This 1,570 sft commercial office interior at BDBL Tower, Karwan Bazar, was planned to work hard in a small footprint. Studio Archifiction delivered design consultancy, site supervision and custom furniture for the fit-out.
What a Karwan Bazar floor demands
Karwan Bazar offices come with their own rules. These are commercial towers with steady visitor traffic, fixed service cores and floor plates you cannot alter. The office has to look credible to clients who walk in, and it still has to be practical for the people working there eight hours a day.
At 1,570 sft there is no room for a wasted corner. Reception, workstations and meeting space had to sit in one continuous flow, with circulation that does not send visitors through the working area.
How we planned it
The layout came before the finishes. We set the circulation route first, then placed reception where it controls the entry without eating usable area, then arranged workstations by how the team actually works rather than in rows for the sake of symmetry.
Storage was built into the plan instead of added afterwards, which is the single most common reason a small office feels cluttered within a year. Lighting was layered so the workstations, the reception and the meeting area each get what they need.
Bright natural light was the floor’s main asset, so nothing was allowed to block it. Partition heights and glazing were chosen to let daylight travel across the plate rather than trapping it at the window line.
Small floor, same discipline
A 1,570 sft office gets the same process as a 10,000 sft one: test fit first, then working drawings, then a BOQ you can actually price, then supervision on site. Skipping steps is what makes small offices go over budget, not the size.
We took a similar compact-office approach at the Winner Steel office in Nawabpur, and both projects follow the process described on our office interior design in Dhaka service page. If your floor includes a director’s or MD’s room, the sizing and privacy decisions are set out in our CEO and MD office planning guide.
Planning a commercial office fit-out in Karwan Bazar or Motijheel? Send your floor plan, team size and required rooms through our contact page, or message us on WhatsApp at +880 1716-501213. We will review the plate and tell you what it can realistically hold.
