Office design in Batumi for your team and its growth

Office design starts with how people work

We start office design in Batumi with questions about how the working day goes. Who comes in every day and who comes once a week. Who spends half the day on the phone, who needs quiet, whether clients visit and where you talk to them. A sales team and the accounts department in one room disturb each other more than the plan suggests.

The answers decide the format. An open-plan space is cheaper to renovate and more flexible, while private offices are quieter but eat up floor area with walls and corridors. When half the team works from home on a rota, assigned desks can give way to shared ones, and the freed-up metres can go to meeting rooms and places for calls. The general procedure for working with the landlord and the timelines for any premises are described on the page about commercial interior design.

Zoning: clients, noisy and quiet areas

A client shouldn't have to walk to the meeting room through the workspace, past other people's screens. We put reception and the client meeting room near the entrance and the workstations further in. The kitchen and the printer go away from those who need quiet: people always chat at the coffee machine.

We divide the open-plan space by noise level. Those who talk and move around a lot sit closer to the entrance and the kitchen, and those who work with documents at the far end. Between the zones we put cupboards, shelving or a row of phone booths: they divide the space without solid walls and don't block the daylight.

Phone booths and meeting rooms for two or three people are needed in almost any office with a lot of calls. Without them people go out to the stairwell to talk, or two of them take over the large meeting room for an hour.

Acoustics on the drawing

A room with a concrete ceiling, glass partitions and tiles on the floor booms like an empty swimming pool. Sound is absorbed by porous surfaces: an acoustic suspended ceiling, wall panels, rugs in breakout areas, upholstered furniture. We plan their area and position in the design along with the finishes, because panels bought after the first complaint cost more and look like a patch.

We don't put a meeting room on the other side of a wall from the kitchen or the toilet. On the drawing we take the walls of private offices up to the slab and check that no air duct shared by two rooms runs over them: a conversation carries through it into the next room. How these partitions are built and how the doors are sealed is described on the page about office renovation.

Light and windows: screens, faces, sun

We set the rows of desks at right angles to the windows, so that daylight falls from the side and doesn't cause glare on monitors. General lighting is diffused, and in the meeting room we add fittings that light faces from the front: under a single overhead light a person on a video call looks tired.

If private offices line the windows, the open-plan space behind them is left without daylight. So we try to keep open workstations by the windows and group private offices and meeting rooms deeper in, along the wall without windows. An office that does end up by a window gets a glass partition in an aluminium frame on the side facing the open-plan space, so that the light carries further. Illuminance calculations by zone and switching scenes are part of lighting design, which can be added to the project.

Brand identity and reception

We concentrate the brand colours and materials at the entrance and in the client area: the wall behind the desk, the desk itself, the light above it. In the workspace the brand colour stays an accent on a few surfaces. Eight hours a day among bright orange walls is tiring, and staff notice it before clients do.

We draw the wall that appears in the frame of a video call from the meeting room separately: calm finishes, one brand element without a fine pattern, light without hot spots. For a company that talks to its clients by video, this wall works as a second reception.

Sockets, network points and the ceiling plan

We draw the sockets and network points after the furniture is placed, tying each outlet to a desk. For islands of desks in the middle of the room we provide floor boxes or a feed from above, and give the server cabinet a recess or a room with ventilation and its own circuit. We hand the plan to the electrician and your IT specialist as one sheet, so that both work from the same version.

On the ceiling plan we mark the light fittings, cassette air conditioning units, ventilation grilles, Wi-Fi access points and access hatches. A coordinated plan is needed so that a light fitting doesn't land where a grille should go, and so that the hatch and the air conditioning unit can be reached with a stepladder without moving any desks.

How much office design costs in Batumi

An office design project costs from 89 to 130 ₾ per m². The price covers the layout of workstations and meeting rooms, brand identity, lighting by zone, 3D and working drawings with a plan of sockets and network points. This is the designer's work; the office renovation is priced separately and costs from 660 ₾ per m² with materials.

For small offices there is a minimum project fee of 3,600 ₾. An extra 3D view costs from 210 ₾, lighting design with illuminance calculations and selection of light fittings from 20 ₾ per m², and designer supervision from 1,290 ₾ a month. Allow for glass partitions in the renovation budget: a framed partition with installation costs from 830 ₾ per m².

Private offices instead of an open-plan space, made-to-measure furniture and a business centre's requirements for the drawing package all push the project price up. We give a preliminary price from the floor plan, and the final cost is set after the measured survey, once the project scope is agreed.