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A 470 m² pharmaceutical head office in Carnaxide

699.Carnaxide Offices · Office fit-out · Carnaxide, Lisbon · 2024-12

The project

The Portuguese head office of a pharmaceutical company, published without its name: twenty spaces on one floor, with the architecture, the engineering and the construction drawn and built by the same team. First site visit August 2023; the finished work was photographed in December 2024.

What we were responsible for

One floor, twenty scheduled spaces, 470 m²: a 158 m² open workspace laid out for thirty-eight desks, seven meeting rooms, a reception, an eating room, an IT room and the sanitary cores. Architecture, electrical design, fire safety, HVAC, water and drainage and the signage were all drawn in house and coordinated against one another before site started; the electrical as-built drawings were issued in August 2024.

What this does not include

The building is not ours. Its shell, structure, core and central plant were outside this contract. Two pieces were drawn by outside specialists working to our set and coordinated by us: the lighting calculation and the control wiring for the building-management system. The area given is the sum of the twenty spaces listed in the fire-safety schedule, cross-read against the architectural plan; it is the area those documents record, not a survey of the finished work. Three labels that appear on the plan — the meeting booths, the print area and the fire reel — carry no area of their own in any document; they may well sit inside one of the twenty, so they are not additional surface. No cost, price or programme figure is published here.

Verified facts

  • Area listed in the fire-safety schedule
    470 m²
  • Open workspace, thirty-eight desks
    158 m²
  • Circulation
    82 m²
  • Reception
    52 m²
  • Eating room
    42 m²
  • Largest meeting room
    26 m²
  • First site visit to the finished-work photography
    2023-08 → 2024-12

Images

A corridor between a curved glass meeting pod in oak framing and the open workspace, under a curved ceiling carrying two black ring pendants, with white cabinets topped by oak planters along the right-hand side.
The curve is the move that organises the plan: the meeting pod follows it, the ceiling above follows it, and the two rings sit inside it. That is why this reads as a room and not as the space left over between other rooms.
A corridor along a run of oak-framed glass rooms, closed on the right by a tall curved white wall with a continuous strip of light washing its base, over grey textured carpet.
The wall curves through its full height and the light at its foot follows the curve without a break. That is one setting-out, not a straight wall given a rounded end at the last minute.
Open workspace with white bench desks, black mesh task chairs and low white cabinets topped with light timber planters, against a two-sided glazed façade looking out to a wooded slope.
The 158 m² workspace, on the two glazed sides of the floor. The suspended linear fittings, the diffusers, the detectors and the speakers all sit above the desks, which is why the ceiling was coordinated as a single drawing before any of the four trades ordered material.
Corridor between two rows of meeting rooms in oak-framed clear glass, with a lit room-booking panel beside each door, grey textured carpet, and a dark glazed wall closing the view at the far end.
Seven meeting rooms open off this corridor. Keeping the partitions in clear glass from floor to head is what lets the daylight from the far end reach the middle of the plan, which has no façade of its own.
An eating room with round white tables and pale blue moulded chairs on grey tiled flooring, a white and dark blue kitchenette along the back wall, and a large black ring pendant overhead beside an exposed concrete column.
The 42 m² eating room. The concrete column was left exposed, setting-out marks and all, and the ring pendant passes beside it instead of going round it.
A glazed meeting room with light timber framing and one curved face, seen across the workspace over dense timber planters, with a lit room-booking panel beside the door and a ring of suspended linear lighting above.
Seven meeting rooms were built on this floor and each one carries the name of one of the company’s own products. The glass keeps the daylight crossing the plan; the planters do the separating that a solid wall would otherwise have done.
Waiting area with blue swivel armchairs and white poufs beside a white wall of square shelf boxes, some in light timber and some lacquered dark blue, under a ceiling that curves down to meet it.
The waiting area beside the reception. The shelf boxes are set out on a grid that alternates light timber and lacquered blue; the grid, the niche it sits in and the curve of the ceiling above were all drawn together, which is why the composition survives being seen from an angle.

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