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Commercial Spaces
Offices, shops, restaurants and cafés designed around how the business actually runs.
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Commercial interiors have to perform. A café has to serve quickly at peak hours, a shop has to guide visitors through its products, and an office has to support both focus and collaboration.
We begin with operations: staff movement, customer flow, storage and services. The atmosphere of the space is then built on top of a plan that works.
Where Philippine law requires plans or documents to be signed and sealed, that work is carried out by, or in coordination with, duly registered and licensed professionals.
What is included
The scope of work.
- Office and workplace design
- Retail interior and display design
- Restaurant, café and hospitality interiors
- Space planning and capacity studies
- Brand-aligned material and lighting design
- Fit-out coordination with contractors and landlords
Typical deliverables
- Operational space plans
- 3D views
- Fit-out drawings
- Lighting and finish schedules
- Fixture and furniture schedules
Suited to
- Restaurant and café owners
- Retail businesses
- Office and workspace owners
- Developers and entrepreneurs
Process
How a project moves forward.
- 01
Discovery & Consultation
We listen first: how you live or operate, what the space must do, your budget and your timeline.
- 02
Concept & Planning
Layouts, spatial ideas and an overall design direction, explored in sketches, plans and early 3D studies.
- 03
Design Development
The approved concept is refined into a complete design, with materials, lighting and joinery resolved.
- 04
Documentation & Coordination
Drawings and schedules precise enough to price and build from, coordinated with engineers and specialists.
- 05
Execution & Delivery
Construction is coordinated and reviewed on site until the space is complete and handed over.
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