AKTI Office

Commercial, Karachi, Pakistan

An office for Al Karam Towel Industries in Karachi, planned like woven cloth: timber, cane and planting stand in for partitions.

Location: Karachi, Pakistan
Status: In progress
Typology: Workplace interior
Client: Al Karam Towel Industries

How the floor is woven

The office is planned like cloth, with routes and rooms crossing like warp and weft. Three places show how that reads in the plan and in the room.

The weave

On the layout, work bays, the boardroom, offices and the cafe interlock around a planted spine. In the room, planters and arched screens do the dividing that walls would have.

Furniture layout plan of the AKTI Office floor

Render of the open work bays with timber planters and arched screens

A boardroom in view

The boardroom is glazed on the side facing the floor, so a meeting stays part of the office instead of disappearing behind a door.

Plan drawing of the AKTI Office conference room

Render of the glazed boardroom with a long timber table

The executive office

The plan gives the office a desk, a lounge corner and a full shelving wall. Timber joinery and a hammered-metal ceiling carry the materials of the main floor into a private room.

Plan drawing of the AKTI executive office

Render of the executive office with shelving wall and lounge seating

Walkthrough film

AKTI Walk-Through

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About the project

Brief

Give a textile company an office that carries its craft without factory imagery: open work bays, a boardroom, executive offices and a breakout cafe on one connected floor.

The idea

AKTI Office is a workplace interior in Karachi for Al Karam Towel Industries. ZADS planned it on the logic of weaving: circulation, desks, meeting rooms and private offices interlock like warp and weft, so the floor reads as one workplace and not a row of separate rooms. The textile reference stays abstract. There is no factory imagery.

Arrival

Visitors arrive at a timber counter topped with planters, beside a glazed boardroom. Cane-webbing panels, textured walls and spotlights set the tone, with the company's circular logo at the desk.

The work floor

Open bays of modular desks with acoustic screens sit along a planted spine with breakout seating. Glass partitions and sliding doors keep the meeting rooms and private offices in view of the floor. Arched screens and planting divide the zones where solid walls would have.

Material

Slatted timber ceilings, dark recessed planes and linear lights run from the corridors to the executive offices. Cane, rattan and timber joinery recall the texture of woven cloth, while concrete-look walls, patterned carpet and blue acoustic panels keep it a working office.