Akros Mimarlık
Commercial spaces
Office reception, meeting floors and visitor flow. Whether a corporate identity survives the move into space shows in the first thirty seconds past the door.
In a commercial space the first impression is made at reception. A visitor comes through the door, looks for somewhere to look, and decides whether they need to ask someone. Reception is designed to remove that short hesitation.
After that it is flow: how far the visitor goes, where the staff area starts, what they pass on the way to the meeting room. The plan solves that division, not the signage.
The images on this page come from our fair work. Photographs of commercial interiors are published with the occupier’s permission and will go up when they are cleared. Our other fields are on the architecture page.
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Reception and the meeting floor
Reception solves three things at once: waiting, wayfinding and access control. Where a waiting visitor sits, whether the desk can see the door, whether the turnstile or card reader breaks the flow. All three affect each other, and adding one later breaks the other two.
A meeting floor follows a different logic. Acoustic separation, how transparent the glazed partition should be, where the screen hangs and where the cable comes from. The most common mistake is placing the table first and then looking for somewhere to put the screen.
For fire, escape routes and accessibility we follow the publications of the Chamber of Architects of Turkey.
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Identity moving into space
A brand guide is two-dimensional: colour codes, typography, logo use. A space is three-dimensional and asks what the guide does not answer — which timber, which texture, which colour temperature of light. These decisions follow from the guide without being written in it.
An exhibition stand is a brand at its most concentrated; everything that has to be said in a few days is there. Carrying the same decisions into a permanent space means calming them down. In an office the tone drops, the materials get tougher and the light softens.
Reception desks, meeting tables and bespoke joinery are made in the workshop. Manufactured goods are supplied and brought together in a single schedule.
| Area | Settled in design | Common mistake |
|---|---|---|
| Reception | Waiting, wayfinding and access control | The desk cannot see the door |
| Open plan | Density, acoustics and daylight distribution | Desk count fixed before the plan |
| Meeting room | Acoustics, screen position and cable route | Looking for the screen wall after the table |
| Visitor route | Separating what is seen from what is not | Routing visitors through the staff area |
| Break area | Ventilation, noise and seating | Placing it against the open plan |
| Store and archive | Frequency of access and carrying route | Left to last, then taken out of desk space |
| Lighting | Separating general, task and accent light | One fitting type for the whole floor |
- Can the work be done while the office is in use?
It can, in phases. Work moves floor by floor or zone by zone and noisy trades run outside office hours. Phasing lengthens the programme, and that should be said at the start.
- Do you make the furniture?
Reception desks, meeting tables and bespoke joinery are made in the workshop. Chairs, desks and light fittings are supplied, and both sides come together in one schedule.
- Do you have photographs of commercial projects?
Not yet cleared for publication. Completed work is photographed with the occupier’s permission and nothing goes up before that. The images on this page come from our fair work.
Let us talk about your project
The location, the floor area and the date the space has to be in use are enough. We come back within two working days with a process and a schedule.