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The client; Messrs. Oando Plc engaged our professional services and provided us with a simple design brief: To provide them with a design for the relocation of their current head office and dependent support functions of all Oando Plc’s component businesses from the 7th – 10th Floors of the Zenon House on Ajose Adeogun Street to the 14th – 16th Floors of the Wings Towers on Ozumba Mbadiwe Avenue.

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Key components of the design brief are as follows:

• This office should be designed with all the standard requirements for a modern office as pertains to ease of access, ease of use, ample natural lighting, adequate workspace and circulation spaces, etc.
• Proposed office space to have a typical open-plan office layout with the exception of the meeting and conference rooms, as well as offices for Heads of Departments and executive officers.
• The proposed office floor design should accommodate the staff (the client is to provide us a schedule of the staff headcount to be designed for. They are also to confirm the various departments/units which have business dependencies, co-locations and Chinese wall policies).
• Provision of relevant infrastructure such as main reception, visitors’ waiting area, meeting rooms, I.T/server rooms, storage spaces, canteen, electrical room, CCTV/Security room, due consideration of disabled access etc.

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DESIGN PHILOSOPHY:

The philosophy we have adopted in proffering a design solution hinges on three key principles as follows: maximizing the significant panoramic views at such a height; provision of staff locker areas away from the desks/workstations and ease of general access across individual floors.

a: Significant Panoramic Views:

Based on the design concept of the building; with significant floor-to-ceiling glazing on the building façade; we proposed the floor layouts to ensure that most of the locked-up and open plan office spaces are in direct view of the building’s glass façade; facing onto both Ozumba Mbadiwe Avenue, as well as the Ikoyi Lagoon Waterfront (see blue arrows in picture 1 below).

Furthermore, we have oriented the desks as much as possible to ensure that the monitors are not in direct lines of sight of the glare from the sunlight. In addition, we have proposed that most of the glazing partitions run parallel to the perimeter glazing to allow the travel of natural lighting, whilst the solid partitions run perpendicular to the perimeter glazing (see placements of solid and glazed partitions in picture 2 below).

Finally, we adopted a zoning pattern whereby the back-of-house functions (such as IT and staff canteen) are located along the walled-up sides of the building façade; and as close to the service accesses as much as possible.

 

 

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b: Staff Locker Areas:

The design concept to have staff locker areas was adopted with a view to establishing cleaner desks for the staff. It will also aid the installation of smaller desks, thus increasing the possibility of the number of desks that can be accommodated within the floor.

 

c: Ease of General Access:

We adopted the use of a 1650mm wide thorough-fare corridor around the building core to facilitate easy access to the dependent office functions (see circulation around central core in picture 3 below). In addition; we adopted a modular design for individual desks which provides 2.00 sq.m. per staff within the various open-plan offices (see a modular arrangement of staff desks in picture 4 below). This ensures that back-to-back spaces between the rows of desks are greater than 600mm.

 

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