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Renovation and design of Mc Donald Carter

Mc Donald Carter

One of the well-known auditory & Tax offices in Melaka, decided to expand an office, because their services and business reached to a higher level in the market. So I was assigned to look into the design and renovation of a two-storey office.

The problem:
• In addition to filing rooms which contained a lot of papers, employees produced a great load of papers daily.
• The two floors of the office were completely isolated but connected with a staircase.
• The longer side of the office was facing the west completely, and it could get very hot during the daytime.
The solutions
• Designing a large void to link the two floors to each other.
• The staircase was designed from the void area, connecting the two floors.
• At the staircase landing, I designed a pop up box, like a cantilever to be used as the meeting room, so users could look down to the void and the lobby area.
• All the storage and file archiving rooms relocated on the west side without any windows.
• Plenty of temporary-archiving shelves for each department as well as recycle and reuse were designed.
• Since there was a large office station department, I used a colored glass partition to make a semi wall. it would add slightly the feel of breaking the space length to smaller areas,adding more sense of warmth and intimacy.