Padiberas Nasional Berhad Corporate Office

To consolidate and streamline its operations, Bernas has relocated all its various offices, previously spread throughout Kuala Lumpur, to the city centre to occupy ten floors of Menara HLA at Jalan Kia Peng. Our proposal for the interior design of the new corporate headquarters had to accommodate very specific spatial requirements for each floor. These range from a children’s nursery, training rooms, business center, common & corporate offices, to suraus and a communal gymnasium at the topmost level.

Our approach was to design a clean contemporary, uncluttered working environment. Clear and easy access to all departments is via a common corridor encircling the services core of the building. Glass is used extensively, allowing maximum natural lighting into the interors, while its transparency creates lightness and layering of space. Curves were introduced to soften the usual rigidity of office spaces, leading to different nodes which create variety and help to distinguish and to orientate between the various deparments.

Modular sized panels were used to create rooms and partitions. This allows for ease of construction. The choice of materials range from gypsum board for common offices, to glass for meeting rooms, timber for corporate offices and signage walls. This design approach was thus repeated over all floors to create a consistency in floor planning, and more importantly, a corporate identity through all the floors of Bernas new corporate headquaters.

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