Techwave
72,000 sq. ft. · VSD Tech Park, Hyderabad · 2-floor campus
- Client
- Techwave
- Location
- Hyderabad
- Area
- 72,000 sq.ft
- Year
- 2024
When a fast-growing technology company outgrows its space, the instinct is to simply expand. Techwave asked a harder question: what should expansion actually feel like? At 72,000 sq. ft. across two floors, their new headquarters at VSD Tech Park needed to do more than house a headcount. It needed to carry a brand, enable a culture, and hold together under the pressure of a company moving fast.
Fluid in expression. Structured in planning. Built for growth.
The design begins with the logo — a wave. Not as a decoration applied to walls, but as a spatial principle. The wave becomes a guide for how spaces transition, how zones flow into each other, how the office moves you through it without signage.
The reception makes this explicit: a large-scale wavy backdrop sets the tone from the first moment. From there, the language becomes more subtle — present in the curve of a partition, the gradient of a ceiling zone, the way light shifts from one area to the next. A colour gradient derived from Techwave's brand palette flows across both floors, creating visual continuity in a space large enough to lose cohesion.
Two floors, one conversation. The central staircase doesn't just connect levels — it's designed as a social anchor, a place where informal exchanges happen and the company runs into itself.
Planning
Large floor plates are notoriously difficult to plan — they can feel like warehouses if the zoning isn't deliberate. The solution here is a grid-based modular cluster system for workstations, with collaboration and meeting zones placed as fixed anchors throughout. This gives the floor a rhythm — open, then enclosed, then open again — that makes navigation intuitive and the space feel purposeful at every point.
Design Language
Every system — flooring, ceiling, services, partitions — is integrated and aligned to the planning grid. This is design and engineering working together, not in sequence. The result is a space that looks considered from every angle because it was built that way.
Modular workstation systems mean the floor plan can be reconfigured as the company evolves. Glass with acoustic control maintains the open feel without sacrificing usability.
Execution
Raised flooring throughout allows power, data, and HVAC to be adapted without disruption. Phased construction kept existing operations running during build-out — a non-negotiable for a company that couldn't afford downtime. Standardised workstation modules mean future reconfigurations are a matter of reorganising furniture, not rebuilding partitions.
Hundreds of workstations across two floors. A 60-seat boardroom. Eight conference rooms. Three collaboration lounges. A cafeteria sized for the full daily population. And a central staircase that's become the social heart of the company. A headquarters that matches Techwave's ambition — scalable without feeling temporary, visually cohesive without being rigid. The modular workstation system has already been reconfigured multiple times as teams have grown and reorganised — exactly as designed.
Fluid in expression. Structured in planning. Built for growth.
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How is the programme for an engagement like Techwave set?
Programme is calibrated to the brief and to client-side decision cadence, then fixed as a commitment in the contract after design development. For an engagement of this scale and category, the exact window is shared in the proposal once the brief is documented — not against a public benchmark.
What did Pencil Sketch deliver for Techwave?
Single-team integrated design + build under one fixed-price contract: workplace strategy, space planning, interior design and 3D visualisation, MEP coordination, BOQ, permits and approvals, construction, furniture procurement, fit-out, and post-occupancy support. Seventy-two thousand square feet. Two floors. One seamless identity. Techwave's headquarters built for the company it's becoming.
Can we visit the Techwave office before engaging Pencil Sketch?
Yes — for serious enquiries we coordinate completed-project visits with the relevant client subject to their approval and operational schedule. Get in touch via the contact form with your project brief, scale and city, and we'll line up the most relevant references for your engagement.
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