O Design Office creates spaces with thoughtful consideration of human experience. We are driven by the conviction to craft better spaces that enrich living. Established by Timo Wong and Priscilla Lui of Studio Juju in 2023 as a creative endeavour in spatial design, we adopt a user-centric approach to designing spaces and have since completed projects for dwellings, workplaces, retail and exhibitions.

The interior arrangement of this house was previously fragmented into various enclosed spaces, stacked upon one another, with a narrow stairwell leading to each of these rooms.

To reimagine the dwellers’ experiences in a more connected living arrangement, the entire house was pared down to an empty state. We focused on the idea of connecting the different types of spaces through the composition of geometries and openings to create a breathable and spacious environment.

On ground level, the outdoors is introduced from the front yard into the living hall and the activity basement, connecting the three spaces through a distinct use of the terracotta floor material. The living hall’s tall vertical volume is architecturally expressed by the juxtaposition of the round mezzanine sitting above a timber block that housed the kitchen. On the upper floors, walls and openings are orchestrated along the stairs, leading to a curved surface that filters in soft natural daylight from the roof window, culminating the sensory experience of feeling light and space at home.

The composition of openings recur throughout the design, to express connectedness and privacy, movements and stillness, light and shadows.

Year of completion: 2025
Location: Holland Grove, Singapore
Floor area: 3500 sqft
Client: Private
Project team: Ye Xiaoxuan
Photography: Fabian Ong

Our second spatial design for Thoughtworks, after designing their previous office in 2017. Thoughtworks needed a client engagement area in their new office, and the challenge is to create a segregation between the normal work spaces and client’s area, in a sociable and professional manner.

Instinctively, the concept of a “hub” to host the clients with essential ammenities, would help to facilitate this unique work engagement. These areas include dedicated meeting rooms of various sizes, booth seats, a break-out lounge, quiet rooms for picking up private calls, and a presentation arena.

The Thoughtwokers’ work zone scenarios maintained agile in terms of workflow and movements, where small meeting spaces and discussion zones are in close proximity, supporting the nature of this cross collaborative work environment. Focus rooms and lounges are strategically located to facilitate needs for quiet work or taking calls.

The overall atmosphere created, is one that yields to be refreshing, sociable, and comprehensive in the needs of an efficient and happy day at work.

Year of completion: 2024
Location: China Street, Singapore
Floor area: 12,000 sqft
Client: Thoughtworks
Project team: Ye Xiaoxuan
Lighting designer: Light Collab
Mural: Thoughtworks
Photography: Studio Periphery

LIKEABLES EXHIBITION

We created the spatial layout for the Likeables exhibition by Studio Juju at the Peranakan Museum, Singapore.

Studio Juju’s furniture pieces are presented on squarish low platforms that are aligned along the linear gallery, individually paced between the architectural columns. Studio Juju’s Chocolates sculptures are spaced out to punctuate each display area, creating a rhythmic viewing experience.

The display surfaces are made of untrimmed 4ft x 8ft birch plywood, and elevated by compressed wood pallets, all of which will be reused and repurposed.

Year of completion: 2024
Client: Studio Juju
Location: Peranakan Museum, Singapore
Photography: Studio Periphery

THE SPACE

An assembly of sculptural forms translates the concept for The Space 공간 , a Korean hair salon located at 100AM mall in Singapore.

With the vision to conceive a coherent and confident narrative for the client’s brand The Space 공간, the frontage of the salon defines the gesture of the spatial narrative. Two free standing soft sculptural forms partially conceal the view to the interior, drawing the eye into the spaces between, and inviting customers to enter between the two walls. The atmosphere of the interior is characterised by the composition of spacing and forms, and by means of light, colours and materials, highlighted the relationships between the elements.

In the core of the salon, another free standing volume with a ceiling canopy houses the shampoo space, where it was concealed behind the reception wall. With openings for ambience light to filter in, customers rest in a more private setting to enjoy their hair wash.

The free standing elements, finished in light peach paint texture, provided a natural palette that reinforces the spatial narrative of the context and the brand.

Year of completion: 2023
Location: 100AM, Singapore
Floor area: 1153 sqft
Client: The Space
Project team: Greg Chin
Photography: Don Wong