the space, warm, informal and lively. This connects with the client's design brief for this project, which intended to create spaces with youthful appeal.