DFT Office

The DFT Office was conceived as a workplace that integrates nature into its architectural language, directly reflecting the client’s philosophy: "Penetrating nature into the skin,” a concept central to their soap product campaign. This vision informed a design strategy that blurs the boundaries between architecture and landscape, creating a spatial continuum between outdoor, semi-outdoor, and interior environments. Greenery is interwoven throughout the building’s form, offering a holistic spatial experience that embodies the client’s ethos of natural integration. The six-storey building is thoughtfully carved from the ground floor upwards, generating a vertical sequence of semi-outdoor and green spaces that distribute throughout the building. Each workplace is afforded direct access to an individual green area, fostering a connection with nature and enhancing the well-being of occupants. This landscape strategy not only enriches the spatial quality but also serves a practical function—vegetation moderated solar heat gain, reduces glare, and lowers the demand for mechanical cooling, thereby contributing to the building’s overall energy efficiency. To enhance environmental performance, the building employs a double-skin facade system using U-channel glass, with interior spaces strategically offset to reduce heat gain. The U-channel glass is applied in two distinct ways according to spatial function:.