Wipro House Koramangala

Overview

Opportunity

Solution

Impact

Team

Reimagining a Workplace Legacy: This 84,000-square-foot Bangalore headquarters elevates the employee experience while showcasing Wipro’s consumer-driven products.

Location

Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Client

Wipro Limited

Expertise

Technology Office Developers [FPO] Climate Action [FPO] Sustainability Strategy

Opportunity

As a tight labor market heats up competition for talent, Indian employees, especially a values-driven younger generation, choose workplaces that offer meaning, comfort, and community.

To compete for values-driven talent, Wipro needed its new headquarters to offer greater meaning, comfort, and community. Relocating from an expansive campus with outdoor landscapes to a dense urban neighborhood in Bangalore made that ambition more challenging. The workplace also had to be delivered within a modest footprint and budget, while working within the limitations of an existing core and shell.

Why This Matters

01
Talent Through Experience
In Bangalore’s competitive talent market, Wipro saw an opportunity to create a workplace that reflects employee values, attracts purpose-driven talent, and strengthens its employer brand.
02
Recreating Nature in Density
As Wipro moved from a green campus to a dense urban setting, maintaining employees’ connection to nature and wellbeing became a key priority. The project’s success depended on delivering a restorative, human-centered experience despite spatial constraints.
03
A Future-Ready Brand Home
Beyond accommodating work, Wipro House had to embody the company’s legacy and innovation culture. Success created a destination that strengthened brand identity, collaboration, and employee engagement for years to come.

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Solution

The neighboring park inspired Wipro House’s central design idea: bringing the restorative qualities of nature into a vertical urban workplace.

Biophilic strategies layer throughout the workplace — from the façade to refuge terraces and breakout zones. A sculptural staircase connecting floors 3-6 fosters informal gatherings and spontaneous discussions. The shift from cubicles to a collaborative open floor plan accommodates modern work modes. The workplace serves as a living brand narrative, with the reception lobby commemorating 75 years of Wipro’s legacy and an experience center that demonstrates product innovation.

Wipro House brings the restorative experience of a green campus into a vertical urban workplace, supporting employee wellbeing.

Open floor plates allow teams to work fluidly, while screens and furnishings offer moments of privacy. The result is an experience-driven workplace that feels generous, green, and deeply connected to its context, despite being located in one of Bangalore’s busiest neighborhoods.

What Changed Because of This

01
Enhanced Workplace Experience
Open floor plates, a sculptural staircase, interconnected levels, and collaboration-focused interiors replaced traditional workplace models, creating a more dynamic environment that encourages interaction.
02
Nature Integrated Into Work
Terraces, breakout zones, and layered planting bring the adjacent park indoors, restoring the green-campus experience within Wipro’s compact urban headquarters.
03
Stronger Brand Presence
The headquarters became a living showcase of Wipro's 75-year legacy, innovation, and future ambitions, bringing business units together while creating a destination for employees, clients, and visitors.

The challenge was not simply to bring nature indoors, but to translate Wipro’s campus culture into a connected vertical workplace.

Recognition

01

Commercial Design India

Highlights the headquarters inauguration, featuring its experience center, collaborative interiors, innovation facilities, biophilic planting, and sustainability initiatives across the seven-floor workplace.

Team

Project Leadership

Naseera Razak

As Co-Managing Director and Principal of Gensler’s Bangalore office, Naseera shapes the office’s strategic direction, strengthens client relationships, and champions design quality. She ensures each project translates client ambitions into clear, high-performing design outcomes.

[FPO] Ajay Singh

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FAQ

01

Where is this project located?

Wipro House is located in Koramangala, Bengaluru, India, within a dense urban neighborhood adjacent to a prominent public park.

02

What was the main design challenge?

Wipro needed to translate the experience of its expansive green campus into an 84,000 square-foot vertical headquarters within an existing urban building.

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The neighboring park inspired a biophilic design approach that extends nature throughout the workplace through terraces, breakout areas, layered planting, and vertical gardens.

04

What inspired the design concept?

Open floor plates accommodate flexible work modes, while a sculptural staircase connecting floors three through six encourages informal meetings and spontaneous interaction.

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How does the design support collaboration?

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