Corporate workplace · Design + build · Kokapet, Hyderabad

Dukes Deevyashakti Realty Corporate Office

A 9,000 sq ft shared corporate office for two developers, designed in two weeks and built in ten. Marble floors and vaulted ceilings establish a sense of permanence, while a custom partition system allows the workplace to be taken apart and reorganised.

Status: Completed
Year: 2026
Location: Kokapet, Hyderabad
Client: Dukes Deevyashakti Realty (the joint office of Dukes Realtors and Deevyashakti Realty)
Urban Arts role: Design + build
Scope: Interior architecture · Workplace design · Furniture · Lighting · Electrical and HVAC/services coordination · Ceilings and flooring · Demountable partition system · Turnkey implementation
Scale: 9,000 sq ft
Programme: 2 weeks design · 10 weeks build

Reception lounge and café bar at the Dukes Deevyashakti Realty corporate office

Project note

The workplace was conceived around a productive contradiction: it had to express the solidity expected of two real-estate developers while remaining capable of changing with their organisations.

Permanence as a brief

An office with the weight of a long-term address.

For real-estate developers, the office is also a statement of permanence. The interiors draw on materials and tones associated with durability and long-term value, rather than the lighter, more provisional language of many contemporary offices.

Marble floors give the principal spaces a deliberate weight. Solid steam-beechwood battens frame warm-toned laminate panels across walls and partitions, and the same tones continue overhead in the ceiling planes. A curving ceiling sweeps over reception and the café bar, while a barrel-vaulted corridor gives circulation an architectural scale. The result feels closer to hospitality than to a conventional commercial fit-out.

Reception desk framed by warm timber and a curved ceiling — Reception

Barrel-vaulted corridor with marble floor and timber-framed partitions — Barrel-vaulted corridor

Open workplace with glazed cabins and warm timber partitions — Open workplace

Meeting room with timber panelling and a marble-topped table — Meeting room

Built to be taken apart

Permanence in character, flexibility in construction.

Behind that appearance of permanence is a system designed for change. The timber-and-glass partitions were custom-designed to be fully demountable. Custom-designed brackets accommodate up to three inches of variation in floor-to-ceiling height, allowing a partition to be moved without being remade.

Cabins, meeting rooms and enclosed workspaces can therefore be reconfigured and reused as the two organisations change, without discarding the elements that give the office its identity.

Glazed demountable partitions enclosing offices beside the open workplace — Demountable workplace partitions

Quiet seating area along the barrel-vaulted corridor — Corridor seating

Principal cabin with layered timber wall panels — Principal cabin

Enclosed office formed with timber-and-glass partitions — Enclosed workspace

Meeting room enclosed by glazed demountable partitions — Meeting room

Two weeks to design, ten to build

Design, fabrication and site work moved together.

The office was delivered as a single design-and-build commission on a compressed programme: two weeks for design and ten for execution. Architecture, detailing and construction logic had to be developed together from the outset.

The demountable partitions served both ends. Designed for future change, they were fabricated in Urban Arts’ own factory while work proceeded on site, then installed quickly and precisely. The turnkey scope also included furniture, lighting, electrical work, HVAC and services coordination, ceilings and flooring.

This commission followed Urban Arts’ work on the Amara Model Homes for Deevyashakti Realty. It was followed in turn by the Janwada Farmhouse, commissioned by Dukes Realtors.