The Indian design-and-build company has delivered a purpose-built R&D and innovation campus in Singapore for a leading Korean automotive group, at a time when the future of mobility is being redefined through technology and research.
The future of mobility may be engineered through algorithms, electrification and advanced research, but the physical spaces where those ideas take shape are becoming equally important.
Against this backdrop, Eleganz Interiors Limited has announced the successful delivery of a landmark R&D and Innovation Campus in Singapore for a leading Korean automotive group. Designed as an environment for research, engineering and innovation, the campus marks another step in the Indian workspace design and build company’s international expansion.
The project also arrives at an important moment for Singapore’s innovation economy. Under its Research, Innovation and Enterprise 2030 plan, Singapore is set to invest S$37 billion in research and development over the next five years, building on the S$28 billion committed under RIE2025.
At the same time, the automotive industry is undergoing one of its most significant transformations in generations. Global research and development spending on automobiles and transport reached €146 billion in 2023, according to the European Commission’s Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard.
The new campus sits at the intersection of these two movements: Singapore’s growing position as an innovation hub and the automotive industry’s accelerating investment in the technologies that will shape how the world moves.
Designing for the Business of Innovation
R&D environments demand a different approach from conventional corporate workplaces. They need to accommodate collaboration, experimentation, engineering and highly specialised workflows, while allowing teams to move between focused work and collective problem-solving.
Eleganz’s Singapore project follows its integrated Design and Build model, bringing strategy, design, engineering, procurement and execution under one framework.
For clients operating in technically demanding sectors, that integration can become particularly important. Bringing multiple stages of a project under a single accountable structure allows design decisions, engineering requirements, procurement and execution to remain closely connected.
The result is a workplace designed not simply around aesthetics, but around the way research and innovation actually happen.
An Indian Operating Model on a Global Stage
For Eleganz, the Singapore campus represents more than another international project. It is also a test of whether an operating model developed in India can meet the expectations of one of the world’s most sophisticated markets.
Speaking about the project, Sammeer Pakvasa, Managing Director and CEO, Eleganz Interiors Limited, said:
“Singapore has been a true test of whether an operating model built in India can travel intact to one of the world’s most sophisticated markets. An Indian brand does not walk into a global market with borrowed trust. Credibility abroad has to be earned project by project, on the strength of consistent delivery. This campus is that proof. To be entrusted with an environment where the future of mobility will be imagined and engineered is a responsibility we take great pride in, and it strengthens our conviction as we enter our fourth decade.”
The project strengthens Eleganz’s international footprint, with Singapore among its seven key offices alongside Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, NCR and Pune.
Nearly Four Decades of Workspace Expertise
Founded in 1988, Eleganz has delivered more than 1,000 projects spanning over 30 million square feet across 35-plus cities.
Its portfolio extends across corporate workplaces, BFSI, healthcare, hospitality and commercial environments, serving both Indian and global organisations.
As the company approaches its fourth decade, its proposition increasingly combines design-led thinking with technology-enabled execution and sustainable delivery practices.
The company’s 360-degree approach encompasses people, administration, infrastructure, digital systems, factory operations and site execution, alongside the technology and processes supporting its design studio.
The objective is to create an interconnected delivery ecosystem in which people, processes, technology, design and execution work together to improve coordination, transparency, efficiency and delivery certainty.
Where Design Meets Sustainability
Sustainability is another component of the company’s workplace philosophy. Eleganz is a founding member of the Indian Green Building Council and has experience working with LEED- and WELL-oriented principles.
For contemporary workplaces—particularly highly specialised environments such as R&D campuses—sustainability is increasingly moving beyond a standalone certification exercise. It intersects with employee wellbeing, operational efficiency, material selection and the long-term performance of the built environment.
That perspective becomes particularly relevant when the workplace itself is expected to support innovation.
Building the Spaces Behind Tomorrow’s Mobility
The Singapore project ultimately reflects a broader change taking place across the workplace and automotive industries.
As mobility becomes increasingly connected to artificial intelligence, electrification, advanced materials and software, the physical environment supporting that research needs to evolve alongside it.
Eleganz’s latest international delivery places an Indian design-and-build company within that transformation—creating the physical infrastructure for research that could influence the next generation of mobility.
And in Singapore, where national investment in research and innovation is accelerating, the campus represents more than a new workplace. It is a space designed around a future that is still being engineered.
