Hong Leong Office Space Planning & Workstation Design in Singapore
Office space planning turns a floor plate into a working layout. For Hong Leong Building Materials in Singapore, Offix planned and designed a 2,500 sq ft office and supplied the workstation system that fits it — one open floor divided into team zones by panels rather than partition walls.
What did the floor plate have to solve?
Hong Leong Building Materials needed a layout that matched how the company actually works. That meant enough workstation capacity for the team, clear separation between departments doing different kinds of work, and circulation that does not cut through people trying to concentrate.
The floor plate was open and largely undivided. That is efficient on paper and difficult in practice — an open plan with no structure gives every desk the same noise and the same interruptions, whatever the person at that desk is doing. Sales conversations land on top of quiet work, and the route to the pantry runs behind someone on a call.
So the planning question was how to add privacy and order without building walls. Walls would have consumed floor area, blocked daylight across the plate, and fixed the layout in place for the length of the lease. Adding partitions would also have turned a planning exercise into construction work, closer to an office fit-out than a layout change.
How office space planning divides a floor without walls
The layout was set out around a panel-based workstation system rather than fixed partitions. Panels do the work walls would otherwise do: they screen sightlines at seated height, take some of the noise between desks, and mark where one team’s area ends and the next begins — while leaving the ceiling line open so daylight carries across the whole floor.
Desks were grouped into clusters by team, with circulation routes running between the clusters rather than through them. That one decision removes most of the interruption in an open plan, because people walking to a meeting no longer pass behind someone’s screen.
Panel heights were varied by position — taller where a desk needed shielding from a walkway or a shared area, lower where a cluster works better across the group. Storage and furniture were coordinated against the same plan, so the pieces reinforce the zones rather than sitting on top of them.
The same plan governed where storage sits: cabinets and pedestals close the ends of clusters, so each team area has a physical edge and the shared routes stay clear. Layout and furniture were designed together as one piece of office interior design rather than two separate exercises.
Why the workstation system carries the layout
The workstation system is the element the whole plan depends on. Every cluster is built from the same panel and desk components, which keeps the office visually consistent and makes the layout adjustable: a team that grows takes another bay in the same system rather than triggering a rebuild.
Because the panels act as divider, storage support and desk structure at once, the floor stays legible. You can see where you are and where your team sits without a corridor of closed rooms, and a visitor can be pointed to a zone rather than a door number.
It also keeps the fit-out reversible. On a leased floor, a layout assembled from a furniture system rather than construction can be reconfigured, extended, or moved to the next premises — a different proposition from partitions that have to be demolished at lease end, which is what an office reinstatement has to undo.
The result is 26 workstations across 2,500 sq ft, with panels screening sightlines at seated height rather than rooms closing them off. The capacity comes from how the clusters are arranged and how the panel heights are set — which is what planning the space before ordering the furniture is for.
A floor plate that reads as zones, not rows
square feet planned
workstation capacity
partition walls built
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