Professional Services · Bengaluru
07Corporate · Hyderabad · 2024
Emprada
The lobby doubles as a town square.
Year
2024
Area
19,850 sq ft
Duration
12 weeks
Sector
Corporate
The brief
Emprada wanted a corporate floor that operated like a town square — somewhere staff would naturally gather between meetings, not just on Fridays. We put the social core in the middle of the plate, not the corner.
The challenge
The lobby, café and informal seating share one volume, separated by a single moss wall doing two jobs at once: visual divider and passive acoustic baffle. Workspaces wrap the perimeter; the social core never feels distant from any desk.
At a glance
Emprada specifications
- Workstations
- 180
- Cabins
- 12
- Meeting rooms
- 8
- Social core capacity
- 80 (all-hands), 12 (Tuesday)
- Moss wall area
- 24 sq m
Outcomes
Outcomes — Emprada
- 01Social core sized for 80 people on the all-hands day, 12 on a Tuesday
- 02Moss wall as a passive acoustic and visual divider — no doors
- 03Stone, timber and acoustic fabric specified together, not stacked
The build
Emprada gallery
Materials & specification
Emprada — materials and specification
- ·Living moss wall (no irrigation, no maintenance contract)
- ·Indian quarry stone at the lobby threshold
- ·Burnt-finish timber screens
- ·Acoustic fabric panels in custom navy and rust
- ·Brass-edge reception detail
Team & credits
Emprada team and credits
- Design lead
- ARCSPACEX (Arun)
- Project lead
- ARCSPACEX (Abhijith)
- Furniture
- Bespoke + procurement
- Biophilic supply
- In-house · ARCSPACEX
Frequently asked
FAQ — Emprada
How does the social core work on a slow Tuesday vs an all-hands day?+
Modular furniture and a generous core footprint. Twelve people make it feel intimate; eighty people fit without rearranging the room.
Why a moss wall instead of a planted wall?+
Moss needs no irrigation, no replanting, no maintenance contract. The acoustic absorption is comparable. The look reads as "designed", not "installed".
Related projects
