Intercon Company Profile: Retail, Leisure & Public Spaces

Intercon Company Profile 2020 Retail, Leisure Public Spaces

Company History

Intercon is an interior design and architecture firm founded in 1993. We work internationally to create unique spaces where beauty, aesthetics and innovation blend seamlessly with sustainable functionality.

We undertake special bespoke projects of various degrees of complexity and scale with a common purpose: to create flawless living and working spaces.

We successfully supply highly focused and specialized services to our clients, with the most respect for sustainability, delivering properties that respond to their needs, sometimes in extremely challenging buildings.

Our international and multicultural team has played a key role in establishing our office in the ever-widening markets we work on. Through strategic partnerships, Intercon currently delivers a wide range of interior design services in Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia.

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Our Philosophy

Mission To design spaces that exceed client requirements, merging aesthetics, innovation and functionality to provide unique experiences where the interiorism speaks for itself and is centered around the user and the context of the international locations where we work at.

Vision To be a global benchmark for interior design architecture while maintaining our independence and distinctive style to deliver the most adequate design concepts by dialoguing and understanding our clients’ views.

Values ·Client Service ·Sustainability ·Quality ·Commitment ·Cooperation

Services

Design

Strategy

Project Implementation

· Programming

· Workplace consulting

· Construction Documents

· Space Planning

· Feasibility Studies

· Bidding

· Interior Design

· Marketing Plans

· Engineering Coordination

· Schematic Design

· Code & Zoning

· Construction Administration

· Space Standards

· Site Evaluations

· Furniture Standards

· Preliminary Programming

· Furniture Schedules

· Cost Analysis

· Construction Administration

· Due Diligence

· Sustainable Design · Signage / Graphic Design · Art Procurement · 3D Animation / Rendering

Retail We design interiors that are loyal to the brand’s philosophy and which deliver a unique retail exposure for their products, focusing on the relationship between the user and the space where the layout, materials and other design elements become one to supply an unforgettable shopping experience.

Retail Projects

Reem Mall

Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Year: 2015 Status: Construction Program: Shopping Mall

Located on Reem Island with fantastic views to the marina, Reem Mall is the shopping, entertainment and food destination for the high-end residential developments of Hazaa bin Zayed Street and Al Reem Island. The interior design concept draws inspiration from elements of the local landscape like salt and the salt mangrove, reflected in materials like glass and metal, and the patterns and organic shapes which characterize this salt-tolerant shrub. The program of the mall includes the interior design development for all public spaces inside the mall: circulation spaces, food courts, prayer room, public toilets and administration offices.

This notion allows to create a unique interior space based on the beauty of the context where the development is located. The north side of the mall accentuates the connection to Reem Island Bridge through the sharp angles which join the different levels, creating a dynamic effect which is highlighted by the patterned glass ceiling. The south side overlaps volumes by dividing the space into individual crystals which orientate visitors through the interconnected spaces. This transition is overlapped, reinforced by layers of paving patterns and materials.

The Mangrove Atrium, the heart of the mall, is the largest open space, programmed to host different events and acts as the main access point from the parking levels situated above ground. On the top floor, the Mangrove Food Court evoques the mangrove forest with patterned columns in shades of green and blue which emerge like trees, with two skylines that fill the space with natural light.

Foodcourt

Central Mangrove

Retail Projects

Colibri Gastromarket

Location: Almaty, Kazakhstan Year: 2015 Status: Completed Program: Supermarket

A boutique mall dedicated to cater high-quality home appliances and a food and drinks supermarket comprised of several spaces, with a high-standard selection of products and brands unique to Kazakhstan. The interior design proposal for the grocery store is based around providing a better shopping experience for customers and let the gastronomic selection speak for itself, highlighting the gourmet qualities of the products sold in the market in a modern appearance and a neutral palette.

Counter Area

The Colibri brand was seeking for a cozy, friendly and familyoriented atmosphere for their clients, something which the interior design achieves by applying a comprehensive and coherent layout to this large space, where all the regional and international products are clearly on display in a fuss-free ambience which sets this gourmet market apart from the traditional supermarket design.

Wood, white ceramic tiles and stone are the main materials employed to exhibit the colorful array of products in a clean, minimalistic way, with interesting details like latticed woodwork in the ceiling. Spaciousness is another key feature of the supermarket, and an industrial feel has been applied by exposing pipes and ventilation units. The space is comprehensively divided into different sections which lack of physical divisions to make the shopping experience a practical and most importantly, a pleasurable one.

Backery

Juice Bar

Retail Projects

Sahara Mall West Expansion

Location: Sharjah, United Arab Emirates Year: 2014 Status: Construction Program: Shopping Mall

This project is an expansion of the existing Sahara Mall located in Sharjah. The design seamlessly links to the existing shopping mall, making way for a wide range of high-end retail spaces to attract a more diverse and international mix of shoppers. Located in the heart of Sharjah, it acts as a focal point for shopping, meeting and relaxing. The interior design is inspired by the beauty, colors and textures of the desert, applied in a way that the new spaces are understood as a continuity of the existing Sahara Mall, which represented a design challenge from the beginning. The program includes the interior design of all public spaces inside the New West Extension and for the transition areas: mall corridors, public toilets, lift lobbies, prayer rooms and the clinics module which has a separate entrance.

Fine Dining

Main Atrium

Shopping Area

Ablution

The Transition Zone links both developments. This bridge welcomes and guides visitors to the new expansion and has the same spirit as the existing mall. A warm and dynamic atmosphere is achieved, with inspirational elements like the desert references present in the fine dining area which provide a cozy space by combining warm textures, palm tree shapes and a touch of bright colors with natural light coming from the roof skylight.

Dark piers with colored lights are used to frame each unit and generate rhythm in the path to the new west aisle. Dynamic corridors provide access to the main atrium, which is the heart of the extension area and a vibrant space for shoppers to meet and immerse themselves in the retail experience naturally illuminated by a central skylight.

Public & Leisure We design original environments focused on the programmatic requirements of the scope, with a high awareness of the space relationships wants to establish not only with the users, but also with its context, to maximize participation and engagement between all stakeholders.

Public & Leisure Projects

Basra Cultural Palace

Location: Basra, Iraq Year: 2014 Status: Competition Program: Cultural center

The new headquarters of the Basra Governorate occupy an extension of 20,868m2. Aside office and administration areas, the design also contemplates a multifunctional program, as the Governorate wants to host different cultural events and festivals taking place in the Iraqi city. Therefore, other spaces like exhibitions areas, conference and cinema halls, a theatre, broadcasting department and large areas with greenery have been included in the proposed design. The brief for the competition also asked for a concept which reflected the heritage and culture of the city, so this is the main design narrative followed in the interior.

Library

Given the extension of the building, one key issue was to fill the massive spaces with natural light. This is achieved through the diagonal-shaped openings in the facade, which resemble dots in Arabic Calligraphy, and allow plenty of light to enter the space. This is mimicked by the light-toned wood handrails which are designed with a similar zig-zag to those of the openings. This calligraphic reference is a remark about the position the city enjoyed as a great centre of learning and theology at the beginning of its history.

As the program includes the organization of several events, the interior design bares in mind the inclusion of the latest in sound and lighting technology for the festivals and exhibitions taking place in the building. It also and conforms to contemporary architectural codes of design, efficiency, sustainability, safety and security.

Ramps

Exterior View

Public & Leisure Projects

Nobook and Uma restaurants

Location: Barcelona, Spain Year: 2016 Status: Completed Program: Restaurant

Nobook is an unconventional and innovative restaurant which wants to surprise customers with the creativity of its menu. To match this imaginative proposal, the interior design is based around an industrial aesthetic, exposing brick walls, graffities referencing Basquiat, open ventilation units and high ceilings.

Bespoke furniture made out of recycled materials has been designed specifically to meet the uniqueness of the space.

The open kitchen, painted in a striking peach orange to match the team’s uniforms, stands out as the most spectacular element. For the cocktail bar, the use of metallic profiles creates an industrial forest. Overall, the space seeks to awake a feeling of surprise, of the unexpected and a feeling of curiosity which precedes the gastronomic proposal.

Public & Leisure Projects

Mayta DIFC Restaurant

Location: Dubai, UAE Year: 2015 Status: Completed Program: Bar & Restaurant

Mayta is a Peruvian restaurant which reinvents traditional recipes from the South American country by applying modern techniques.

This transgressive approach is replicated in the concept developed for the interiorism, with different areas which have been designed to fulfill all the experiences offered in the eatery which is also a cocktail bar. Therefore, different design needs were required to cater and attract a diverse typology of clients.

The Peruvian flair is achieved with the patterned tiles which replicate traditional motifs in an array of colors and with a contemporary touch, as well as with other decorative elements reminiscent of the country. Wood is the dominating material, and together with the greenery scattered around the space, it recreates a tropical atmosphere in Dubai’s Capital Club, the city’s premier private business club.

The space is divided in several areas, each with a unique atmosphere which reinterprets the Peruvian culture in a design language which modernizes folkloric references: the bar, with the signature ceramic tiles; a ceviche bar, with comfortable armchairs and tables to enhance intimate conversations while enjoying one of Mayta’s specialities and Peru’s most popular dish; a lunch area with differentlsized wooden tables to cater for both small and big groups in a dim lighting; and the central kitchen where all the action takes place.

Public & Leisure Projects

Hola, La Mer Jumeirah Open Beach Restaurant Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates Year: 2016 Status: Completed Program: Restaurant

Hola, meaning Hello in Spanish, is located in the beachfront of the coastline of Dubai. It embodies the concept of “Latin America meets the United Arab Emirates.” Inspired by the owners’ travels around South America and their passion for the gastronomy of that region, the design translates this idea into a colorful, spicy, bright, joyful and fun beach café. The beach area is enhanced with boardwalks, freestanding retail shops, food & beverage tenancies and the surrounding landscape.

The menu, composed by exotic, fresh fruit-based treats, is equally matched by the vibrant design. All the elements are designed with a bespoke attention to detail. From the designs of the colorful, patterned ceramic tiles to the weaved-like lights. The interior is a bold demonstration of how different, yet planned disposition of varied textures across the space complements the gastronomic offer in a contemporary manner.

All the elements play a key role and all materials are there for a purpose. The reclaimed timber wood used in the floor and the ceiling connects the restaurant with the seafront and depicts a modern take on rusticity. The steelwork and big glass doors and window frames the place to mimic the style of the cafes and bars found in the Spanish coastline, which also symbolizes an open invitation to come in and enjoy a holiday-like atmosphere.

Public & Leisure Projects

Moylo’s Burguer

Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates Year: 2014 Status: Completed Program: Restaurant

Street burguer bar and grill restaurant for Moylo’s in Jumeirah, Dubai. Full concept developed for a new chain well as food truck and tuk tuk. All materials used are recycled or reused.

Public & Leisure Projects

New Cairo German School

Location: Cairo, Egypt Year: 2014 Status: Completed Program: Educational

The New Cairo German School is integrated in the Town Center of the New Cairo Masterplan, a green city located on the southeast edge of the Cairo Governorate. The school is divided in two buildings, each with a specific program. The first one hosts a kindergarten, and the second, which is the main building, the Primary, Secondary and High Schools. The new facilities have been designed to meet modern standards which encourage a positive impact on the academic and social life of the students.

To achieve this, luminosity prevails in both buildings, as the abundance of light has demonstrated to improve performance and concentration. A lightness in the use of furniture also benefits the overall conduct and wellbeing. All these furnishings have been chosen because of their durability and ergonomic qualities, suited to be used as seats for several hours and resistant to long term wear and tear.

Cafeteria

The design of the common areas as the library, the reception and the cafeteria has a modern, clean and fresh interior design, far away from the standard design often seen in schools centers, which aims to treat students like the adults they will become once they finish their education. Wooden panelling in the ceilings and carpets improve the acoustics, and the use of local plants the quality of the air.

Reception

Library

Public & Leisure Projects

Qatar Chamber of Commerce

Location: Doha, Qatar Year: 2015 Status: Completed Program: Offices

The concept design is based around highlighting the mission of Qatar’s Chamber of Commerce, which is to promote and protect the interests of the companies in the agricultural, industrial and commercial sectors. Aside the office spaces, this 18,000m2 building will also include an exhibition hall, Majlis and a library. Maroon -the color of the country’s national flag- golden and neutral hues have a strong presence here to set the mood in a grandiloquent, open space.

5th Floor

Arab patterns are found throughout. Wooden lattices in the main lobby span a few meters up to provide a decorative box complemented by the geometries on the stone floor and the jewelry-like pendant lights. The Majlis, a space for reunion and debate, is arranged around a circular ceiling which is the source of illumination, originated by sculptural-shaped lights which descend from the geometrical ceiling. Around it, more local motifs add to the decoration which are also present in the floor, creating a sense of mirror reflection.

The offices feature richly decorated carpets, several wooden partitions to host meeting rooms as well as waiting areas with sofas. Overall, the interior design strives to spotlight the cultural and commercial pride the Chamber of Commerce wants to transmit to its members when representing them and their industries regionally and internationally.

Majlis

Presidential

Public & Leisure Projects

English School

Location: Cairo, Egypt Year: 2018 Status: Design Program: Public Space (educational)

The project is an international school with a plot area of 20,210 square meters. The school built up area is about 17,394 square meters. The project is conceived to house an international school that offers superior quality education in a high-end interior environment.

Minimal interior space, with some accent color patches combines with light oak veneer finish to create lively spaces. Black Lines, volumetric cubes, and vibrant yellow and blue color tones defines the reception space. Light grey ceramic floor, black, grey, white and color paint on walls. Some wooden linear louvers highlight certain ceiling parts.

Cafeteria

The classrooms has plain white painted walls with wooden treated doors. Patches of highlight colors are present in some parts.

Furniture are treated in dark grey or wooden finish to leave the colors contrast the space.

Corridors are minimal mainly painted white, however with edgy framing of black and colored edges of the wooden doors. Built in elements in walls are treated with wood finish. Courtyard fill circulatory corridors with natural light. Green, yellow, blue, and orange are the highlight colors used.

Fresh Crisp interior with light wooden treated finish for some fixed furniture and door partitions, and linoleum with wood texture for the floor. Candy colored patches on walls as well as on loose furniture elements.

Reception

Classroom

Public & Leisure Projects

Sahara Mall VO-Clinics

Location: Sharjah, United Arab Emirates Year: 2019 Status: Design Program: Public Space

The Clinic is located in the Sahara Mall as part of the West zone.

The concept for the Clinic follows the proposed theme applied for the mall but focused on those special spaces, the Oasis, we find in the desert. The design is inspired in the spirit of the oasis, colours, textures, shadows, light, to create a relaxed and warm atmosphere to welcome the customer. Palm trees leafs give us the patterns for the walls, clean lines emphasising the volumes, lines of light to emphasize the volumes to create a contemporary space. Combination of the textures inspired in the sand of the desert, patterns of the palm trees with the reflexion of the calmed water we can find in those spaces.

Lounge

Lobby reception is paneled with wooden sheets that continues up to the ceiling to form a box. The floor is adorned with an special pattern grey marble tiles and green granite tiles resembling reflection of palm leaves. The walls are emphasized with tinted green mirror adding to the contrast of the space. The lift lobby on the other hand is differentiated with wood veneer paneling.

The space is intended to create an ambience of an oasis in colors and reflections.

Public Areas are designed to provide a calmed and warm atmosphere to welcome the customer by using a combination of continuous surfaces, clean lines for the walls and flooring, soft and warm colors and ambient light. Ceramic tiles flooring terrazzo effect to remain the sand effect is proposed, nude color for walls tiles /fixed furniture, special walls to be emphasized are proposed in texturized wood or accent colors.

Main Entrance

Corridor

Middle East 27%

2019 Projects Europe 8%

Residential - Av Foch. Paris, France - Monestir 10. Barcelona, Spain - AM 41. Barcelona, Spain

Asia 4%

2% of total projects

2%

21%

Hospitality - Vung Tau Six Star Hotel. Nghenh Phong Cape, Vietnam - Wellness Retreat. India

Africa 4%

6% of total projects

18% of total projects

Hotel - 4 Star Hotel + Offices. Rabat, Morocco - Rove Hotel Maurutania

18%

Workspaces - 4 Star Hotel + Offices. Rabat, Morocco

2%

Residential - Alysor Resdential Building. Cairo Egypt

2%

Public & Leisure - English School. Cairo Egypt

74% of total projects

Hospitality - MAREIC 4 star Hotel. Madinah, KSA - BIAP 3 stars Hotel. Baghad, Iraq - Kizad HQ Office and Hotel. Abu Dhabi, UAE - Al Shurayrah Hotel. Red Sea, KSA - Mixed Use Exit 10 (Ph1) & Project 2. Riyadh, KSA - Amala Tripple Bay Staff Village. Red Sea, KSA - 5-star Luxury Mountain Resort. Tabuk, KSA - Project Zero Mixed Use. Dubai, UAE - Al Marjan Project. Al Marjan, UAE - Island Resort. Abu Dhabi, UAE - Gran Meliรก Hotel. Jeddah KSA - Lagoona Motorsport Park. KAEC, KSA

4%

Retail - Fujairah Entertainment Center. Fujairah, UAE - Yas Marina Office Concept Design. Abu Dhabi, UAE

8%

Public & Leisure - Mainstream School Reach. Yas Island, Abu Dhabi - American Community School. Abu Dhabi, UAE - Misk Academy School. Riyadh, KSA - Expo 2020 Sustainability Pavilion. Dubai, UAE

(September)

71

2018

85

2017 2016

63

2015

61

Residential - Jubail Island Residential Development. Abu Dhabi, UAE - Mixed Use Exit 10 (Ph1) & Project 2. Riyadh, KSA - NEOM Industrial City Masterplan. Neom, KSA - Private Villa B+G+1+Majlis+Driver blocks. Dubai, UAE - Dr Al Habib Dubai Villa. Dubai, UAE - Project Zero Mixed Use. Dubai, UAE - 4 Star Hotel in Al Waab. Dubai, UAE - Muweilah Residential. Sharjah, UAE - 4 Start Hotel and Apartments. Dubai, UAE Workspaces - Kizad HQ Office and Hotel. Abu Dhabi, UAE - Fujairah Entertainment Center. Fujairah, UAE - Offices Building ADPC - OSA. Abu Dhabi, UAE - Yas Marina Office Concept Design. Abu Dhabi, UAE - Al Marjan Project. Al Marjan, UAE - Peninsula .DIFC Offices. Dubai, UAE - Dewan Saudi Offices. KSA - Obhur Compound & Private Residence. Zahran, KSA

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Awards

LUX Life Magazine Awards:

LUX Life Magazine Awards:

Build Awards:

2018 Meed Project Awards

Best International Hospitality Architecture Design Firm - Spain

Leaders in Hotel Design 2018 - Spain

Best Large - Scale Interior Design Specialist & Most Innovative Restaurant Design

Awarded First Prize for National Retail Project of the Year : Reem Mall

This award is a recognition of our commitment to innovation and dedication to quality.

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Certification

Chart Management Mohammed Adib Managing Director madib@intercon.es Jeanine Lima Caminha Projects Director jlima@intercon.es

Cluster Managers Antje Borgstede Kaina Celedon (Miami) Patricia Comín Jorge Andrés Espinosa Floriana La Mola Team Leader’s Tania Carmona Maria Díaz Anna Riba Senior Architects Anna Gloria Cortés Núria Padulles William Palencia Mónica Ramirez

Project Manager Mira Kanj (Dubai) Fernanda Muñoz (Chipre)

Production María José Alcain Jose Vázquez

Legal Architects Màrius Carceller Jordi Solé

Graphic Design Roger Ametller

Business Development Rania Abdelhadi Interior Architects Sabrina Kenssous Renata Piccoli QS Victor Romero

Accounting Cristina Ventura Administration Laura Rodríguez IT Roberto López

20 years creating unique spaces

Intercon design offices C/ De La Riba, 36 Esplugues de LLobregat 08950 Barcelona - Spain T. +34 933 427 427 F. +34 933 427 420 Info@intercon.es www.intercon.es