01 — Concept
The office as private library
Meridian is organised around the principles of a private library — quiet, generously proportioned, free of visible technology. Screens are concealed; storage is millwork.
CommercialDIFC, Dubai
MeridianOffice
A private investment office composed as a residence.
2025
Project Manifesto
How Meridian Office thinks.
A 1,200 m² family-office floor reframed as architecture — boardroom, reception, and analyst studio resolved through a single restrained material palette.
Architecture
Workplace dignified by domestic proportion. The plan organises around a central daylight axis — boardroom at one end, principal's suite at the other.
Materials
Honed limestone floors, smoked oak walls, dark bronze door pulls. No carpet tiles, no glass partitions, no system furniture.
Lighting
Daylight first; supplementary 3000K cove washes after dusk. The boardroom is lit by a single bronze pendant — no recessed ceiling grids anywhere.
Tone
Quiet, considered, residential. A workplace that reads as a private library.
Meridian Office
Workplace dignified by proportion
Design Narrative
How the project reads.
Four passages — concept, atmosphere, circulation, sensory language. The way every NOX FORM project is composed.
02 — Atmosphere
Calm, never corporate
No accent walls, no corporate art programme, no plant displays. The atmosphere is residential — warm stone, smoked timber, deep silence.
03 — Circulation
A single daylight axis
All public rooms align along a central north-south corridor. Private offices and the boardroom flank the axis behind solid bronze-clad doors.
04 — Sensory language
Acoustic precision
Felt-backed timber walls, wool rugs, and stone-finished ceilings yield a reverberation time below 0.4s — silence is the primary luxury.
Cinematic Gallery
Spatial sequence.
Each frame is a still from the same architectural film — composed for stillness, not for the camera.
Detail Frames
Close, slow, tactile.
Architecture lives in millimetres. These are the moments where the material reads — and where the building begins to feel inhabited.
Oak · Panel
Floor-to-ceiling smoked oak quiets the boardroom acoustically.
Bronze · Pull
Every door turns on a hand-finished dark bronze pull.
Daylight · Shelf
Light shelves bounce daylight onto stone ceilings — no glare.
Materiality
Material language.
A short, honest palette. Every surface is named — and chosen for how it ages, never for how it photographs.
01
Material
Honed Limestone
French limestone floor slabs — large format, soft beige, lightly veined.
02
Material
Smoked Oak
Floor-to-ceiling smoked oak panelling in the boardroom and principal's suite.
03
Material
Dark Bronze
Door pulls, pendant armatures, edge profiles on every solid-core door.
04
Material
Heavy Linen
Layered linen blinds across the south facade — primary daylight control.
05
Material
Indirect Daylight
Light shelves above each window reflect daylight onto stone ceilings — no glare.
Floorplan
The plan, drawn slowly.
A minimal architectural reading of Meridian Office — circulation, rooms, and thresholds resolved as a single quiet diagram.
BoardroomReceptionPrincipalAnalyst studio
Plan — single daylight axis, library proportion
Project Facts
Key metrics
- Type
- Single-tenant family office
- Area
- 1,200 m² — full floor
- Occupancy
- 14 principals + analysts
- Status
- Completed
- Timeline
- 11 months — strip-out to handover
- Scope
- Interior architecture, joinery, FF&E, AV integration
Immersive Preview
Step inside in 360°.
Walk through Meridian Office as it stands today — every plane, every material, every threshold — in a full spherical view.
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