Jabama’s headquarters occupies three floors of a newly constructed seven-story office building, handed over as open floor plates without an interior fit-out. The project transforms this unconfigured space into a workplace organized around departmental needs, everyday encounters, and a shared sense of belonging. Jabama is an online platform connecting travelers with accommodation across Iran. The brief called for an environment that could accommodate a large, diverse workforce while expressing the company’s relationship with places, hospitality, and local culture.

The project comprises approximately 1,200 square meters of interior space across a 600-square-meter lower level and two upper levels of approximately 300 square meters each, complemented by a separate 250-square-meter terrace. The difference between the lower and middle floor plates creates this terrace, extending the shared program beyond the enclosed interior. Existing vertical circulation, service infrastructure, and the characteristics of each floor plate formed the starting point for the intervention. Within these constraints, the design establishes a range of spatial settings with different degrees of enclosure, privacy, and interaction.

The three levels are organized as complementary parts of a single workplace. The lower level accommodates commercial and sales teams, technology and product development, finance, human resources and legal, marketing, and creative teams. Open work areas are combined with enclosed rooms where greater privacy is required, while informal seating and small meeting spaces introduce alternatives to desk-based work. Departmental relationships and staff capacity inform the distribution of these spaces around the existing access cores.

The middle level brings together meeting rooms, break rooms, recreational spaces, and a café, connecting to the terrace used as a lounge and restaurant. Positioned between the two principal working levels, it acts as a shared destination for employees from different departments. Meeting rooms can be combined to accommodate gatherings of different sizes, giving the shared floor flexibility as organizational needs change. Waiting areas and informal gathering spaces occupy the intervals between enclosed rooms, allowing circulation to support conversation and short pauses as well as movement. A retractable roof allows the terrace to alternate between covered and open-air configurations for dining and informal gatherings.

The upper level is dedicated to the call center and quality assurance teams, which account for a substantial part of the workforce. Its more concentrated workstation arrangement is complemented by a separate quality assurance area and a place for rest. Across the project, openings and transparent partitions in enclosed rooms maintain visual connections with adjacent spaces while defining distinct settings for different activities.

The design language draws on the domestic atmosphere and architectural references of southern Iran, a region significant to Jabama’s development and accommodation network. Rounded corners, arched openings, slatted overhead elements, planting, and attention to available natural light translate these references into a contemporary office interior. Their role is to give the workplace a more familiar scale and atmosphere, connecting the company’s identity with the spaces employees inhabit each day.

Microcement was selected as a principal finish to support this architectural language. Its cement-like appearance recalls the material character of vernacular homes, while the specification responds to the durability requirements of a busy workplace and surfaces exposed to everyday wear. The material choice connects the intended domestic atmosphere with the practical demands of office use.

The eastern and western walls are conceived as active surfaces throughout the three levels. Recesses accommodate storage, books, personal belongings, and objects and images associated with Iranian cities and their cultures. These walls combine practical requirements with opportunities for display and personalization, allowing the interior to reflect both a collective identity and individual occupation.

The interior fit-out gives the previously unconfigured office floors a coherent spatial identity through the relationships between focused work, collective activity, and everyday life. A sequence of open areas, enclosed rooms, and shared spaces offers employees different ways to work, meet, and take a break, while a consistent architectural language connects the three levels.