morphogenesis_selected works by tanya kohli

m o r p h o g e n e s i s . selected works 1996-2011

a morphogenesis.education publication

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Firm Profile Index- Selected Projects The way we work

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Publications Exhibitions and Lectures Awards Complete List of Projects

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Morphogenesis is recognized globally as one of the leading Architecture firms from India. Founded in 1996, the firm is based out of New Delhi and is a collective offering specialized services in Architecture, Interior design, Masterplanning, Urban design, Landscape design and Environmental design consultancy. At Morphogenesis, we understand that we are working in an environment with limited resources. Hence, design is viewed as a process that is a resultant of different stimuli, ranging from climatic conditions, financial and market forces, globalization, local conditions, prevalent traditions and technologies, and the community. It is this all-inclusive nature of design with a unique focus on passive and low energy architecture that we believe, will define the new emergent Indian architecture. The work of the practice has been exhibited at various locations globally including Urban Islands (Sydney), Timeless @ Experimenta Design Festival (Lisbon), The Urban Habitat Summit at India Habitat Centre (New Delhi), Gallerie ROM (Oslo) and the Royal Institute of British Architects (London). The practice has been the recipient of over 30 international and national awards and accolades including the Best Learning Building- World Architecture Festival Awards (Barcelona), Green Good Designâ&#x201E;˘ AwardThe European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and The Chicago Athenaeum (European Union), FuturArc Green Leadership Award (Singapore), The Architectural Review Cityscape Awards, Indian Institute of Interior Designers- MK Award and the JIIA (Indian Institute of Architects) Award for excellence in architecture amongst others. The work of the practice has also been extensively published in over 100 national publications such as The Times of India, India Today, The Hindustan Times, Business Standard etc. as well as numerous international publications including Financial Times (UK), The New York Times (USA), Wallpaper (UK), Domus (Italy), The Guardian (UK), etc. Early projects such as the Corporate Office for Apollo Tyres (2000) and The Uttorayon Township, Siliguri (2006) won the studio international acclaim and approbation during the initial years. More recent realized projects such as Pearl Academy of Fashion- Jaipur (2008), Corporate Office for India Glycols- Noida (2009), and the Factory and Offices for the DS Group (2011) amongst others have won numerous national and international honors. Current and upcoming projects in progress or onsite include a 50 Acre University for JRE Group of Institutes- Greater Noida, a large Commercial Complex in Gurgaon, comprising of 150m high office towers aims to redefine the morphology of Tall buildings in Gurgaon, a 40 acre Luxury Eco-Resort in the backwaters of Kerala, a master plan for 1000-acre Beachfront Township, Gujarat and a 25 Acre Resort for The Lalit Group, Dehradun etc. This profile is a collection of a few selected works of Morphogenesis. The documented projects range across varied typologies, climate and scale (from the earliest works to the most recent ones) demonstrating the design philosophy of Morphogenesis, where every project is examined from first principles; consistently dispelling preconceived notions of typology, identity, and imageability. Morphogenesis believes that every project should establish itself as a benchmark for innovative building design while successfully dispelling the myth that Green design entails higher cost.

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77/32 ubc Apollo Tyres Corporate Office apo Art House prs Asian Roots Spa aspa Atlanta Citi bet Aurora tvh Avenue 114 vsr Casa Mosoon nrn Centra Mall cml Chettinad Health City Auditorium chc Chhat Puja Ghats, Yamuna cpg City Centre ccr Commercial Development cdv Crossing Republik School crs Delhi Art Gallery dag Delhi Nullahs dns DS Group Factory & Offices dsg GYS Vision gys Harley Davidson Corporate Office hdn House 1 srs House 2 n85 House 3 rkr India Glycols Corporate Office igl India Post ipt Integrated Campus for IILM iilm ITC Park Boulevard (Fortune) ipb Jindal Pipes Corporate Office jco Jindal Stainless Corporate Office jsl JRE Group of Institutions edp Jubilant R&D Centres jrd Maker Maxity mmx Marble Arch ugh National Police Memorial npm Offices psg Pearl Academy of Fashion paf Presidential Towers rlh PVR Forum pvr Rajaswa Bhawan rjb Residency rsd Sequel uch Siolim Villas slm Soaltee Crowne Plaza scp Swabhumi Cultural Complex scc Taxashila Hotel & Cultural Complex thc The Amarnath Pilgrimage tap The Bristol -Executive Tower bst The British School tbs The Grand gvk The Lalit lri The Metropolitan mgf The Nira nrk The Renaissance Township sch The Uttorayon Township bah The Woodside wds Umaid Bhawan Palace Foothills ubf Verandas vnd YWCA Institute & Hostel ywca

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At Morphogenesis, we have three main guiding principles in the way we work, aimed at delivering the best to all our clients. We are charged of a pursuit of excellence in design, through a methodology of professional rigour, informed by a belief in sustainability. Excellence in design is achieved through constant innovation by a continuous process of design appraisal of our own work at every stage. Collaboratively and objectively done, this provides the opportunity to question and invent new paradigms and schema in design. Clients and their team are an important part of the design process and we believe that a great design emerges only with an exchange of ideas. We are also actively involved in building a global discourse on design through education, associations and publications which keeps us in the forefront of the rapidly changing world, and allows us to give our work its rightful place in the global scenario. The entire process of design excellence is managed through a multi-disciplinary team with research, visualisation, and design professionals who work in developing diverse ideas, undertaking new design methodologies, assessing new materials and exploring new technology/construction processes. This team works laterally through all key project stages to enhance its design quality. Professional rigour in practice is aimed at achieving high levels of quality and efficiency in our work. We follow a rigourous quality control process which assesses the completeness and technical correctness of our documentation at every stage. This ensures that complete and correct documentation is released much in advance of the construction sequence enabling effective time, cost and quality control on building sites. Project scheduling forms a key factor in our internal processes and a stringent check is kept on the time allocated and spent at each stage. Flexible resource allocation allows us to achieve targets adhering to project schedules. Efficiency tracking through benchmarking for time allows us to constantly refine our schedules, to anticipate possible issues and achieve more within the given time frames. We are also conscious of our legal responsibilities and diligently analyse applicable codes, regulations and laws pertaining to each project. Professional rigour is achieved through large project groups in our studio which have multiple expertise and wideranging experience. Architects in each group bring together their differing skills to each project. All projects are delivered in well defined packages after effective coordination with all external agencies such as other sub-consultants, project and construction managers, vendors, clientsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; representatives etc. Before delivery, each construction stage package is again assessed and verified by a peer group of project heads to maintain quality and completeness. Our belief in sustainability shapes all our projects. It is not treated as a layer of applied technology on building systems but forms the very basis of our design. Our endeavour is to design in a manner that reduces consumption of resources and energy. We are committed to principles of passive design and believe that thorough analysis can simulate and predict performance of all buildings. We use the latest analytical and simulation software to achieve these goals. At the minimum, we ensure GRIHA compliance on all projects irrespective of their registration for certification. Almost all the architects in our office are trained and accredited professionals in the field of environmental sustainability and green design making this an ingrained sensibility of our work. Our projects are assessed for environmental compliance internally at all stages. We also offer environmental design consultancy as a separate service to our clients if required. morphogenesis. | the way we work

O f f i c e s

India Glycols Corporate Office, Noida

Client: India Glycols Ltd. Year of Completion: 2009 Built-up Area: 3,91,700 sq ft Climate: Composite

o 023 | igl

The office design for the corporate office for India Glycols embodies the issues concerning the workplace today, and explores the paradigm of the office space as a social activity. Sited in a non-contextual suburban area of Delhi, the setting led to the development of an introverted scheme that would address environmental and socio-economic issues from first principles. Conceived as a solid perimeter scheme with a more fluid interior, the morphology blurs the interface between the inside and outside. The site surroundings and context along with an optimum enclosed square volume enabled a built form with minimum exposed surface area. The built form configured of 8m wide office bays optimizes the natural day lighting and helps to define the programmatic requirements of the office. A stacking system is used to generate a variety of open spaces; courtyards, verandahs, terraces, green roofs etc. that help to structure the office spaces. A central spine traversing the built volume serves as the common activity zone, with other departments branching out. Energy Consciousness dictates the internal spatial and programmatic composition through a series of open and semi-open spaces. Instead of an overlay of an environmental layer, Passive design techniques are employed throughout the scheme and take into consideration the importance and relevance of energy conscious design within the modern work culture. Solar exclusion is achieved by means of a solid external perimeter, which only permits diffused daylight into the office environs. The reliance on artificial Lighting is substantially reduced as courtyards are created to increase natural light levels on the floor plates. The courtyards help to keep the solar ingress out and control the temperatures of a multitude of spaces throughout the building while also allowing for sufficient day lighting into the workspaces. External Spaces are tempered using courtyards and terrace gardens that facilitate thermal insulation. Shaded Outer faรงade with air cavity construction, very small slit windows on the outside, courtyards with microclimate controls (shading and mist gardens, water bodies and plantations) all aid in reducing the solar ingress. Water bodies aid in evaporative cooling thereby reducing dependence on artificial means of cooling and also create a microcosm of the civic environment rich with the potential for social transactions. Rhythmic articulation of volumes and spaces generates a scheme that is a radical departure from the structured differentiated spaces of the traditional office and the monotony of the open plan halls that have dominated office planning.

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form development | morphology Form Development: Iconic Tower

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GYS Vision, Gurgaon

Client: Dignity Buildcon Pvt. Ltd. Year of Completion: 2012 Built-up Area: 15,88,000 sq ft | 10 acres Climate: Composite

o 018 | gys

The design brief called for a high rise, commercial development comprising of three high-rise corporate office towers, in one of the prime suburbs of New Delhi, Gurgaon. Gurgaon, being the hub of emergent urbanism in India influences the design intervention, where built form moves away from the typical office typology, aiming to provide an alternative with interweaving open social spaces, and closed workspaces. The scheme was developed as a response to reinterpret the typical Indian office typology as spaces being laid out horizontally on the ground. This was achieved by stacking the office module vertically, in order to free up the ground to help the user engage with the environment. It aims to provide an alternative with interweaving open social spaces, and closed workspaces. Each office floor plate, approximately 1200 sq m in area, has a dedicated doubleheight terrace measuring approximately 100 sq m. The towers work on a three-floor low rise office typology that is stacked vertically to achieve first, a highly sculptural form and second, a variety of spaces in the form of terraces. As the design was developed, it was decided to have one Iconic Tower and 2 identical ones in order to endow the scheme with an identity. The lower ground floor acts as a hub that activates the landscape area with food courts and convention center. The two Identical Towers are placed on a pure orientation with the core facing the harsh sun of the south-west, where as the iconic tower is placed in a manner that it is relatively shaded by the tower to its south. The design intent focuses on seamless integration of the towers with the landscape/ activity below. What makes the design of this high office tower unique is the fact that each office floor plate, approximately 1200 sq m in area, has a dedicated double-height terrace measuring approximately 100 sq m. To address the environmental issues that concern the contemporary office, orientation is optimized in the creation of built volumes. The façade strategy for both the identical towers focuses on reducing the solar gain while providing maximum views from the office floors. The core is wrapped with a mesh that allows for the provision of multiple openings in the services area maximizing the daylight to achieve maximum daylight “ingress” in these areas.

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form development | identical tower Form Development: Iconic Tower morphogenesis. | residential 25

form development | iconic tower

DS Group Factory & Offices, Noida

Client: Dharampal Satyapal Ltd. Year of Completion: 2012 Built-up Area: 9,13,000 sq ft | 16 acres Climate: Composite

The Factory and Office complex takes a holistic approach to architectural design by integrating energy conservation, occupant participation and economic performance as part of the building life-cycle to make it truly sustainable. The proactive approach to sustainable design demonstrated in this project is radical in the modern Indian context especially in the way it blurs time-honoured distinctions between design and the post-design phase. A green roofscape composed of staggered undulating berms dominates the site - nothing is more welcoming than lush greenery in the harsh climate of the plains of north India. The Office complex uses environmental design to temper extreme climate changes prevalent in the region. The low built-up requirement resulted in a built form and landscape shaped by laminar flow. The design of the complex is a marriage of traditional berming techniques and contemporary technology to achieve sustainability. The design transcends the established program by looking at how environmental design can be demonstrative in terms of performance, production, and community building. Design and construction nodes draw from both traditional techniques and latest energy conscious technologies. Building orientation, wind tunneling effect, solar radiation; self-shading devices- all contribute to a cohesive attempt to minimize dependence on external, artificial sources of energy. Bio-walls are a source of generating captive oxygen and berming the structure provides insulation and thermal efficiency. The outcome of the efficient sustainable practices incorporated in the design and use of traditional space-organizing methods (courtyards) with insulated shell techniques results in lower mechanical and electrical loads and subsequently in lower operational costs. The combination of sustainable design features and the built form transforms the program brief into architecture that attempts to touch the earth lightly while almost disappearing in the earth. The slivers of built and unbuilt earth lend a unique character to the complex, where the act of building is in service to the larger and pressing goals of sustainable development.

o 017 | dsg

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Apollo Tyres Corporate Office, Gurgaon

Client: Apollo Tyres Ltd. Year of Completion: 2000 Built-up Area: 96,800 sq ft Climate: Composite

o 002 | apo

The corporate headquarters of the Apollo Tyres Group addresses issues central to the rapidly evolving Indian workplace. By taking into consideration the global context of the workplace, requirements of flexibility and adaptability and the incorporation of passive environmental strategies to provide both occupant comfort and efficient infrastructure, Apollo House has become an exemplar for the corporate workspace in India today. The designs conceptual strength comes from the spatial and programmatic striation which creates overlaps between the exterior and the interior and between the various programmatic requirements creating a vibrant work environment. The morphology blurs the interface between the inside and the outside within the site, while resisting the public gaze. The workplace should manifest itself. The underlying principle was that â&#x20AC;&#x153;the workplace should manifest itself as a more flexible and integral part of our life rather than a separate entity of specific hours of confinementâ&#x20AC;?. The design of the Apollo Tyres Corporate Office takes into consideration the importance and relevance of energy conscious design within the modern work culture. The skin of the building comprises of two sets of planes â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a solid set of planes whose primary purpose is to shade the set of glass planes. This ensures that despite the substantial amount of glass being used, solar ingress is only limited to the winter months when air-conditioning system is not required. The reliance on artificial lighting is also substantially reduced as courtyards are used to increase natural light levels on the floor plates. Finally a series of terrace gardens provide a high level of thermal insulation. The design is a radical departure from structured differentiated spaces of the traditional office and the monotony of open plan halls that have dominated office planning. Here the continuous re-articulation of space created by a movement spine traversing the programmatic striations and the linear strips running SE-NW and are grafted along the entire site. The major programmatic categories are divided into the presentation, the processor, the nature zone, the work zone, social zone, recreation zone, transaction zone, chance event zone, instructional zone etc. these programmatic zones are then accommodated into parallel striations. This technique provides maximum interface between each striation, leading to higher permeability and interface in between the programs.

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section | environmental strategy

site plan | landscape

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Jindal Stainless Corporate Office, Gurgaon

Client: Jindal Stainless Ltd. Year of Completion: 2013 Built-up Area: 92,500 sq ft Climate: Composite

o 028 | jsl

A synthesis of tradition and modernity, the design of a six-storey office building for one of the largest steel manufacturers in India invokes the “navagraha mandala”, a nine-square cosmograph that inscribes a man in a yogic pose in almost Vitruvian fashion. The sacred grid is extruded to a platonic cube, which is subsequently morphed to create an intricate composition of joints and planes. The office floor plates are stacked around a central sky-lit courtyard. Instead of the ubiquitous core and shell structure with peripheral offices, a central atrium allows for a sense of openness and visual connectivity between floors and a greater sense of community within the office. The loft-like office spaces can be adapted to suit the changing program. An off-center oval conference room is connected via bridges from the upper levels. In contrast to the interior hard steel core and structure, a porous skin crafted from terracotta forms the outer layer. The terracotta skin is also the appropriate environmental response in a region where a variety of materials including clay and cane have been traditionally used to screen buildings from the sun. The juxtaposition of materials such as clay, a humble material used for building in the rural hinterland, with steel with its mythic status in nation-building and low-e glass sandwiched between the two, allows opportunities for tectonic and semiotic layering. The terracotta horizontals respond to the sun azimuth and reduce solar exposure. Like Paul Rudolph’s loft in New York, the reflectivity of stainless steel in the interiors adds a sense of ethereal futurism to this project with traces of the premodern mandala. Customized stainless steel is celebrated in the internal structure and fixtures as well as abstract steel trees, designed in collaboration with sculptor Alex Davis, that appear as surreal additions to the landscape.

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form development: plan

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morphology development

Harley Davidson Corporate Office, Gurgaon

Client: Harley Davidson India Year of Completion: 2010 Built-up Area: 7,000 sq ft Climate: Composite

o 019 | hdn

Harley Davidsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s foray into the Indian market necessitated the establishment of a marked presence of the brand which would imbibe individuality and create an office that complements the altering Indian work culture. The office is located in Indiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Millenium City, Gurgaon; being the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s industrial and financial centre, it was an ideal setting for the launch of the first Harley Davidson office in India. The preliminary objective was to create an indigenous space using traditional materials to customize and personalize the office in a way that it blends into the Indian context. The workplace was intended to be more than a corporate office; as a space that would provide for multiple space utilization for various activities such as events, workshops, and parties. A training centre for the maintenance of the Harley Davidson Bikes was to be included to integrate the adventurous ethic with the working environment. In order to create an interactive working atmosphere, the office space was conceived to be a single, unified, significant space with compact enclosures that would open up and transform into gathering spaces. The overall design intent has been kept minimalistic and contemporary, to focus on the blend of the brand identity and the work ethos. The reception is the main highlight of the entire office space with an installation of a tank wall equipped with various Harley Davidson fuel tanks, painted by special artists. To add an informal nature to the space, lounge seating is accommodated. In addition to this, a graphic wall with inscriptions of the notions and ideologies of biking and adventure run along the reception area and along the corridor. The wall has been fitted with black lacquer modules with bookshelves for the informal casual beat within the official environment, making it employee-friendly. A few Harley Davidson bikes are set up on display along the circulation space to complete the ambience to augment the office space with the notion of adventure. Perforated jaalis, a traditional Indian embellishment, derived from the abstraction of the Harley Davidson shield, are used to segregate the multiplicity of the nature of the office spaces and creating a transparent vista which also enables an open workspace where privacy is not a major concern.Most of the detailing in design, both minute and large, has been inspired from motorcycles and biking. The handles for the toilet doors are the actual handles of the Harley Davidson bikes, the table in the pantry space has a set of supports that resemble the side stands of a bike, and the rear view mirrors of a motorcycle are exploited for signage.

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Form Development: Iconic Tower

Jindal Pipes Corporate Office, Gurgaon

Client: Jindal Pipes Year of Completion: 2007 Built-up Area: 45,000 sq ft Climate: Composite

o 027 | jco

The project entailed taking a completed building and designing the interiors for it with obvious constraints imposed on the interior architecture as the building design was done independently and with little provision for the intended and eventual use of the building. Although this was a huge challenge, but it also made the design process immensely interesting. The building had a large out of scale central open space designed with little or no consideration of the obvious heat gain issues throughout the building. The start point of the design was to try and temper this large central space and make into a central hub of activity. The central courtyard has a series of multi level air-conditioned terraces and event spaces. Since the brief specified more than fifty percent of the office spaces to be of a non-workstation format, a street typology was employed to create spaces which look into each other both in plan and in section. The west face of the building has been given a combination of Balinese gardens along with cavity wall construction which buffer the offices on that face from direct heat gain. The building has considerably deep office floor plates. To moderate the scale of these in proportion to the work areas a central art/sculpture gallery has been sandwiched in between creating inner and outer layers of offices. Given the sheer scale of the building, the design of the spaces within has been approached with almost a product design attitude. The resultant is the creation of various individual entities placed within a large volume with a degree of coherence by way of the treatment of these spaces. A ceremonial symmetrical landscape pattern was evolved to compliment the monolithic building to take the emphasis off the enormous scale of the spaces. The unusual forty-five degree cant of the building created unruly spaces which have been dealt with by inserting shell like structures into the building camouflaging and integrating scores of large and otherwise unworkable triangular spaces.Other than the various energy and environmental features employed in the interior design, the building as a showcase of artworks of young artists promoted by the company becomes apparent from the lobby onwards with various areas displaying these works and besides its obvious function of a modern day office, it works as an art gallery adaptable to most forms of contemporary expression.

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Commercial

77/32, Gurgaon

Client: Uppals Housing Year of Completion: 2009 Built-up Area: 94,000 sq ft Climate: Composite

c 001 | ubc

Located in Gurgaon, the office hub in the suburbs of New Delhi, the building moves away from the typical office typology, providing an alternative with interweaving open social spaces, and closed workspaces. The design brief specified 50,000 sq ft of pre-fitted, rentable office spaces for a range of clients. The design merges the programmatic requirements of a business centre with the environmental concerns that are of critical importance in todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s context. The design is envisaged with two types of informal spaces- one at the public level and another at the individual office level. The Ground Floor is designed to be a recreational, informal meeting space which defines the entrance as well. A passive cooling strategy is adopted to create a modified environment which is non- airconditioned. This is done through the creation of water bodies, and allowing for built mass only on two sides and the remaining two sides are left open to allow for wind movement. A cafĂŠ is designed as a part of the recreation zone. Each individual office has been provided with a terrace garden which becomes its private, informal breakout zone. To address the environmental issues that concern the contemporary office, orientation is optimized in the creation of built volumes. A passive cooling strategy is adopted to create a modified environment which is non- air-conditioned. This is done through the creation of water bodies, and allowing for built mass only on two sides and the remaining two sides are left open to allow for wind movement. The East and West sun are blocked off with the help of solid stonewalls that act as a thermal buffer. The two long sides: North and South are provided with glazing and punctures respectively. Each floor plate is designed to be 15m wide to allow for daylight penetration. The use of post-tensioned beams allows for the creation of column-free spaces, which permits maximum flexibility within the office space. 100% Rainwater harvesting is achieved across the site and all wastewater gets recycled and reused. Each floor has two separate offices and a heat recovery wheel re-uses the exhausted air-conditioned air to pre-cool the fresh air supplied to the offices. The amalgamation of design principles and environmental imperatives creates a building which responds to its setting and program in a visually aesthetic manner. The outward appearance lends character to the urban fabric through its massive stone walls and punctured facades, all done by using natural materials such as wood and stone.

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floor plans: morphology development

City Centre, Siliguri

Client: Ambuja Realty Development Ltd. Year of Completion: 2011 Built-up Area: 11,86,000 sq ft | 10 acres Climate: Wet

c 012 | ccr

Located at the entrance of the 400-acre Uttorayon Township, the city centre attempts to create a much-needed, organized commercial district for the city of Siliguri. It is positioned as an interface between the township and the city that envisages a new destination for the local community and emerges as an urban landscape in between the offices and commercial components of the master plan. This family entertainment centre is a judicious mix of retail, F&B outlets, entertainment areas; childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s play areas and a large 4-screen multiplex. The structure sits on a large podium with multiple entranceways allowing easy circulation for the people coming in. The visibility to all retail segments has been enhanced by the use of a large central atrium space which also serves as a multi-function arena for other associated activities. Vertical circulation is organized with escalators enhancing accessibility to all levels of the centre. The centre consists of retail spaces in diverse sizes ranging from small kiosks to a large hypermarket interspersed with various restaurants and cafes as breakout spaces. Apart from these, there is also a dedicated space enclosing a large food court area. Open leisure areas have been attached to these spaces with other entertainment zones providing video gaming, a bowling alley, and other indoor adventures. The development is complete with a large modern 4-screen multiplex cinema. There is a unique artistic theme that is manifest in the various spaces of the mall in the form of sculpted artworks on the inner and outer faĂ§ade of the building. The large atrium space forms the hub of the development with spines running across on one side and the courtyards on the other. Each floor has been provided with break-out spaces in the form of landscaped terraces. The buildings have been so designed that the largeness of the program never assumes daunting proportions. In keeping with the traditional Indian schema of high streets and porous spaces, the centre breaks down into a complex of well scaled structures offering maximum interface to the users.

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Commercial Development, Gurgaon

Client: Undisclosed Year of Completion: 2013 Built-up Area: 10.5 Acres Climate: Composite

c 013 | cdv

The design brief called for a mixed-use, commercial development comprising of a high-rise corporate office tower, a retail component in the form of a mall with rooftop public square and commercial office buildings in Gurgaon. The high-rise corporate office towers form the primary focus of this urban design scheme, along with an emphasis on the creation of a variety of experiential spaces within a landscaped public realm. While the tower is flanked by the low rise mall on one side, the commercial office buildings are designed to form a continuous back drop to the sky scraper. The form of the sky scraper was generated from a computer optimization program, where the primary design inputs/generators were an optimal floor plate size that is suitable for office usage, an appropriate ratio and proportion between the dimensions of the floor plan and the total height of the building and most importantly, the need for break out spaces/terraces for each floor. What makes the design of this high office tower special is the fact that each office floor plate approximately 1200 sqm in area has a dedicated double height terrace measuring approximately 100 sqm. The position of these terraces varies on each floor, creating complex visual dynamics in the built volume. The design intent for the office buildings is to ensure that most office spaces have adjoining external terraces. The office buildings, forming the east and south edges to the scheme, have been raised off the ground and the footprint is sunken, to create a large, sheltered area at the base that flows into the central landscape of the site. It is at this sunken level that the public facilities of the offices are proposed, with cafes tucked underneath. Special emphasis is on the elevations of the office buildings, such that they truly form the intended backdrop to the skyscraper in focus. The mall building at the base of the tower comprises of retail and recreational facilities, including an art gallery and other cultural facilities such as exclusive performance theaters, premiere class cinemas etc. The roof of the mall is designed as a large, open, public square, accessible via a wide pedestrian ramp, which folds up from the landscaped base and wraps around the edges of the mall. This landscaped ramp and rooftop form together form remarkable public spaces which can be utilized independently of the mall and add to the vast central landscaped area that is contained by the buildings.

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site section | programming for form development

Define Variables Dim outputList As New List(Of Integer) Dim counter As Integer Dim i As Integer Dim arraytest As New List(Of Integer) Dim floor As Integer Dim row As Integer Dim col As Integer Dim floorIndex As Integer Dim rowIndex As Integer Dim colIndex As Integer

rowIndex = rowSize - 1 colIndex = colSize - 1 floorIndex = floorSize - 1 ‘‘Create a 3dimensional array for the building coordinates For floor = 0 To floorIndex For row = 0 To rowIndex For col = 0 To rowIndex boxesArray(row, col, floor) = 1 Next

For floor = 1 To floorIndex ‘Create random starting position of terrace Do RndRow = R.Next(0, rowSize) RndCol = R.Next(0, colSize) Loop Until boxesArray(RndRow, RndCol, floor) = 1 And boxesArray(RndRow, RndCol, floor - 1) = 1 ‘Add adjacent terraces to reach total terrace size For i = 1 To rowIndex If floor < floorIndex Then boxesArray(RndRow, RndCol, floor) = 0

Centramall, Chandigarh

Client: Uppal Housing Ltd. Year of Completion: 2008 Built-up Area: 1,45,600 sq ft Climate: Composite

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Chandigarh is a city with a high degree of urbanization where commercial areas are concentrated in specifically designated sectors. Hence, a need for developing other commercial centers within the city arises. The Centramall is located in the Industrial Sector and a high accessibility area with excellent linkages from the airport, railway station and the residential and institutional areas of the city. The design intent for the mall has two predominant aspects viz. the socio-cultural aspect and the Environmental strategy. The approach has been to reverse the traditional box-type morphology for malls by opening up the Box instead, towards the site context and surroundings. The built form enclosure is straight-off the road and the design approach is directed towards providing a High Street nature to the mall. An Atrium along the premium road access helps to attain the public disposition, whilst maintaining the mall typology. The retail shops and the entertainment block face the atrium and its transparent nature allows visibility of all the shops from the road. The mall is equipped with state-of-the-art escalators allowing vertical movement and pedestrian linkages within the mall. There are two levels of basement with adequate parking and centralized building services. The Building is oriented along North-South to optimize the built form orientation with glazing predominantly restricted to the North side. The glazing facilitates natural light into the public areas, which reduces electrical energy consumption. A 100 mm separation is provided between the glass faรงade and the concrete block to serve as a heat insulator; the glass is low e-coated which further reduces the heat gain. Each auditorium is provided with pre-cooling air by retrieving cooling energy from the exhaust air that further reduces the energy consumption. To reduce the water demand, the project relies on 100% rainwater recharge and re-uses the collected rainwater which after filtration is fed back into the domestic tank. A Dedicated sewage treatment plant is provided to treat the waste water and re-use it for flushing water, gardening and air-conditioning/ cooling tower purposes. The structure is 100% earthquake resistant and the use of light weight concrete blocks in place of conventional bricks maximizes sound insulation reducing the overall dead load on the structure. All the front columns are cast in seamless MS Pipes to enhance the structural strength and the aesthetic value of the structure.

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Offices, Gurgaon

Client: PASCO (Robin IT Solutions Pvt. Ltd.) Year of Completion: 2010 Built-up Area: 23,600 sq ft Climate: Composite

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The office building is located in the suburban region of NCR, Gurgaon covering about 24,000 sq ft of built up area. The design for the building seeks to establish a flexible space planning system with minimum structural columns offering greatly improved levels of spatial planning and structural efficiency. A Flat Slab Structure is designed to enable a clear height of 3.3m in the Office Spaces. The spatial planning conceives a Landscaped Stilted Ground Floor with water bodies and informal seating functioning as spill out spaces for the office. Due to the exceptionally long frontage of one of the site dimensions, a key concern was to ensure the sanctity of the singularity of the plot, which would impart it with an individual visual and spatial identity. This entrance is further highlighted with the use of the primary design feature, the helical curtain wall which lends high visibility and profile and establishes a consistent spatial relationship with the entrance through its riveting form. The Front faรงade design enables to cut-down the West Sun with Glass Louvers and is hence High Performance and Energy Efficient. The Reflective Double Glass on the Side Elevations helps to reduce the amount of heat entering the Building. The landscaped area has floating water bodies in black and white granite. Bamboo screen planters are used to visually demarcate this landscaped space for multiple uses. Seating areas are provided for people to use this space as a break out area. An additional sculpted staircase in concrete is designed as a part of the landscape. Within the various site constraints, a basement parking was not found to be feasible, and surface parking was hence incorporated. The structure is Earth Quake resistant with 100% Power backup. Materiality is simple with Greek thaussus marble Flooring in the Lobby areas and Reception, black and grey flamed granite etc.

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Maker Maxity, Mumbai

Client: Indian Film Combine Pvt. Ltd Year of Completion: 2008 Built-up Area: 21,72,256 sq ft | 20 acres Climate: Warm-Humid

Maker Towne, Mumbai

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The project is planned as a large campus style development with around 2 million square feet of area for Offices, Malls/Entertainment and Hotels/ Service apartments and Condominiums. The site is located in a premium area of Mumbai- Bandra Kurla complex with the Mithi River behind it and surrounded by the Mahim creek. The site was analyzed for high flood levels in the area, especially since it was close to the riverbed to negate the effects of flooding. The functional zoning of the design scheme is based on the Relationship between the office, mall and hotel, with the hotel being central to both. Proximity to the mall adds to the experience of both the office and hotel-goers and makes for a well integrated mixed use scheme. The site planning is not based on developing individual plots but developing the scheme as a whole; the buildings are placed over a landscape that is closely interlinked with the basement over the entire site. Various activities from the hotel and the offices spill over into the mall area, enlivening it at all times of the day. The offices open up into open work areas, reading spaces, gardens and terraces, so that the landscape is well integrated with the built. The workspace thus, becomes a part of the open public realm. The Hotel is placed on the site so as to accentuate the available views and most rooms open up to the creek and river behind. A promenade at the front of the site connects all three functions whilst also giving the scheme a landmark identity. Boulevards between functions encourage a pedestrian friendly mixed use development. The landscape is hence interwoven with the built form to generate interaction within the formal, functional uses of the design brief. Mumbai as a city relies completely on public transport with little dependency on private modes of transport. Therefore, the design proposal encourages the creation of a pedestrian friendly environment and no-car zone. This helps to craft plazas and squares as an integral part of the landscape, while simultaneously responding to the context of the mangrove, the river and the creek and helps to create a mixed use community. The mall takes an international building type and reinterprets it by referencing the traditional bazaars of Indian cities. By recreating the vibrant feel of the bazaar, the mall has the potential for reestablishing a sense of urban life.

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The Metropolitan, Gurgaon

Client: MGF Year of Completion: 2003 Built-up Area: 5,62,900 sq ft Climate: Composite

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The Metropolitan is the first large format enclosed mall in north India was an opportunity to create a landmark designed as a large local attractor catering to the demands of the rapidly emerging township in Gurgaon. It was considered essential to incorporate an Indian essence and yet respond to the technological, functional and commercial demands. The design program which included a multiplex and a food court in addition to the retail was visualized as an urban activity center analogous to the role of the bazaar in a traditional city. The entrance to the mall is designed to allow both a vehicular drop off as well as to give clear access to pedestrians. A large forecourt, landscaped and paved in granite, leads pedestrians into the mall. This forecourt is designed to be a space for events, to recreate traditional street culture and to be an urban meeting space. The forecourt leads on through a frameless glazed wall into the internal space of the mall. This allows the connection between the exterior event space and the atrium to be visually and functionally maintained and the transition to occur imperceptibly. The atrium space, designed as a protected and inviting space, provides the potential for a re-establishment of street culture; responsive to transformation, festivals, and seasons, and creating a random mosaic of episodes romantically evocative of the bazaar. The vaulted atrium roof, clad in translucent panels floods the space with a cool white light while providing protection from the sun. The chosen materials for the interior of the mall are low maintenance, those least susceptible to weathering and vandalism, while lending the mall the visual appeal of an international facility. Stainless Steel used in various ways, for cladding, railings and for atrium furniture is an important unifying visual feature of the interior space. Stainless steel and timber benches provide clusters of seating through the atrium. The escalators clad in steel and lit with a cool blue light are the dramatic center piece of the atrium. The Metropolitan takes an international building type and reinterprets it by referencing the traditional bazaars of Indian cities. By recreating the vibrant feel of the bazaar the mall has the potential for reestablishing a sense of urban life.

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PVR Forum, Bangalore

Client: PVR Ltd. Year of Completion: 2004 Built-up Area: 90,000 sq ft Climate: Warm-Humid

As the largest multiplexes in India, the PVR Bangalore comprises of eleven screens, the PVR at the FORUM showcases a variety of cinematic and hospitality spaces. The challenge was to design 3 types of cinemas (the star class, gold class and Europa) and these associated lounges, foyers, access foyers and utilities in different enough ways for them to stand apart from each other while still maintaining them as parts of a whole. The manifestations are different but ideology is overriding. A vast atrium was inherited with the building, which was flooded with light from a skylight; both these design features are anti-thesis of conventional cinema design. The design solution was to create a layered sequencing in terms of light quality. A buffer along both sides was created which provided sequential exposure and created the opportunity to step down light gradually and step up the colour saturation accordingly. Colour Saturation has been used as a strategy to enhance the swank technicolour imaging and movie information systems that are provided in the cinema space. This is amply displayed in red and gold intensity of Gold class to the aqua of Europa Lounge, and purple or Star Class. The experience of movie going has been enhanced by the Europa and Gold Class lounges which are complete nightclub environments in themselves. These were also especially designed with the idea of private viewings and launches.

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Avenue 114, Gurgaon

Client: V Square Year of Completion: 2013 Built-up Area: 3,77,092 sq ft Climate: Composite

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Situated on a triangular site on the Delhi - Gurgaon Border within close proximity to the Airport, the design for 114 Avenue presents an opportunity to generate a mixed-use scheme planned for offices, retail and serviced apartments. The intent is to arrange a series of blocks that direct a creative interaction between the buildings and the people, in order to enhance spatial and visual permeability across the site. The idea is to create a network of routes that converge on a central plaza at the heart of the site. The site is at a prominent corner edge, which adds to the identity of the site giving it an urban character. Various site conditions help to derive the form to generate a triangular band that is fragmented to provide access to the central spaces, whilst adding porosity to the form. Three main building blocks are arranged around the central plaza in the form of three strips, consisting of retail, offices and serviced apartments. The serviced apartments and the offices are placed on the site to capitalize on the views such as that of the neighboring Najafgarh drain, which is in close proximity. Apart from these prime components, a three floor deep basement plan has been designed to equip a large parking facility and other general service areas. A hypermarket is located on a raised plaza on the lower ground level, while, the office and the apartment floors act as a continuous iconic mass emphasizing the design of the entire built volume. The retail block is placed around the triangle on the site with the main entrance and core spaces that merge with the central green landscaped plaza. Restaurants and cafĂŠs rest between the serviced apartments and offices on the upper floors, catering to their requirements of public amenities, hence forming a higher built volume in contrast to the urban scheme. Environmental Strategy is adopted to allow for the central open plaza to be shaded from the scorching summer sun, hence propagating its usability. Pedestrian and vehicular movements are segregated to ensure a people friendly space. All the common areas are designed to be in the form of open spaces with dedicated terrace gardens on the second floor acting as spill over spaces for restaurants and as provisional retreats for offices. However, each block, in spite of being a continuous mass, has been treated independently, with separate lobbies and entrance areas congregating on to the centre of the site. The design pays close attention to communal access to landscape greens and terrace gardens from all the floors to generate a scenic panorama. A structural gateway demarcates the entrance to the development and the intent is to narrate a built volume that complements the urban scheme.

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Residential

Marble Arch, Chandigarh

Client: Uppal Group Housing Year of Completion: 2010 Built-up Area: 4,30,000 sq ft Climate: Composite

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Marble Arch is a housing development located in Chandigarh on a 5.4 acre site along the periphery of the city. The projectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s objective is to develop a new prototype for housing in Chandigarh as an entity to address issues of liveability, spatial configuration, environmental and social issues, while shifting away from the archetypal morphology of high specification residential modules and equipment crammed into an undersized apartment. The clients brief called for the generation of maximum builtup area for residential accommodation within the imposed controls and yet construct a favorable communal environment. The spatial planning is generated by creating a pedestrian field for the apartments in the centre of the site by isolating all vehicular movement to the periphery. The pedestrian field is then laid out with strips of defined functions of residential facilities, services, and recreation areas flowing from the east to the west, which allows all apartments to be developed in alignment with optimum north-south orientation to allow for natural daylight and ventilation. The built volumes of the residential strips are sculpted with a play of volumes to provide terraces/ open areas at all levels and generate an interface with the open areas. The service areas of all apartments are kept along the service strip which gets broken up into service courtyards. As per the development control norms, Basement Parking is contained within the building periphery, dictating the configuration of the development in the form of linear strips. The development has been configured as a set of 9 blocks of 5 storeys each with 4 apartments to a level with service courtyards straddled as buffers within- 168 units which are a combination of 3/ 4 bedroom apartments, and penthouses on the top floors. Along with these dwelling units, ancillary facilities like a health club, gymnasium, amphitheatre, swimming pool, tot lots, basketball court, and social activity spaces are provided within the development.Each block within the development has an atrium lobby to provide a sense of community. Given the fact that this is a low-rise development, the opportunity to provide terraces on each level to be able to establish a relationship with the ground level has been fully utilized. A unique Scale is achieved with regards to contemporary housing in Chandigarh which establishes a crucial relationship between heights, the distance between any 2 blocks and the landscape. The design employs the use of grids being superimposed on the entire scheme both in the case of buildings, where it gets subdivided to generate spaces within the apartments as well as onto the landscape by way of pedestrian linkages and green areas.

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Aurora, Coimbatore

Client: True Value Homes India Pvt. Ltd. Year of Completion: 2012 Built-up Area: 24,75,000 sq ft | 17.5 acres Climate: Temperate

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The proposed residential development is a part of the TVH Kovai centre consisting of high-rise residential towers, a shopping mall and villas. The site is located on the main Trichy highway, approximately 6 kms away from the Coimbatore airport. Two entry and exit points has been provided for the housing site for easy accessibility; one Main entry from the secondary road running along the villa site and other from the NH-67 (Trichy-Coimbatore highway). The Site planning strategy leads to the placement of towers in a manner that creates green pockets in lieu of a consolidated green which helps in avoiding the towers overlooking into each other. Each cluster is defined by a central core around which the 4 units are located, each of which has an individual balcony. Environmental analysis help to define The Placement of the Parks, Play areas and Recreational areas is done as per Time of Use, function and shade requirement. Various environmental design Parameters informed the design of the housing development; Openable Windows and jaalis take care of Natural Ventilation where as Larger fenestrations and a Glazed Faรงade optimize the Natural Lighting. Faรงade design was informed by factors such as natural lighting, sun shading, natural ventilation and rain protection. A basic frame in Concrete was devised to highlight the balconies and a parapet in wood/ steel was then formed around the balcony. These two layers were then combined to form a single entity. A third layer was added in the form of colured walls (3 colours of the same palette) to add drama to the faรงade and highlight the sub frame. Over hangs are provided for the balconies wherever required as per the tower orientation on the site. Sufficient sun shading is provided through chajjas and overhangs on the north and south faรงade to achieve optimum comfortable temperatures. The east face is exposed only to early sun and almost in shade through out the year, being early sun is welcome sun, hence no shading devices are required on this face. A high end, low-rise residential villa complex is planned as three predominant rows of plots, consisting of forty plots. The premise of this symmetrical planning strategy is to create the ideal conditions for community interaction and living.

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Verandas, Gurgaon

Client: Well Worth Project Developers Pvt. Ltd. (SALCON) Year of Completion: 2012 Built-up Area: 11,00,000 sq ft | 9 acres Climate: Composite

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‘The Verandas’ is a luxury housing project in Gurgaon, the upcoming hub of all commercial and residential development in suburban NCR. The brief commissioned a programme based on the adaptation of ‘luxurious living’ in the contemporary context. Re-inventing the traditional housing morphology, the intent was to create ‘bungalows in the sky’ with sufficient open space in the form of terraces for each apartment in order to craft a three-dimensional urban environment. The design avoids cross-views, and provides openness to spaces for cross-ventilation. The long-established Indian morphology of open ‘verandas’ as a form of open space to bring in light and ventilation is exploited as a premise to create ‘plots in the sky with dedicated open spaces’. Plots are demarcated within the site as per view lines; each block is stacked and elevated as horizontal layers to create a lively urban milieu above the ground. Considering the impure orientation of the site, each apartment unit is designed with a traditional verandah (solid balconies) on either side in order to provide for substantial shading and protection. Two double-aspect apartments are created per level with an attached open area on two sides to each apartment, a rarity in today’s developments, which in turn achieve complete shading to the glazing. The verandah therefore, attempts to address the issues of cross-ventilation, daylight, shading, open space, and views/privacy in each apartment and provides it with a unique individuality and undivided views of the landscape. As a result of the stacking, the vertically layered building enables the apartments to benefit from the view, sunlight, and fresh air, while maintaining a visual connection with the landscape below. The open space morphology of the verandahs and terraces aids in expanding this nature to the upper levels creating a unique sense of social life and community, whilst maintaining a sense of privacy. The landscape is designed to meet the needs of all residents over various generations; from the children to younger people to the older generation. As a result, 184 apartments (4/5/6 Bedroom) varying in size from 4000 to 6500 Sq Ft, and luxurious penthouses are created along with ancillary facilities for all generations such as spa, salon, gymnasium, health club, and play areas. Adequate parking is provided for the residents in the basement. All the wastewater within the development is treated, reused for landscape, and flushing. Rainwater harvesting is adopted and the stored water is fed back into the domestic circuit to reduce fresh water demand. Materiality is simple with paint and plaster; wood is used to highlight the verandas as a design and an elevational feature.

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Residency, Siliguri

Client: Luxmi Township Ltd. Year of Completion: 2008 Built-up Area: 5,20,000 sq ft | 9 acres Climate: Wet

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The Residency is the group housing located at the entrance to the Uttorayon Township, straddling the southeast plateau edge of the site. It is developed on the site with a total of about 450 units housing for over 2000 people. The housing has been developed as two types; a medium-rise strip that sits on the edge of the plateau and a low-rise court-cluster formation covering the rest of the site. This offers multiple choices for the design of the apartments, to optimize the views available, and create through design multiplicity in community character, relationship with ground and apartment sizing. Both types of apartments have possibilities of single bedroom, two bedrooms, three bedrooms and four bedrooms units (single floor and duplex variations) ranging in area from 750 sqft to 3000 sqft. A series of landscaped green reserves weave through the housing culminating in a large open green area situated at the eastern edge of the site. A small club with recreational facilities is proposed at this end. The access to the housing blocks has been kept extremely simple to achieve easy identification. Each block can be approached by road with provision of off-street and covered parking for the inhabitants and visitors. Pedestrian and vehicular movement is kept segregated to enable free and secure use of the green spaces. A central park sits on the termination of the axis at a strategic, notional center of the township, as the hub of all activities. According to the functional requirements the park has specialized restaurants area, childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s play area, terrace garden, jogging tracks etc. Every unit is planned with cross-ventilation keeping in mind the warm humid climate of Siliguri. Special attention has been paid to easy and efficient serviceability of the apartments. The infrastructure networks laid on the site, too, are made efficient to achieve economies of construction cost and maintenance. This project is intended to act as an exemplar to provide a socially and ecologically sustainable developmental model for residential development.

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Presidential Towers, Lucknow

Client: Rohtas Projects Ltd. Year of Completion: 2012 Built-up Area: 6,00,000 sq ft | 5 acres Climate: Composite

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Located in a prime location of the city of Lucknow, the Presidential Towers are predominantly a residential apartment complex with a division of a commercial component. It is sited in a new residential district of the city and has many other housing sites in vicinity. The main determinant of the morphology of this project was this very site condition, it helped provide an opportunity for the building to be placed centrally instead of a perimeter block. This also resulted in the creation of four large quadrants which further provided the opportunity for defining different uses in these areas. One of the other determinants was the incorporation of a commercial block which required the residential and commercial movements to be segregated. The detailed solar study analysis helped in the formulation of using these quadrants; the one in shade during afternoons was selected for the children’s play areas and the one that received winter evening sun was chosen for the swimming pool. Another quadrant was chosen for the main recreational garden and the fourth for an elevated activity area. Analyses were also carried out for the building façade which resulted in a system of incorporating deep recesses for windows for shading in the summer. The requirement of having a de-centralized air-conditioning system was amalgamated into the window recesses and the resultant façade allowed for environmental conditioning – both by passive and active means. A playful, random placement of these on the elevation results in a unique apartment block which allows for the expression of the small individual components of housing but controlled in a larger urban framework. The environmental conditions of the apartments from the inside have been catered to by planning only double aspect apartments. This allows for complete daylighting, full cross-ventilation and magnificent views. The parking basement, too, is largely day lit and naturally ventilated. Large cut-outs have been incorporated into the ground floor deck which allows the connection of the basement to the ground. Not only does this reduces energy consumption but also makes the basement a part of the landscape – making it safer for the inhabitants, especially women and children.

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Pearl Academy of Fashion, Jaipur

Client: Pearl Academy of Fashion Year of Completion: 2008 Built-up Area: 2,15,278 sq ft Climate: Hot-Dry

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The Pearl Academy of Fashion, Jaipur is a campus which by virtue of its design is geared towards creating an environmentally responsive passive habitat. The institute is located in a typical hot, dry, desert type climate on the outskirts of Jaipur in the soulless Kukas industrial area, about 20 kilometers from the famous walled city. The adverse climate makes it a challenge to control the micro climate within the project thus incorporating various passive climate control methods becomes a necessity and also reduces the dependence on mechanical environmental control measures which are resource hungry. The building is protected from the environment by a double skin which is derived from a traditional building element called the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Jaaliâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; which is prevalent in Rajasthani architecture. The double skin acts as a thermal buffer between the building and the surroundings. The density of the perforated outer skin has been derived using computational shadow analysis based on orientation. The outer skin sits 4 feet away from the building and reduces the direct heat gain through fenestrations, yet allowing for diffused daylight. The jaali thus, serves the function of 3 filters- air, light, and privacy. The scheme relies on self shading sliver courts to control the temperatures of internal spaces and open stepped wells while allowing for sufficient day lighting inside studios and class rooms. Programmatic requirements enabled the conception of a whole level of functions in the underbelly which would operate in a passive environment without the employment of any mechanical means of heating and cooling. The entire building is raised above the ground and a scooped out under belly forms a natural thermal sink which is cooled by water bodies through evaporative cooling. These water bodies are fed by the recycled water from the sewage treatment plant and help in the creation of a microclimate through evaporative cooling. The materials used for construction are a mix of local stone, steel, glass, and concrete chosen keeping in mind the climatic needs of the region while retaining the progressive design intent. Energy efficiency is a prime concern and the institute is 100% self sufficient in terms of captive power and water supply and promotes rain water harvesting and waste water re-cycling. Besides having become a very successful model for cost effective passive architecture in desert regions the design and facilities of the campus complement the ideology of the Pearl Academy of Fashion â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a cutting edge design institute with a sustainable approach. The Pearl Academy of Fashion is an exemplar of an inclusive architecture which intends to accommodate all the heritage values while positioning it within the contemporary cultural and architectural paradigm.

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The British School, New Delhi

Client: The British School Society Year of Completion: 2013 Built-up Area: 1,90,620 sq ft Climate: Composite

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The Site is located in the heart of the city, in a sparsely populated area with numerous parks, green areas and open spaces. The brief provided by The British School Society called for the new school building to reinstate the brand identity of the school and establish it as a landmark with urban frontage, whilst enhancing the spatial quality of the built environment. The school caters to a much higher degree of diversity and has wide implications on the education system with personalized learning being crucial to the ideology of the school. Apart from an infrastructural reform, the vision was to emphasize on creating an academic social community that would provide the students with friendly, vibrant, and secure atmosphere with a focus on enhanced management and optimized use of shared areas and common resources. The principal challenge was to remodel and construct the new building on the existing site without interfering with the running of the school operation at any given time. A strategic approach of phasing hence needed to be adopted, which would provide a clinical set of existing facilities in first phase, and subsequent ones in the future phases. A permissible construction zone around the existing building facilitated the form development. The design has been developed in association the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Building Schools for futureâ&#x20AC;? standards, which encourage flexibility and adaptability, in a unique, flexible, and innovative learning environment, derived from the needs and priorities of learners. This is achieved by creating break out spaces of diverse nature; varied heights and volumes, classroom clusters, external learning areas, specialist teaching areas and a wide variety of external informal spaces for a multitude of social activities. Multiple height verandahs, courtyards and terraces are scooped out to enhance visual and air permeability and to provide porosity to design. Larger volumes are placed on the south side to cut off the sun and to provide shade in internal courtyards. Community spaces such as the Auditorium, Sports Hall, Cafeteria, Theatre, and the performing Arts Centre are conceived as focal points towards which all other activities are gravitated. Passive Environmental Design features have been influential in the spatial planning. Circulation spaces are naturally shaded and ventilated. The building is employed as a tool to demonstrate energy efficient technologies while providing firsthand experience to design and technology with a consistent focus on developing new paradigms of creating learning environments.

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facade strategy: pattern based on changing transparency building blocks: modularity

Function/ Program Privacy / Screening of spaces Daylight / Ventilation Shading / Orientation Health and Safety norms

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JRE Group of Institutions, Greater Noida

Client: Educomp Raffles Higher Education Ltd. Year of Completion: 2011 Built-up Area: 25,00,000 sq ft | 45 acres Climate: Composite

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The design brief was to create a new Urban Development on the Outskirts of the City-An Urban spread that allows for Infinite Possibility and flexibility, yet defines the Academic Settlement. The planning process is a derivative of the definition of three main zones- Public Zone (Academic), Semi Public and Private Zone (Residential). The master plan aims to create a mini urban settlement which generates a Socio-Cultural Built environment similar to that of a City and is suited to the function of a University Campus while shaping an educational institution. Various morphologies were tested to achieve an optimum sense of balance of built and open space, suited to the space requirements. It is proposed to create a Sustainable Eco-Friendly campus, with spaces that respond to local Climatic conditions. This would also facilitate interaction and the creation of a Synergy between disciplines and departments. Vehicular movement is restricted along the peripheral network, while the internal primary, secondary, and tertiary streets are for pedestrian movement. This network of streets would encourage walking and cycling within the campus. The shaded walkways and narrow streets are articulated by exploring the nature of traditional streets to create a pedestrian-friendly environment. The Academic Block is a part of the first phase of the master plan. The building is an elevated structure with a scooped out underbelly that is thermally banked to create a recreational space which remains cool throughout the summer. The underbelly is an enclosed space, cooled by water bodies, and is approached through step-wells leading down from the corners of the building that are open for entry and exit, finished with landscape greens. The intent was to define each corner of the building as a different design element so that no two corners look the same. One of the unique features of the building is a centerpiece staircase on the Southeast inner courtyard of the building with interweaving stairs spilling out into small break out spaces at the edges. The ground floor area includes the receptions, offices and other administrative rooms, the first, and the second floors are equipped with the library next to the staircase for easy access, while the third floor is dedicated to classrooms and seminar rooms. The faรงade was carefully designed with Jaali screens that help protect sun exposed areas in the summer months. The Jaali pattern is in the shape of louvers that closely follow the summer path of the sun across the faรงade provide the most shade during the summer while allowing in the most light during the winter. It allows natural ventilation while minimizing dust and regulates the temperatures within a 5-degree comfort range.

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Integrated Campus for IILM, Greater Noida

Client: Institute for Integrated Learning in Management Year of Completion: 2012 Built-up Area: 2,25,000 sq ft | 8 acres Climate: Composite

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The project is for an integrated campus and student housing for the Institute for Integrated Learning in Management in Greater Noida, one of the upcoming suburbs of Delhi. The building is intended to house student accommodation for students and support facilities within the existing educational campus. Spatial planning is done in order to generate a studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; community, using sustainable materials and creating to generate various interactive Conglomerate spaces, each having its own identity within the overall community and spaces that could satisfy institutional/residential requirements. The campus is designed in a multibuilding format with a street pattern on a grid to generate the built volumes; the horizontal grid mass blocks Southwestern winds, and helps to maintain a connection with the existing building where as the vertical grid massing leaves an inlet for the monsoon southeastern winds. The building morphology is developed by dividing the mass into modules over a 3x3x6 grid, in which courtyards are introduced and cores are identified by carving out voids at different levels to create a multitude of open spaces in the form of terrace gardens and courtyards of diverse scales and configurations. The buildings are Oriented in a manner such that they open inwards while presenting a largely solid faĂ§ade to the outside. A miniature urbanscape is formed as each building opens on to the street, with terraces being generated at different levels for multilevel interactions. A comprehensive environmental strategy is adopted to ensure the protection of the building from extreme climatic conditions. The courtyards generate a micro-climate through water bodies and shading. Deep, recessed windows are provided for shading and help in controlling optimum day lighting. The facades are designed as the interface between the interior conditioned space and the outside environment and act as insulators and light filters to control and modulate inside conditions. The use of brick, brick jaalis and other simple finishes helps to maintain a simplistic material palette. The landscaping intent is to create a habitable natural microclimate that is environment friendly and energy efficient. The landscape aids in emphasizing the visual barrier between the existing building and the proposed, further enhancing the linear movement pattern that is generated and creating well-shaded walkways leading to a focal point of a water feature with seating space.

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YWCA, New Delhi

Client: YWCA Year of Completion: 2012 Built-up Area: 90,000 sq ft Climate: Composite

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The design brief for the Institutional Development for YWCA at Dwarka, New Delhi called for a building to house academic facilities for a vocational training institute (management programs in PGDM and BBA) and residential facilities for a working womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hostel. The design was envisaged as a mass of three distinctive strands that interweaved through the built volume; namely the Administrative Strand (Primarily comprising of Administrative Areas (offices / faculty / tutorials) and Conference rooms), the Academic Strand (Primarily comprising of classrooms and learning spaces), and the Reading Strand (comprising of library, computer center and communication labs). The Basement level is opened up to create an activated Underbelly area in order to accommodate Parking, Services, common public spaces, and landscaped areas. The three strands were represented in the faĂ§ade and built volume by means of opaque and transparent volumes as per their functional characteristics; the administrative zone being predominantly opaque, the Academic zone being Opaque with adequate transparency to bring in daylight and the reading zone was designed to be primarily transparent to allow for maximum visibility from outside. Since the campus is to be largely used by women, the basement and underbelly area was designed to be an extremely secure place, primarily to be used for parking, but as a space that can be transformed to be used for other social and recreational activities. Various environmental techniques are employed to temper the microclimate of the campus, by minimizing heat gain and increasing aircirculation. The built volume is conceived as a solid Mass with minimum punctures in the east/west facades. By scooping out the central mass, and creating a courtyard, solar ingress is permitted into the internal faces of the built mass. This also allows for the hot air to rise, reducing the pressure at the base of the building and facilitating Stack effect. Cool air channels through the sunken level, further creating a microclimate within the building. A series of open green spaces, terraces at multiple levels and shaded courtyards act as thermal buffers serving different social and academic activities while creating a sense of community for learning and life. Skylights, Shading Devices, and optimum orientation of learning spaces and corridors help to bring in natural light and minimize the use of artificial lighting. The YWCA campus is an institutional anchor within the local community of the area to strengthen the collaboration between education, exchange, and community Activities.

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Crossings Republik School, Ghaziabad

Client: Crossings Infrastructure Pvt. Ltd. Year of Completion: 2013 Built-up Area: 2,40,000 sq ft | 7 acres Climate: Composite

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Located in Ghaziabad, the Crossings Republik School is intended to be a Zero Energy School- a building that is specifically designed to be independent from the water and energy grid and offset all emissions produced during its use to have a zero net impact on the environment. The site for the school has an adjoining stream, a nullah (drain) and a sewage treatment plant which have been strategized to be partakers in the school becoming a zero energy building. The design strategy for the crossings republic was to design from the inside out following a north-south orientation to minimize solar radiation on facades. Recreational activities and Public spaces are planned on the lower levels, while classrooms and laboratories are accommodated on the upper levels. Workspaces are designed in the form of modules to increase time and resource efficiency during construction, while allowing for a high level of flexibility to optimize use. A Single Module of 48 sq m was derived out of an optimum classroom size and used in various ways to achieve multiple types of educational spaces. The inner walls are designed in a manner that they are not a part of the structure to allow change of program as and when required. The North South ensures that all classrooms receive adequate daylight from large northern windows to take advantage of diffused light while minimizing the heat gain. The corridor on the south provides a buffer from the sun as well as allows for full glazing on the north side. The sloped ceilings also help in allowing more diffused light into the building. Open corridors and Balconies along one surface of the building allow for natural ventilation and wind flow. Through an adequate response to climatic design, sufficient cost savings are made, whilst also making the environment more pleasant to work in; the natural lighting and natural ventilation have a positive impact on the studentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ability to learn. The school intends to prove to be a benchmark in zero energy design to set a precedent for other schools to follow sustainable energy saving measures and make a positive impact to the built environment.

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Chettinad Health City Auditorium, Chennai

Client: Chettinad Health City Auditorium Year of Completion: 2010 Built-up Area: 59,400 sq ft Climate: Warm-Humid

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The project brief entailed the fitting-out and interiors of an auditorium facility for Chettinad Health city, to be used as part of the medical institute. The auditorium facility been designed to cater to a diverse activities such as stage performances, lectures or seminars, projection of recorded medical information web-casts & broadcasts etc. Conventionally, auditoriums are perceived as simple, monolithic, box-like structures lined with internal acoustic paneling. The design intent was to shift away from the typical morphology in order to create a more visually dynamic space. Chennai, is known to have played a significant role in the establishment of South Indiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s historical and cultural expansion and hence the design approach is illustrative of a progressive stance and the project interior exemplifies the same. To break away from the monotony of an unadorned environment of typical auditoriums, contemporary forms were used as insertions to create continuous surfaces which were conceived to be in the form of lines and planes that extended from the floor, to the wall and wrapped through the ceiling, thus visually connecting the three surfaces. Hence, the entire structure with the ceilings, walls and the floor of the auditorium gives a vision of being one whole surface. One enters the vast expanse of foyer spaces that are broken through geometric patterns. A similar pattern is reflected on the ceiling in multiple layers to endow the space with a sensation of enclosure and to reflect the dynamism similar to that which is shaped by the ceiling of the auditorium. The strong lines of the planes are illuminated by cove lighting and recessed light fixtures ensure that the purity of the forms and materials is accentuated, whilst enhancing visual drama within the space. The auditorium was envisaged using a similar approach, using the three-dimensional geometric pattern to run through fabric-mounted, acoustical wall and ceiling panels, eventually creating a Three- dimensional envelope for the auditorium space. Wooden Slots devised as portals, were shaped as insertions within the wall to house HVAC, Lighting, audio-visual equipments and Acoustic services. To augment the randomness of the false ceiling, recesses clad in wood were used to puncture the ceiling. Materiality and palette is restrained, in order to let the continuity of the surfaces be perceived.

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Jubilant R&D Centres, Noida

Client: Jubilant Organosys Year of Completion: 2008 Built-up Area: 1,11,000 sq ft Climate: Composite

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The client brief was to develop two centres with state-of-the-art research facilities for a pharmaceutical and polymer industry. All aspects from initial research, formulation, application and packaging were studied and the programmatic, spatial and equipment requirements were understood in order to provide for an appropriate work environment. Based on this research, spatial modules were designed, to allow for flexibility of operations and create an environment which would be conducive to the scientists working here. The Site was an industrial building with large floor plates of 20000 sq ft each on 4 floors with poor natural light penetration. The first architectural intervention was to create a central atrium that allowed for better day lighting and connectivity throughout the building. Spatial organisation was done in a manner to accommodate all common facilities in the basement such as documentation, library, cafe etc. and the Ground floor would accommodate administrative and hazardous (with explosive gases or areas with high pressure applications) areas. The first and second floors housed the research laboratories. To allow for easy access, Safety showers, eye showers, and all fire fighting equipment was placed in the central area of every floor. All activities were designed in a manner so that they would be visible to all, hence leading to better visual integration and a safer environment. International standards on gas and utility piping were followed with proper installation and colour coding was done in the exposed utility corridors for easy maintenance and safety. The air-conditioning was one of the main energy consumers here, as all the laboratories (and fume hoods) required large volumes of exhaust. This was dealt with by a combination of converting some areas into air-cooled zones and using heat recovery wheels on the airconditioned areas. Industrial effluent treatment plants were installed to treat and re-use large quantities of process water. Waste handling (especially from clean rooms, laboratories and nuclear medicine areas) was carefully planned and segregated. Material finishes was a key area of special attention. Surfaces prone to chemical corrosion, areas with high pressure build-up, labs prone to explosions; all areas had to have special coatings, pressure resistant accessories like light fittings etc.

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Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi

Client: Delhi Art Gallery Year of Completion: 2009 Built-up Area: 950 sq ft Climate: Composite

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The Delhi Art Gallery is an endeavor to create a simplistic space to retail the best of contemporary art in India, while positioning itself in the new Indian Contemporary Art Retail Paradigm. The architecture aims to generate a new genre of art retail; a calm and introspective retail store conducive to the appreciation of art in a gallery-like environment for the art aficionado looking to invest money in these prized possessions. A pre-requisite to art retail is the maximization of wall space, which is designed for maximum exposure of a quantum of art works. Additionally, the store was intended to have the ability to transform itself for a variety of art events; to house the complete bandwidth of art works; from high-end solo shows of a few works to huge group shows with segregated and mobile spaces. Another challenge was to accommodate a library, an area for public dissemination of art works, storage, display and offices all within an area of 900 sq ft. Conceptually conceived as an exuberant, glowing event space, the intent was to create an optimal setting for exhibiting art, which would be flexible, to present an array of art works, while at the same time ensuring that the limited wall area is best optimized. This was done by creating more wall area for the retailing of the art works by means of a combination of fourteen movable/ reconfigurable panels and 3 Fixed Panels to create six rooms instead of one. The interplay of the panels provides the entire space with an intended dynamism which expresses itself by way of a constantly transforming architecture; by creating an event space and an experience which can display the art in an innovative, yet elegant manner. Passersby have the chance to glimpse the action inside; the repetition and variation of the panels and the performance itself. Lighting is easily configurable and flexible in accordance with the arrangement of the panels and panel sizing. A partially imposing box made of muted white, fretted-screen panels anchors and encloses the formal entrance space/ meeting area while creating a private space for customized retail and viewing of the shortlisted artwork before its final sale. An information hub characterizes the entrance space by generating interest, before one actually steps into the gallery. The Delhi Art Gallery defines a new vocabulary in the art retail paradigm that encourages encounters and plays with perception; the spaces within the store are read and used independently by each visitor.

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Masterplanning

The Uttorayon Township, Siliguri

Client: Luxmi Township Ltd. Year of Completion: 2006 Built-up Area: 400 Acres Climate: Wet

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Uttorayon Township is a 400 acre development on a non productive Tea Estate in Siliguri, West Bengal. The guiding objective of the project was to create a model for low cost development in India which enhances community while respecting the environment.One of the major challenges of current critical thought on housing is that of generating a residential space, not only from the required technical and spatial reformulation of the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;builtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, but also from the investigation of new urban orders. The key concept that is explored for the planning and design of this development is the formulation of a new urban system addressing issues of settlement identity, dynamic and flexible infrastructure, landscape and open space distribution, and perceptual paradigms. The Uttorayon Township project strives to address these very issues and generate a development that may serve as a model for future such developments. The site is divided into smaller neighbourhood clusters of 20 plots structured around a communal green space. The cluster organization is designed for multiple configurations that can respond to changing social demands and this as a system has successfully fostered a close immediate community. The main strategy was to respect the natural topography of the site and to use it for an integrated surface drainage system, keeping the development costs low. The Township successfully uses simple technologies to tackle complex problems. Innovative waste water and storm water management systems and treatment and disposal of all types of waste within the township help in minimizing the impact on the surrounding developments. The economic drainage system described above serves as a natural ground water recharging network which mimics the original water flow patterns of the terrain and keeps storm water runoff to a minimum. Intensive studies were conducted on the streetscapes, setbacks and other built-form elements to ensure the predominantly northern wind flow can penetrate each cluster. Building codes ensure that each building is adequately spaced to maximize natural ventilation and therefore reduce the high humidity levels. The annual movement of the sun was studied to optimally orient each building to control solar heat gain. Openings are placed predominantly on the southern facades which effectively block the vertical summer sun while letting in the lower winter sun.

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community / walkability: a network of courtyards, walkways and bicycle paths

surface drainage system: a natural topographical network with no site runoff

natural ventilation: spatial planning to control elevated humidity levels

passive solar design: optimal north-south orientation to control solar gain

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flexibility of clusters | cluster plan

Atlanta Citi, Suvali, Gujarat

Client: Atlanta Ltd. Year of Completion: 2015 Built-up Area: 1074 Acres Climate: Hot and Dry

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Located on the Arabian Sea coast, the township is planned to be an upcoming zero-energy entertainment destination including villas, apartments, a luxury hotel, other entertainment zones and an amusement & water park. The master plan concept is to create a development which respects and follows the natural features and topography of the site due to close proximity of the neighboring ecosystems. Between the sunny land and the windy Arabian Sea, are varied, localized barren-land strips which are utilized by the project to create its own ecosystem. The design evolves into the development, strip-by-strip on the existing central East-West axis. The axis cuts the development into two halves: the northern private zone which houses the villas/ apartments and the southern public zone where the entertainment facilities and tourist accommodation are located. Each one of these urban or natural zones derives its landscape from the environment on which it emerges. Three kinds of villa developments are planned; the forest villa development that extends around the existing vegetation, with a range of residences influenced by its surroundings. It gives great living quality to the inhabitants with green and shaded public spaces and wide avenues meandering through the forest landscape. The Lagoon villas are mainly cottages arranged in islanded clusters in water, interconnected with meandering roads and a floating island. The Beach Villas are in contrast to the ones in the thickly vegetated area; they are designed on wooden decks propped over the ground to ensure minimum excavation. The public zones are equipped with rooftop parking with solar panels that generate a part of the energy requirement and provide shade to this area. The public square is a continuous strip of built mass that divides the public and private zones and, at the same time, marks the beginning of the public realm. Large areas have been given over to the development of indigenous natural parks which will showcase the beach, mangrove and forest ecologies available at site. The idea of an iconic building for the entire development is endowed to the high storied structure of a five star hotel. Ghats are designed all along the high tide line in order to avoid the landscape erosion and to provide large promenade and leisure areas. The site is presently a barren land to be converted to an evolving eco city. It promises zero resettlement by planting more than 60,000 trees and maintaining large green areas. As an environmental strategy, careful consideration has been provided to the use of renewable energy resources and prevention measures have been taken for coastal erosion. The township proposes an architectural landscape derived from its natural landscape as an iconographic and atypical way of modern living and entertainment. morphogenesis. | masterplanning

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Siolim Villas, Goa

Client: Ayaan Infra Year of Completion: 2012 Built-up Area: 17 Acres Climate: Warm-Humid

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The project is based in Siolim, a village in Goa, situated around the Chapora River. The site is located on the steep hillocks of Siolim with rich fauna and being located around the river makes this an extremely challenging project and a great location for the design of residential villas. The site has a Gradual Ascending Slope with extremely Dense Vegetation (indigenous Cashew Trees) â&#x20AC;Ťâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;Źand possesses significant Views all along the front edge of the plot of fields below, opening out to the sea. Hence, conserving the existing natural features of the site such as contours and vegetation and ensuring views of the river were crucial issues that needed to be addressed. Environmental Considerations and Outdoor living possibilities in Goa are key determinants of the master plan and villa design. To enhance and optimally utilise the vegetation on site, certain significant axes are formed to optimize and achieve the best views throughout the site. The site has been divided into 14 plots each of which has a unique design and layout, to ensure best views from each plot. An efficient and integrated system, homogenous with the site was developed, based on free flowing forms and organic growth. The front edge and foreground of the site has tremendous potential for accentuating views both along the edge and along the axes. The service network has been integrated with the landscape design proposal for the site and results in an aesthetically pleasing system of swales and landscaped green strips along the main road. The villas are staggered throughout the site to provide views from each villa. Villa Locations and re-contouring is maintained in order to retain the maximum number of existing trees and ensure that the landscape merges between the plots. Due to the large expanse of Land, Immense foreground on site and a relatively low Built Volume, the design approach is to create each villa as a single sculptural object using horizontal planes to Climatically Screen and Shade the Built Volume. The planes are offset from the building to create Wind Scoops that help channelize and moderate the wind into the building. The Roof Plane and the building skin are significant design features that respond to the climate and enhance the house as a sculptural Object which is further enhanced by Stilts that cause minimum intervention on Site Contours.

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The Renaissance Township, Burdwan

Client: Shrachi Burdwan Developers Ltd. Year of Completion: 2011 Built-up Area: 257 Acres Climate: Warm-Humid

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The Renaissance Township is located in Burdwan on a 257-acre site, 90 km north of Kolkata on the newly constructed Golden Quadrilateral linking Kolkata to Delhi in a zone designated for the town expansion by the Burdwan Development Authority. The program developed as a result of a series of discussions with the owner, Shrachi, and the BDA resulting in a mix of plotted and apartment residential, commercial, institutional, and recreational uses. The key concerns addressed in the design are concepts of liveability, environmentally sustainable planning and phasing of development which as issues have become the generators of design. The idea of liveability was developed around proximity to green open spaces, pedestrianisation and walkability to essential services. It also combined a high level of infrastructural servicing including well designed electrical, water, sewage, drainage, gas supply and power back-up systems. For this, a cluster model was developed that reduced through vehicular traffic, gave easy and equal access to common greens and most importantly generated a community which established individual identity. These culde-sacs were strung together with continuous green strips that connect the social and recreational infrastructure on site. This generates very definite zones on the site with which the residents begin to identify themselves. The green linking strips also act as the conduits of environmental design for the project. They carry the main infrastructural provisions and act as the main drainage channels reducing drainage load on the street drains and allowing for rainwater recharge. The sewerage network also flows through these to reach a large circular central conservation area (with the treatment plants) which has been designed as a wetland. This was a crucial intervention in the landscape of the township that allowed a large holding capacity of water before disposal â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a necessity for the lowlying site. This also controlled the amount of filling on site which kept the development cost low. The planning, proposed population distribution and the consequent infrastructure provision were designed in a manner that allowed for phasing. This keeps the maintenance costs in check and the development costs linked to actual use. The same rigour of environmental sensitivity pervades the design of individual houses and other buildings in the township. The planning ensures that most houses are oriented northsouth to reduce heat gain and have setbacks on all four sides to encourage cross-ventilation â&#x20AC;&#x201C; an essential in the warm humid climate of Burdwan. Successful experiments with insulated pre-fabricated construction have also been tried in the houses which use dense polystyrene insulation with Ferro-cement panels to result in lightweight and quick construction that is remains remarkably cooler than the normally constructed houses. morphogenesis. | masterplanning

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masterplan development | overlays

The Woodside, Kasauli

Client: Woodside Developments Pvt. Ltd. Year of Completion: 2012 Built-up Area: 1,25,000 sq ft | 12 acres Climate: Composite

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The proposed development is located in close proximity to the town of Kasauli, that is well-connected by road to the cities of Chandigarh and New Delhi. The site is highly contoured land with level differences of about a 100 m within the site. The neighbourhood is predominantly used for agriculture and vegetation, and hence the site exists within a vast green, mountainous landscape. The project brief called for the construction of an exclusive, high-end residential development comprising of 37 cottages of four types based on design, size and location within the site and other integrated common facilities at varying heights. Site planning and organization was initiated with this premise, as per the existing natural slopes of the site. Layering of the base principles of circulation (existing and proposed), public amenities and the slope, led to the development of the site plan. The cottages and the internal road networks have been strategically placed in order to minimize the intervention through cutting and filling of the natural terrain of the region, whilst retaining the maximum of the existing vegetation and contours as undisturbed. The cottages are positioned on the slope in a manner that ensures unobstructed panoramic views of the scenic hills of the Shimla valley; the largest ones enjoy the farthest view. This is achieved by maintaining a minimum height difference between the roof level of each cottage and the ground level of the preceding cottage uphill. Various Environmental Strategies have been adopted to secure Water and energy Conservation throughout the development. The site has been well equipped with rainwater harvesting facilities that help to reduce water wastage. Rainwater harvesting pits have been established at regular intervals within the site which further help in the storage of surface runoff. The collected water is then used for the purpose of irrigation downhill and the remaining water is then channelized further downhill to be collected in a sump to be reused later. The outer walls of the cottages are 350 mm in thickness that help provide a thermal mass maintaining the inside temperatures to be cool during the day and warm at night. This also helps lower down the dependence on air conditioning considerably reducing the energy consumption. Special features have been incorporated to pledge the exclusivity of the site and the development; including an open pavilion at the highest point of the land and a viewing deck to maximize the views from the site. An existing water body on the site which has been retained and the onsite vegetation has been maintained as well in order to preserve the sanctity of the site.

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Cottage A Cottage B Cottage C Cottage D

overlays | site planning

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Cottage A Maintaining constant balance between earthcutting and earth-filling, building entry at the ground floor level.

Cottage B

Cottage C

Cottage D

Entering at the first floor level of the building, the lower levels sit within the slope. Earth scooped out are used to re-grade landscape slopes.

The cottages are embedded into the steep contours with the rear side, entirely locked in earth.

Leaving the existing contours undisturbed in order to reduce intervention wherever possible. Building entry from second floor.

Umaid Bhawan Palace Foothills, Jodhpur

Client: Jodhana Developers Pvt. Ltd. Year of Completion: 2013 Built-up Area: 57 Acres Climate: Hot-Dry

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The project is a residential development, comprising of a range of deluxe villas on the foothills of the Umaid Bhawan Palace in Jodhpur, Rajasthan. The 8-acre site for these high-end villas belongs to the royal family. The proposal intends to maximize the potential value of the site and intends to provide each villa with an unobstructed view of the palace. Although designed to target the elite group, the intent was to also connect to the local community to preserve the traditional Rajasthani character, while advocating contemporary design concepts. To ensure this, the master plan is designed to reflect the Rajasthani cultural heritage in the courtyards and the external finishes are an amalgamation of local art and intricate carvings on stone with straightline formation of the architecture. The built mass of the villas have been designed on basis of three volumes to create variations in functions, materials, and spaces where the living spaces are segregated from the circulation areas. The integration of the traditional Jaali in the design acts as a double skin and a thermal buffer, allowing diffused light to enter the villas through the perforations. Hence, the Jaali not only protects the built volumes from the harsh environment, but also serves as a traditional design element blending into the contemporary built form. As an environmental landscape strategy, it was decided to work in close consultation with the local horticulturalists, who understand the harsh desert climate and can provide their expertise on the same. The idea is to contain sustainable horticulture that utilizes less water and provides with adequate shading facilities to overcome the harsh site conditions. The design features of the master plan, therefore, highlight maximum green and minimum vehicular circulation. Vehicular circulation will be rationalized in order to strengthen connections in a more pedestrianfriendly manner, with pathways shaded by pergolas providing a buffer between the roads and the villas, further interspersed with a central park and green spaces.

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Hospitality

The Nira, Kerala

Client: Shanti Hospitality Pvt. Ltd. Year of Completion: 2013 Built-up Area: 1,50,000 sq ft | 40 acres Climate: Composite

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The design brief called for a luxury eco-resort in kumarakom, Kerala. As a boutique project, in close proximity of the Arabian Sea, the objective was to offer an indulgent retreat experience, of life amidst the backwaters. Physical and Visual Engagement with the natural setting laid the foundation for the development of the globally unique design set amidst a serene landscape. The 40-acre site on the man-made puthenkayal island lies facing the Vembanad lake Back waters (approx. 270m of frontage). 4.2m wide, water channels run through the site with alternate strips of land and water. In order to craft a built volume within the natural site scape, this natural landscape is retained and exploited for primary movement, as the site is predominantly flooded for most part of the year. Along with this, the condition of no vehicle movement inside the site and a clear distinction within the location of facilities and villas helped to construct the master plan. A script was developed with the given conditions and to maintain a sense of peace and individual habitation, rules were set out to determine the location of the villas. (Such as placement of node points, vehicle routes connecting the node points, pedestrian movement connecting all the nodes by the shortest route, placement of facilities etc.) The Location of the villas is over-layered with the water channel running through. The result was a master plan with Interlocking movement systems of road and pathways periodically hyphenated with nodes connecting to a tertiary movement system linking villas. Traditional references have informed the design of the villas; such as the basic module Nalukettu, where four blocks built around a courtyard into which the roof slopes on four sides, protecting an internal verandah from rain and sun. The covered pathways and villas allow one to experience the rain without getting wet. Environmental concerns dictated the form development and help to regulate the microclimate within the resort. Location and orientation of the villas, is optimized to achieve maximum porosity to westerly winds, leading to wind movement acceleration throughout the site. The roof form has been derived from a tree, where the foliage spread is used to provide shade, whilst simultaneously creating a wind tunnel effect to regulate the temperature. This aerodynamic, retractable roof form with large perforated cantilevers traps the wind and filters the sun, thus increasing the thermal circulation of the space, yet maintaining light quality in the internal spaces, and further emphasizing on the views. During the day, when the winds are strong, the roof of the inner volume can be retracted, to allow the thermal regulation of the interior space. The project was in co-ordination with the clientâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s design advisor- Mr. Peeti Sastrawaha.

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site planning | programming as per site conditions

The Lalit, Dehradun

Client: The Lalit Group Year of Completion: 2013 Built-up Area: 2,92,000 sq ft | 21 acres Climate: Composite

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Located on the foothills of the Himalayas in close proximity to a reserved forest area, the design is for a resort development consisting of a mid market hotel, villas, a golf course, a spa and an institute development. The land area is an evenly contoured site with a 20 m drop from the North to south and a seasonal ravine flowing through it during the months of July and August. With two main buildable zones on the site, the site was planned in a manner that the hotel and the spa rest on the north end of the site adjoining a landscape spine with elevated views. The hotel acquires an approximate of 11,000 sq m land area and is composed of two volumes comprising of services as one part and the business centre/rooms as another. In between both these volumes, the space has been manipulated to create space for a reception hall and carve the entry into the site. The faĂ§ades for both these components has been processed independently in a manner that blends the services and business centre into the landscape and the rooms are highlighted with an iconic image. The built volume of the rooms expands from the second floor to converge with the services block, enabling more rooms to have a view to the South of the site and merge to form a final volume that houses the entrance. All hotel rooms are arranged in a typical doubly-loaded corridor format, arranged with their respective balconies framing the external views. The concept for the cottages has been conceived by combining the entrance volume that rests over the landscaped terrace volume staggered to provide the element of privacy. The concept contravenes with the typical morphology and narrates a converse design. The institute is designed as an alternating bay of built mass and green landscape connected through open corridors placed on the northwest corner of the site, away from the hospitality functions. The site is designed to be accessed through a main road that leads directly to a car and bus parking whereas the internal circulation on the site is restricted to pedestrian and golf cart movement. A landscaped spine runs through the site which is a combination of different kinds of plantations, woodlands, and water bodies. Public functions complete the design of the development with discrete recreation structures, restaurants, and cafĂŠs that blend into the landscape spine, while complementing the hospitality component.

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The Grand, New Delhi

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Client: Unison Hotels Year of Completion: 2014 Built-up Area: 9,36,400 sq ft | 10 acres Climate: Composite

The project is a proposed expansion of The Grand Hotel at Vasant Kunj, New Delhi. The architecture aims to construct new programmatic blocks, while integrating the existing features of the hotel with contemporary interventions within the predominant site restrictions. The prime requirements of the client were to develop a commercial block, an executive block, serviced apartments, and an additional floor for the existing hotel. There was also a requisite of a large banquet hall with a pre function area and two basements for parking. While implementing the design for the new blocks, the contemporary interpretation of a traditional Indian design aesthetic was considered, which is manifest in the proposed design scheme. Due to the various site constraints with regards to accommodating another wing and integrating it with the existing built volume, it was proposed that the existing features of the hotel be amalgamated into the extension by reinterpreting the cornices and the fenestrations in a contemporary manner. However, to accommodate the new expansion plans, the services and sustainability strategies of the entire hotel had to be revised and reconsidered in order to achieve a consistency in the new features. To capitalize on maximum shading for all facades, and to accommodate the site constraints, each faรงade was treated as a separate element to correspond to the side that it faced. Environmental protection and conservation were key concerns of the client which were addressed through green area development plans and energy conservation methods. Pivotal to the magnificence of The Grand, the morphology of the new blocks was attributed in close consideration to the existing features of the hotel while implementing contemporary Indian characteristics.

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morphology development | elevational strategy

Soaltee Crowne Plaza, Kathmandu

Client: Soaltee Hotel Ltd. Year of Completion: 2012 Built-up Area: 80,000 sq ft Climate: Temperate

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The project brief calls for the refurbishment and interiors of a 40-yearold heritage hotel located in Kathmandu, Nepal. Given the traditional character of the building, the restoration had to ensure that the rich heritage quality does not dissipate in the process. The architectural intent behind the refurbishment of the hotel rests on the fusion of the traditional and the contemporary; to amalgamate the existing characteristics of the building with modern elements and reinstate the hotel character. Nepal is infused with a rich, ancient, refined culture that has embraced diversity and has enabled a unification of artistic and architectural traditions of the old and the new. The design approach for the hotel adheres to a similar thought; the intent mandates a face-lift to the place, but at the same time, construes the native Nepalese motifs and elements of tradition. The intent has also been to unify the many segregated fragments of the hotel, each of which has been designed over the last few decades in a piece-meal manner. On entering the hotel, the reception and Port Cochere have been envisaged as illustrative of the physical landscape of Kathmandu, amidst the valley of the Himalayan mountain range. Different textures of colours and stones from these mountains have been incorporated to craft a vibrant setting that blends together with the proximate physical environment of the hotel. It is defined by a traditional tankha painting as a backdrop with a sculpted stone table that creates a contrast with the polished stone floor, further accentuating the grand communal area. The ceiling, in some areas, has been conceptualized with cylindrical mesh lights with altering heights that create a rhythmic pattern with decorative customized light suspensions in copper/brass. The intent has been such, that the ceiling gets reflected in the flooring pattern through the copper inlays. The nativity of Nepal has also been maintained with a creative inception of pottery on the ceiling and on panels in common areas. Inverted pots hung from the ceiling highlight the influence of pottery in Nepal and at the same time offers an artistic infusion of contemporary design in a traditional manner. In a similar fashion, sliced pots have been placed on panels and walls to create an ambience that is visually strong with folklore.All materials used are natural and the details that have been used are specific to the location of the project such as Metal and Wooden Jaalis, Sculptures, Thanka Paintings, and Rice Paper etc. The nature of the project that called for perpetuation of the authenticity of the local area also entailed the planning and implementation of the concept of green interiors.

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Form Development: Iconic Tower

Taxashila Hotel & Cultural Complex, Kolkatta

Client: Bengal Ambuja Year of Completion: 2013 Built-up Area: 8,50,000 sq ft Climate: Warm-Humid

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Taxashila is a cultural center located outside the fabled â&#x20AC;&#x153;city of joy,â&#x20AC;? Kolkata, that seeks to embody the socio-cultural aspirations, historical background and ambience of the place. The aim is to create an experience that would reflect local values and foster community. The client envisioned it as a cross between a spiritually charged lyceum reminiscent of Taxashila, the center of learning in ancient India and a cultural hot spot worthy of luring people away from kitschy shopping malls. Taxashila forms an important node in the continuity of public spaces across the city. Due to its proximity to upscale suburbs of Kolkatta called Salt Lake Park, it has become a vastly popular destination. The paramount design challenge is to seek a balance between preserving the natural sanctity of the site while allowing connections to dense urban areas. The site, an 18m high reclaimed land/hill was originally a garbage dump. A floating deck is visualized as the intervention which addresses a number of site, aesthetic, structural and programmatic issues. The deck is a bold visual element and will be highlighted as such to become the back bone of the project. Retail units above the deck are designed to be light weight structures to take advantage of the deck as a structural system. They define the organic street profile ending in a court around which the club is placed. The Organic character of street transforms into ordered geometry of club built mass. Double sided retail opens to retail street and deck edge similar to pier developments. Air flow is directed into the circulation space in two ways 1) Morphology of the built mass - the built mass is opened up at angles that direct wind into the central spine. 2) Light weight cover over retail - the light weight tensile covering over the atrium can be designed in a manner such that it directs wind flow down into the street space. Tensile roofing shape collects rain water and takes it below deck for recharge. The Tower block is located on the south side of the project and partially shades the retail street. The Retail street width is also modulated to create a self-shading street.

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Upper Deck Level Plan

Typical Hotel Level Plan

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Deck Level Plan

Form Development: Iconic Tower

Site Plan

ITC Park Boulevard (Fortune), New Delhi

Client: SRPL Year of Completion: 2011 Built-up Area: 25,000 sq ft | 3.7 acres Climate: Composite

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The project is concieved as a boutique hotel with a built form designed as free pavilions juxtaposed compositionally. The pavilions are laid out in the gardens as per the programmatic division of three zones viz. the Public Areas (Banquets and other facilities), the Private Areas (Guest rooms and ancillary areas) and the Semi-Private Areas such as the Swimming Pool, Deck etc. The built mass is positioned longitudinally as per these zones in the form of strips and overlaying of these striations creating interesting spaces and views. With respect to the site topography and terrain, the built form is carved out in concurrence with the existing site environment. A splendid Indian Banyan tree with sage like tresses stands in the heart of the site in all its glory. The public spaces are centered around this tree and it becomes a focal point within the entire built structure. The linear, pavilion form enhances the best views around the tree which is best optimized to activate the spillover spaces that surround it. The traditional Indian ornamental, a non-structural ‘jaali’ or trellis has been rationalized and pushed to the limit through structural manifestations by combining ‘jaalis’ to form a structural parasol. This parasol, in various permutations and combinations addresses the issues of environmental sustainability critical to the climate in this region. The terraces on each floor get activated through the trellis as an overlay. The omnipresence of the idea is achieved through light and shadow which forms a key element of the visual, which then, further corresponds to the changing light patterns daily/annually and creates a dynamic. The interior design in turn, exemplifies the initial ideas and design principles and hence is immensely minimal by way of the palette and features employed. The interiors take cues from the parasol which is by far the most dominant feature of the development. This approach lends itself by way of a more composite product where the insides are derived from the outside instead of them reading as two disparate entities.

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Form Development: Iconic Tower

Asian Roots Spa, New Delhi

Client: Asian Roots Year of Completion: 2009 Built-up Area: 6,400 sq ft Climate: Composite

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Taking its inspiration from the birth of holistic treatments in Asian traditions the Asian Roots Spa, is designed as a tranquil sanctuary. The spaces designed in a minimalist palette provide a serene sense of calm and well being. The entry to the spa is through a zen garden with a Japanese dry landscape garden or Karesansui forming the focus of the entry. A bottle palm forms an asymmetrical natural accent to the space. Wooden seats placed on a floating stone bench provide a place for contemplation in this soothing setting. Entering through the wooden floored reception, one comes to the heart of the spa, a large triple height atrium space. Light floods into the atrium diffused through billowing fabric through a skylight three floors above. The space overseen by a large wall painting of the Buddha links the spa at the various levels, through internal windows, and courts. The treatment rooms on the ground floor overlook the zen garden providing a connection with nature even in this small urban site. The interior details extend the space of the garden inwards. Free-floating circular mirrors deconstruct the walls, reflecting fragments of the inner spaces. A glass floor recreates the dry landscape zen garden within the spa. The treatment rooms on the upper floors are reached via a dramatic cantilevered staircase rising through the atrium. The treatment rooms highly individualistic and minimalistic while retaining the functional aspects of than, Balinese and Malaysian treatments. Creation of a calm and soothing ambience is extended through a restrained palette of materials chosen for their sensory and tactile qualities, with texture and colour used to provide luxurious accents. Lighting controls synchronized with treatments heighten the experience. The yoga room is a composition of all white surfaces with a light wood floor. Translucent skylights bathe the space in an even natural white light.

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Form Development: Iconic Tower

Sequel, New Delhi

Client: Vinnamr Hospitality Pvt. Ltd. Year of Completion: 2009 Built-up Area: 1,800 sq ft Climate: Composite

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Sequel, by United Coffee House is located in a busy market square in the heart of the one of the up market colonies of New Delhi. United Coffee House is one of the old and renowned restaurants of Delhi that has deeprooted memories for most Delhiites who frequented the restaurant over decades and was developed as a follow-up to the existing legend. The market square is extremely busy and an identity for the restaurant was a part of the design brief- both for the passers-by and for the restaurant customers. Morphogenesis saw an opportunity to do an insertion to lay the seeds of an urban renewal, and as a challenge to establish an identity for Sequel within this urban spread and move away from the disorder. Owing to the narrow depth of the shops which were dark, dingy, and damp, the design was conceptualized with interplay of light and shadow as an architectural feature by means of a ‘jaali’. The brief also required a sense of privacy and pampering- transporting the food aficionado away from the clutter and noise of the street to a calm, serene, and sophisticated Zen-like ambience. The interior theme was derived from the idea of a [Box] 2 – A Box within a Box. The restaurant space is conceived as a discreet high design space, strung along an almost sculpture-like staircase moving over three floors. A bamboo lamp installation over this triple height space created by the staircase visually creates an impact by means of its exceptional sculptural identity. The intent was to revive, reinterpret, and modernize traditional Indian craft through the abstraction of the time-honored motif ‘harshingaar’; on the walls, the furniture, the staircase, the ceiling, and lights etc. The pattern is used in the form of both reliefs and perforations that abstract the theme in an extremely contemporary manner. A traditional skin- ‘jaali’ is wrapped all over the exterior façade using lights and voids as a pattern-making tool to create dramatic and dynamic light changes through the day and over seasons. A limited palette of colours and materials is used - Beige, Wooden floors and Red is used to highlight the features. What is unique to the high design nature of the restaurant is that the entire design was treated as a high design handcrafted product. The final outcome is exclusive, memorable and will probably age well; from engaging and stimulating the old customers, to welcoming the new, the Sequel is more than just an experience.

Form Development: Iconic Tower

The Bristol-Executive Tower, Gurgaon

Client: Bright Star Hotels Year of Completion: 2013 Built-up Area: 73,276 sq ft Climate: Composite

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The Bristol Executive Tower is an additional building to the existing popular boutique hotel, The Bristol, in the National Capital Region. The architectural intent has been developed on the basis of the site restraints and an attempt has been made to ensure that the scheme responds to the site surroundings. Situated in a densely developed area, in between dense existing buildings, the site conditions allowed for the construction of a lean structure, strategically built to enhance maximum views and allow for high inhabitable spaces. The basic design philosophy of the Bristol Hotel departs from the existing morphology of typical Gurgaon hotels. Volumetrically, the design strategy accentuates the narrowness of the building which makes it look much taller, compact and iconic. The morphology pursues the unification of a transparent glass volume with a core, opaque volumetric mass creating an elevated structure. A grand entrance lobby and reception area demarcates the access into the building as a base level entry. Through the main lobby, The space has been organized to craft and maximize the connections between the Food and Beverage components of the existing hotel and the new extension. The transparent glass volume comprises mainly of the rooms to capitalize on surrounding views and the core volume consists of the circulation spaces. This new expansion extends the hotel’s capacity with the addition of 96 new guestrooms and dedicated social spaces with restaurants, bars and health clubs and spa and a business centre for the client’s corporate requirements. The interior design philosophy for the Bristol Executive Tower forms a very key component for the conception of the outer façade of the structure. The outer skin is a derivative of the plans of the room layouts, vertically projected on the facade.he idea was to move away from the typical morphology of hotel rooms and make the entire space view oriented including the bathrooms. This pattern perforates the façade in a way, that it gives each room a unique motif which allows for permeation of subtle natural light into the rooms. The design design approach of the Bristol Hotel intends to establish a symbolic structure that communicates an artistic image of the Bristol brand in the hospitality sector.

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Site plan showing Ground floor

Ground floor plan

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House 2, New Delhi

Client: Undisclosed Year of Completion: 2007 Built-up Area: 16,232 sq ft Climate: Composite

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In the relaxed urbanity of the N85 residence, the architects use the house as a platform to investigate two issues central to design today: the family as a social unit and the environment. The lifestyle of the Indian family has changed in the age of global travel and internet media with new spatial needs and notions of comfort. This residence multitasks as a house for three generations of a family and their many visitors, a busy workspace, and on occasion a cultural hub. The house sets about to create its own terrain, a veritable oasis, within its inscribed territory. The forecourt is landscaped with gracious steps and pools. Crisp clear planes are articulated with materials: stone, wood, concrete which are simply striated or set in interlocking patterns. They come alive when light hits the different horizontal surfaces. Transparency is achieved by not only by glass, but a combination of water, reflection, and modulated lighting. One navigates the complex program of the house through a series of spatial episodes that are expressed via volumes. Most spaces in the house are designed to format and re-format instantly to house varied programs and uses. The house can be identified by overlapping spatial categories split into three levels: the private domain of the nuclear family (bedrooms and breakfast room), the shared inter-generational spaces such as the family room, kitchen and dining areas, and the fluid public domain of the lobby and living spaces. The public domain is activated each time the house opens its doors for â&#x20AC;&#x153;Manthan,â&#x20AC;? a cultural event that promotes an energetic exchange of ideas between various creative disciplines. Environmental design plays an integral role in achieving a network of green and open spaces. The house is imagined as a porous object whereby air movement and visual connectivity permeate into the built form. The planning, orientation, structure and materiality of the house respond to the essential passive energy efficient techniques suitable to the Delhi climate. It incorporates high thermal mass in the west, earth damping for the basement studios, landscape buffers on the south, and high performance surfaces on the east and a large cavity on the barrel roof as well as the lap pool which helps with heat absorption on the top terraces. The courtyard concept has been radically re-interpreted and along with landscape, earth, daylight simulators and carbon-dioxide sensors. There is an entire eco-system living and growing in the heart of the house.

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Ground Floor Plan

Passive Cooling

First Floor Plan

Second Floor Plan

Passive Lighting

Client: Undisclosed Year of Completion: 2007 Built-up Area: 16,232 sq ft Climate: Composite

Casa Mosoon, Goa

Client: NRN Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Year of Completion: 2012 Built-up Area: 11,648 sq ft Climate: Warm-Humid

Opposite Page: Internal Courtyard

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Located in the lush green environment of Calangute, a landmark area of Goa, the project is an assemblage of three separate villas, each being a three-bedroom residence with its individual swimming pool and courtyards. Built over an area of approximately 16,000 sq ft, the design scheme follows a structure with the third villa/penthouse made to rest on top of the other two on the ground floor in a manner that provides for ample open spaces for each villa owner. The design of the villas explores the volumetric play through double and triple height spaces and is unified through the fluid character of the common collective landscape. The morphology of each villa is developed by dividing the built volume into 3 parts and elevating the middle part; thus creating open spaces around it and infusing abundant natural light into the living spaces that are oriented towards the landscape areas. The penthouse on the second floor level expands laterally over the two duplex villas thus scaling down the physical mass and framing a vista at its entry. The upper block is scaled and pushed vertically down to reduce the impact of the physical mass and a central vertical core is provided to access the upper block. The spatial arrangement of the villas is fashioned out of the interplay of volumes and voids; governed by comfort achieved through ideal solar orientation whilst capitalizing the view of the paddy fields beyond. The form is crafted around the existing magnificent trees on the site and towards the view of the meadows in the east; the trees are incorporated in the spatial planning, and their impact is intrinsic to the design of the faรงade and volumes. The villas comprise of large open-plan living spaces, 3 bedrooms and en-suite with attached outdoor facility and a family lounge doubling up as a spare bedroom. Each villa is designed in a manner so that the built volume of the lower floors is directed towards the individual landscaped areas, with each villa having its own outdoor deck, a dedicated private landscaped court with a swimming pool. Green spaces find their way through spatial planning through internal green courts on the second floor level. The hierarchy of spaces progresses from Public to Private as one enters the house through the Entrance Patio (Public Space), and moves further through the Lounge/Dining (Semi Public space) gradually inside to the pool areas (Private Space). The spaces are, therefore, designed to be oriented along the wind direction to optimize the comfort levels and reduce dependence on the active energy sources.

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Art House, New Delhi

Client: Undisclosed Year of Completion: 2011 Built-up Area: 17,000 sq ft Climate: Composite

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The Art house was designed in close consultation with the clients who are great patrons of art and wanted the house to be a backdrop for their art collection. The site is located in the Lutyenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bungalow zone in New Delhi, with considerable site restrictions in place, and hence, the site planning and layout proved to be a challenge. The residence is developed on basis of two curved planes enclosing a large green space with bigger rectilinear blocks offsetting the curved lines. Keeping the initial client brief in mind, the surface treatment of the faĂ§ade is predominantly with glass to facilitate transparency and visual integration of the outside greenery with the inside spaces. This enhances the view to the artwork on clear, large walls that are lit effectively from the outside. The glass walls also help to underline the depth of the house with the amount of daylight flowing inside through the skin. The entry foyer on the ground floor opens into a courtyard consisting of a backlit installation wall to showcase artifacts and a transparent vista runs across the house with a shallow water body to display various artistic sculptures. The living room is minimalistic in design with a customised wood wall equipping the bar with hints of foliage imparting an ecological backdrop in all the common areas. The house encompasses both indoor and outdoor dining with a private garden and an outdoor swimming pool which faces the north. The entire design is minimal and follows a subtle pastel color palette of white, grey and brown which is also manifest in the landscape design. Stone is used for the rectilinear areas and speckles of brown are noticeable in the large deck spaces and terrace gardens on the first floor with shaded areas.

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House 3, New Delhi

Client: Undisclosed Year of Completion: 2011 Built-up Area: 13,000 sq ft Climate: Composite

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Derived from the idea of a sculpted cube, the design of the house translates into a linear flow of the interior spaces from the inside to the outside. The lines of the cube are manifest in the design and impart the spaces with a geometric interlocking quality. Each floor is equipped with a large single/double height terrace garden that adds to the modularity of the sculpted design. The aim of the design was to keep the lines simple and minimalistic, and enhancing details with modern furnishings, lighting and fenestration. The entry foyer is a distinct part of the whole house and breaks away from the pure geometry of the C-shaped floor plate. It is illustrated as a translucent glass box that glows at night, fixed to a wood/stone structure and floating on a stainless steel reflecting pool. At the ground level, the courtyard follows up as an extension of the foyer with a retractable roof to be used as a common break-out space by the family. A glass-encased tree sits in the centre of the house, emerging from a void at the ground floor. This visual can be viewed from each room as well as the courtyard; as not only is it visually appealing, but it also conceals the service areas of the house. The boundary wall of the house abuts the pool which is visible from the dining area and is connected strategically to the gymnasium in the basement. The first floor has been devised to accommodate the meditation room with bottom band windows that give the walls a floating effect, sufficing the requirements of the space. All levels of the house have been designed with terraces forming a central raised green space which is used for outdoor meals. The materiality of the house is simple and restricted in order to highlight the overall morphology; An Indian beige sandstone forms the plinth and the pool deck and the building skin is alternately formed out of exterior grade dark wood and white sandstone. Dark wooden floors from the exteriors continue through the courtyard. Accents are highlighted with a play of materials such as Fritted/filmed translucent glass walls and other feature walls and floor details.

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House 1, New Delhi

Client: Mr Kumar Year of Completion: 2007 Built-up Area: 4,844 sq ft Climate: Composite

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The residence is located in an affluent neighborhood in the increasingly dense city of New Delhi. Though starkly modern, the design takes cues from Indian sanctuaries: the haveli or mansion organized around private courts, the step-well with an enfilade of semi-enclosed shaded spaces, and the temple sanctum, serene despite the chaos outside. An orchestrated series of courts divide and sculpt the space of the house. Each court is an opportunity to stage a composition of materials, light, and foliage. The fortress-like entrance wall is punctuated by a large opening which allows a glimpse of the entry courtyard. This forecourt, shaded by a tree in bed of white pebbles, establishes the minimalist mood of the residence. The interior is animated through sky lit courts where filtered sunlight continuously changes the feel of the space through the day and the seasons. Rooms respond to the program while boundaries are continuously defined by light and material. Large picture windows and glass walls allow space to flow uninterrupted from the inside to the outside without the mediation of frames. A precise poetic manipulation of materials contrasts with the spare austerity to the interiors. Polished concrete, glass, polished ebony and stainless steel surfaces play off each other, bringing texture and lightness to the spaces. They provide a tactile and sensual counterpoint to the white architectural surfaces. Concealed cove lighting behind the floating ceiling in the living room wash the walls in a gentle glow. A precise poetic manipulation of materials contrasts with the spare austerity to the interiors. Bathrooms are bathed in muted light which seeps through glass tiles stacked from floor to ceiling and light canons, and reflects from opaque glass ceilings. A pleated ebony staircase is contained within sheets of glass that separate it, if only momentarily, from the living room. The House reflects the emergence of the home as a private retreat, away from the chaos of the bustling metropolis. The presence of rich details delineates the meditative spaces.

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Ventilation / Solar Studies

Form Development: Iconic Tower

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Swabhumi Cultural Complex, Kolkata

Client: Ganapati Parks Built-up Area: 8,00,000 sq ft Climate: Warm-Humid

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Swabhumi Cultural Complex is a cultural center located outside Kolkata, the fabled “city of joy,” that seeks to embody the socio-cultural aspirations, historical background and ambience of the place. The aim is to create an experience that would reflect local values and foster the community. Due to its proximity to upscale suburbs of Kolkata called Salt Lake Park, it has become a vastly popular destination. The paramount design challenge is to seek a balance between preserving the natural sanctity of the site, while allowing for connections to dense urban areas. The site is a former landfill used by the city of Kolkata, which has now been detoxified. Given the extremely low bearing capacity of the land, the intent was to have a small structural footprint on the ground and have almost a tree-like spread as you go up. The forms have been inspired by nature to create an environment that is open, expansive, and consonant with the natural surroundings. These biomorphic forms that resemble clusters of marine flora such as mushroom corals have bioclimatic intent. The groupings and deep fins that flare up create microenvironments due to passive systems such as ‘the stack effect’ and the venturi effect in order to accelerate the wind velocities. Day lighting and shading are of major consequence to both shielding the visitor from vagaries of the hot and humid weather in Kolkata yet maintaining a level of connectivity with nature. People can flow in and out of this ‘organism’ due to the porous nature of the scheme. While these forms are certainly unique and surreal as architectural design, they reflect a rigorous yet open-ended process of evolving the architecture from the various natural forces prevalent in the site, the brief and ideas of identity. It resulted in a built environment that caters to humans on multiple levels rather than a singular monolithic ‘building’. The nature of the space forces the inhabitants to think, explore and discover. Hence, it is not only a backdrop or the ‘vessel’ that hosts these activities but an active catalyst in generating ideas, and even debate about the nature of public space. The project was initially developed in collaboration with Gianni Botsford Architects (London).

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Form Development: Iconic Tower

Delhi Nullahs, New Delhi

Client: morphogenesis. Built-up Area: 350 km | 1750 acres Climate: Composite

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The Fractal Metropolitan Layer: The Proposal is to use Delhi’s neglected Nullah network to fundamentally transform the city. The nullah network is 350km long, contiguous and criss-crosses the national capital. Currently, the nullahs are just unhygienic drains that are seen as a problem by the citizens of Delhi - they smell, breed mosquitoes, pollute the Yamuna and so on. However, a relatively small investment can turn the nullahs into a valuable asset for the common citizen. The necessary changes will help to create: 1) An Alternative Transport Network: Create walking/cycling paths on these nullahs to provide commuters with last mile connectivity to public transport (buses and metro). This will significantly improve the effectiveness of the existing public transport. Furthermore, people will be able to walk/cycle for short distances (and it will be an enjoyable experience). Since the nullah network is 350km long - this would be a very important contribution to the lives of the common citizens. 2) An Alternative Environmental Network: Use a system of organic reedbeds and aerators to clean the sewage entering the nullahs. This is a well established system and it is both environment-friendly and cheap. This will dramatically improve public health in the city as well as help replenish aquifers. This will also reduce the need to spend large sums on building sewage plants at the Yamuna. 3) An Alternative Cultural Network: The new network could be used to trigger a number of new urban activities ranging from tourism to sports. For instance, some of the nullahs are 700 years old and were built to provide water to Delhi’s old cities. Thus, many of the city’s famous archaeological sites are situated on the nullah network. Most major cultural venues in the city can be interconnected through this network, including Commonwealth Games venues, historical monuments, museums, theatres, stadiums, etc. to create a new walking network to drive next generation tourism. The initiative aims to reuse the neglected water drainage system of Delhi; the ‘nullahs’ to progressively bring about sustainable change within the city. These nullahs can be transformed to enhance the social, cultural and transport (pedestrian and cycling) networks of the city. The nullahs restoration project, presents the hidden opportunity that lies within Delhi by establishing a green and sustainable network as an alternative and democratic source of engagement within the city of Delhi.

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The Amarnath Pilgrimage, Amarnath

Client: Shri Amarnathji Shrineboard Built-up Area: N/A Climate: Cold

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One of the most pious and perilous of Hindu pilgrimages, the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Amarnath ji yatraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; is situated at a height of 3888 m, accessible only during the months of July-August for a period of roughly 45 days. The destination of the pilgrimage consists of a cave with a natural formation of an ice stalagmite in the form of a Shiva lingam. The brief was to re-design the pilgrimage by way of developing residential accommodation for the pilgrims and allied infrastructure facilities. The location of the site is in an avalanche-prone zone and the weather permits a very small window of only about 3 months each year is suitable for building activity. The start point was the formulation of a masterplan wherein the yatra was reorganized to demarcate areas for specific activities and more importantly to provide a sense of order to an otherwise chaotic arrangement. The entire masterplanning is done in a manner to ensure and permit all avalanches to be diverted away from the semi-permanent facilities and be allowed to flow into the river with minimal damage to the infrastructure during the period when it is not being used. Given the terrain of the region, the holy cave can only be accessed either on foot or on pony back. This made the task of being able to construct any accommodation close to the cave virtually impossible given logistical regions of being able to carry material and equipment. Another hurdle was by way of the extreme climatic conditions and topography of the region and its bearing on traditional methods of building. Concrete was un-feasible as a choice of material as foundations would be impossible to plant in glacier territory and Steel would go brittle at these low temperatures. Due to the purity of landscape, it was imperative to keep minimal intervention into the topography of the region. Drawing from the elements and re-interpreting them in light of modern day technology, there has been an attempt to achieve a fine balance between nature and man and In the process, to achieve an environment which is not just more comfortable for a pilgrim who has traversed hundreds of miles but also to be able to heighten the spiritual experience.

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Cave accomodation

Rajaswa Bhawan, New Delhi

Client: Govt. of India, Ministry of Finance, Department of Revenue Built-up Area: 9,82,000 sq ft Climate: Composite

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The design approach aims to provide a model for future urban transformation in New Delhi; by attempting a solution which deals with planning constraints and future increased densification which is not use-dependant but reconfigurable for various building types. Possible systems of integration, permeability, pedestrianisation, contextually relevant typologies are looked at and an urban edge is envisaged in order to operationalise inclusion. Time-tested, traditional spatial and environmental schema of streets, courtyards and terraces are reintroduced to resolve issues of privacy and segregation while maintaining live building edges. A multi-building concept is adopted on site which breaks up the scale of the total built area into manageable units and presents a more optimum scale to the issue of densification of New Delhi. Gravitas is derived from a unification of the facade treatment; an almost atonal monumentality befitting its purpose. Double-aspect floor plates, of 9 metres width are configured to allow for flexibility and maximum efficiency. Vertical circulation is shared between two buildings which allows for greater flexibility in program distribution. The multi-building format adapts by joining and segregating at the cores to give individual identities to the directorates, and to the ministersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; building, while unifying the appearance of the building. The ground floors under all the blocks get populated with public uses such as conference/meeting rooms, gyms, food court, library, information centres etc. linked together by the main pedestrian street which connects to the main roads on both sides. The street leads to private gardens and other open spaces that become part of the complex open space structure. The offices open out to terraces at multiple levels bringing the open spaces closer to work environments. Environmental sustainability is an underlying value that informs every aspect of the design. Passive systems are created to address site planning, envelope design, shading, and built space efficiency while taking care of wind penetration and complete daylighting of all areas. The impure orientation and its resultant insolation conditions are tackled with a jaali wrap as a second skin, 600 mm away from the principal facade which acts as a sun-breaker and generates a ventilated/shaded zone keeping the building naturally insulated and cool. A similar strategy is employed over the internal spaces where a structure that is reminiscent of the tree canopies of New Delhi covers the internal street with photovoltaic panels.

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1 street network and urban expanse street network and green spaces are integrated with surrounding fabric

2 summer garden extensive shading on the summer garden

3 winter garden extensive sunlit areas in winter garden

4 terraces terraces at various levels

5 water features form a larger network for evaporative cooling

6 courtyards & verandahs for shading, evaporative cooling, cross-ventilation

Form Development: Iconic Tower

National Police Memorial, New Delhi

Client: Government of India, Ministry of Home Affairs Built-up Area: 2,73,952 sq ft Climate: Composite

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The proposal aims to create an Interactive, Dynamic yet contemporary memorial and museum to honour the national police forces; one which reflects the supreme sacrifices made by the numerous men and women who knowingly take up the arduous task of protecting the people of this country, being well aware of the risk they would put themselves to in this process. The proposal seeks to reflect these sacrifices made not just in the past, but the present and the future too. The memorial is intended to be Interactive, Educational and above all Inspirational for all who visit it. The visitor moves, rests and experiences the project through a nondirectional and non-hierarchical sequence of spaces in order to reaffirm and re-establish their relationship with the policemen and women of this country. The site is located on the Rashtrapati Bhawan vista and is flanked with three main roads with entrances into the site. The traditional notion of boundary walls and fences has been done away with and instead have been replaced with earth berms which rise up from the site and take a visitor through a canyon of green which gently narrows towards the main entry points and finally opens up to create a sense of arrival in this sacred public space. The visitor is led through an open area museum which has been laid out as a grid of trees, where police memorabilia have been spread throughout the site in glass showcases, interspersed with strips of green. Each of these is flanked by benches and seating areas which gently rise up from the ground, providing the visitor with a moment to reflect. These benches also invert to create troughs of water adding to the experiential quality of the public space and allowing for considerable interaction between a visitor and the environment generated in the memorial. The eight edifices atop the existing podium are oriented in the eight cardinal directions symbolizing and paying due respect to the various regions which contribute to the protection of this nation. These are clad in wrought iron, known to age beautifully, so as to achieve a balance of permanence and dynamism, of tradition and modern technology and achieve a timelessness and sense of permanence. Solar panels mounted on top of these structures are able to generate enough energy to be able to power these displays without them having to rely on ancillary sources and provide a sustainable solution to the power requirements of the structure. This space is flanked by another door leading into another dark and somber chamber which comes alive with the glow of hundreds of candles placed by visitors.

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India Post

Client: morphogenesis. Built-up Area: N/A Climate: All

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India has 155,333 post offices; almost 3 times, more than China’s 57,000, which is the next nearest, in terms of points of sale reach. India Post has been re-branding and building up on its product capability over the last few years, and today, this vast real estate can establish itself to impact the economic, ecologic, and social networks of the country. Owing to its local character and identity, and the ability to reach everyone in India, India Post is in a unique position to address the new challenges that Indians are and will be facing in the future. The intervention takes the shape of a central service core at each post office, which is developed to generate solar power with support from the National Solar Mission and the MNRE Roof Top solar PV Scheme. The roof area of all the post offices 6,988,500 sq m (average roof area/post office: 45sqm) can be used to generate 1,677,240,000 kWh which is enough electricity for 3,599,227 people. By introducing a computer in each of these locations, and with constant electrical supply from the solar panels to power at the least, a computer, light and fan, this enormous physical infrastructure can be transformed into an interconnected network of 153,300 nodes which will lay the basis of connecting a billion Indians. It is recommended that a Pilot Project be launched with 5 nodes located in each part of the country to demonstrate the efficacy of the network. The project generates: Economic Awareness: • Micro financing lending institutions/ ATM machines • Establishment of small business/ Tele-working stations • Real Estate: to generate revenue through marketing etc. • Internet access for everyone/ Aid Job Searches Ecologic Awareness: • Local pollution levels through public monitoring station • Dissemination of Green Environmental technology • Ecological hotspots/hiking trails for tourists • Source of Solar Power for the Village Social Awareness: • Census taking and Unique ID Project center • Panchayat for group discussion/ Connectivity Disaster Management: • Real time Meteorological Data for farmers • Tele-Medical facilities/ enabling Distribution of relief aid

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155,333 Ave ra ge roof a rea /post offi ce 45 sq m N o . o f p ost offices To ta l ro o f a rea

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6,988,500 sq m

Panchayat

Post Private

Info Centre

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Pote nt i a l 1 R a in Wate r H ar ve sti n g Average rainfall in India

800 mm

Assuming 60% of water recovered from roof

6,988,500 x 0.8 x 0.6

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3,354,480 cu m 3,354,480 / 33

127,063 people

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Pote nt i a l 2 S o lar E ne rg y Average annual solar radiation Average efficiency of solar unit (inc. transmission losses) Average output/year

365 * 5.5 2000kWh/m2 12%

Economic Info

Cultural Info

Private Office

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2000 x .12 240kWhr/m2 Total power output of India Post 6,988,500 * 240 1,677,240,000 kWh Average annual consumption per person 466kWh E n o ug h electricity for

1,886,895,000/ 466

3,599,227 people

Cost for 1 sq m Solar Panel (150W Monocrystalline)

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Rs 13,500 Energy and Rainwater Harvesting Panchayat

General Info

Tota l co st for s o l ar p an e ls

Postal Office

Consulting Office

Panchayat

Post/ Info Centre

6,988,500 * 13,500

9,430 Crores

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Post Public

New Plug-In: The Tree of Knowledge

Chhat Puja Ghats, Yamuna, New Delhi

Client: SRDC | MDMY | morphogenesis. Year of Completion: N/A Built-up Area: 80 acres Climate: Composite

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Shahjahanabad Redevelopment Corporation (SRDC), Meri Dilli Meri Yamuna (MDMY) and Morphogenesis have come together to propose a new approach for conservation and revitalisation of the Yamuna Riverfront. To demonstrate a model for strategic and sustainable interventions in the riverfront, The Indraprastha Power Station site has been chosen as a pilot project following the government decision to close down this power station. The complete master plan design on the entire site proposes the introduction of recreational use in the form of cultural use, active sports use and casual recreational landscape use to the proposed function by the Zonal Development Plan â&#x20AC;&#x201C; â&#x20AC;&#x153;recreation and ghatâ&#x20AC;?. It is proposed that the power station site along with its buildings be converted into a museum and arts centre of a national stature with large exhibition areas and galleries, lecture halls/ seminar facilities, outdoor sculpture gardens and exhibition gardens, a large amphitheatre for cultural events and recreational facilities towards the river end. A wide open concourse which may be used in multiple ways connects all the facilities. The cultural zone culminates in the development of the water edge with a modern interpretation of the traditional ghat by conceiving it as a sweeping curve of a gentle slope along the river bank which allows multiple uses to happen at different times and aims to create an archetype for the new river edge. The water reservoir for ritual bathing is designed as a pool separate from the Yamuna in order to create a tank which is safe and shallow, and more importantly has clean water filled with collected rain water. The active sports areas are located along the metro bridge edge with direct accessibility from the metro station and include water sports and outdoor sports facilties. The existing rail tracks are proposed as the main link for this system which are viewed as a series of planted gardens to allow through and through connectivity across the length of the river. It is also intended to make this into a zero-energy and zerodischarge development and Innovative solutions based on environment sustainability are the main thrust of the proposed design. Channelization techniques, containment of expected waste, re-use of existing structures as museums, restaurants, public facilities, and conservation of existing site features are crucial. The site will have a complete rain water harvesting system.

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Design Directions, Traveling Exhibition, India | InCITE’s +91 Residences, Bangalore | Urban Islands: Architecture 10, Australia | Delhi Nullahs: The Fractal Metropolitan layer, Urban Habitat Summit- India Habitat Centre, New Delhi | Timeless @ Experimenta Design Festival, Lisbon | An architectural exploration of light and its absence, A Few Darkmen, New Delhi | Morphogenesis, Big Bang, The British Council, New Delhi |India at the turn of the Century, Nature Morte, New Delhi, India Manit Rastogi, Raj Rewal, Ram Rehman, Michael Tarr, Luisa Lambri etc. | Evolutionary Environments, Renssalaer University, New York | Evolutionary Environments, Manit RastogiSolo Exhibition, ROM, Gallerie for Arkitektur, Oslo, Norway | AA Architecture in Asia, Traveling Exhibition | Genetic Language of Architecture, Autodesk University, London | The Fractal Metropolitan layer, Vistaar II, The Gallery Stainless, New Delhi | International Elevator & Escalator Expo Tech Forum, New Delhi | Women Leaders in India, New Delhi | Symposium of Sustainable Development, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) | Delhi International Renewable Energy Conference, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), Government of India | Archmat, Indian Institute of Architects- Trichy, Tamilnadu | Pecha Kucha, New Delhi | HAI Conclave, Hotel Association of India, ‘Emerging Trends in Hotel Design’, New Delhi | International Conference on Competitive Cities; Confederation of Indian Industry, New Delhi | Critical Projects, R.I.B.A. London Manit Rastogi, Richard Rogers, Norman Foster, Michael Hopkins, F.O.A. etc. | Inside Outside: Architecture for Humanity: New Directions, New Delhi | GRIHA National Conference, New Delhi | IIID- Bangalore | International Green Building Conference (IGBC), Singapore | The Architecture and Design Conference, Hongkong | Bangkok Design Festival, Bangkok | Green Build Asia, Hongkong |

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FutureArc Green Leadership Award, Singapore | Architecture+Design & Spectrum Foundation Architecture Awards, Special Mention- The Institutional Architecture Award & The Innovative Interior Design Award of the Year | The Economic Times ACETECH Award | Highly Commended Seal of Distinction, Cityscape Awards, Emerging Markets | 20+10+X World Architecture Community Awards | Finalist, ARCASIA Award | Green Good Design™ Award- The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and the Chicago Athenaeum | Project of the Year, AIQ Awards for the European Union, Israel | Cityscape Architectural Review Special Award for Environmental Design | A+D Spectrum Award for Young Enthused Architect | Stainless Innovation Award for Innovation in Application of Stainless Steel Building Architecture | Cityscape Architectural Review AwardResidential (Built) | Honorable mention, ED+C Excellence in Design Awards | Jindal Stainless Award for Design & Innovation Excellence in Stainless Steel | Finalist, MIPIM Asia Awards | Cityscape India Award for Best Master Planning and Urban Design | Best High-Rise Apartments/Township, ArchiDesign Awards | Indian Institute of Interior Designers- MK Award for Hospitality, Interior + Architecture | Indian Institute of Interior Designers- MK Award for Corporate Interiors | Best Commercial Interiors Project, CNBC AWAAZ and CRISIL Real Estate Awards | A+D Spectrum Award for The Habitat Award for Single Residence Design | Archi Design Award for the Young Architect of the Year | Indian Institute of Interior Designers- MK Award; Recreation | Indian Institute of Architects Award for Excellence in Architecture | A+D Spectrum Award for Office Architecture Winner, International Design Awards (Architecture) | Best Learning Building, World Architecture Festival Awards | Best Sustainable/Green Architecture, ArchiDesign Awards |

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77/32 Gurgaon Uppal’s Housing (Excellent Agencies Pvt. Ltd.) 78,000 Anandvillas Faridabad Puri Construction Pvt Ltd. 10,77,092 Avenue 114 Gurgaon V Square 3,77,092 API - Lucknow Lucknow Ansal Properties and Infrastructures Ltd. 8,00,000 Apollo House Gurgaon Apollo Tyres Ltd. 96,800 Art House New Delhi Undisclosed 17,000 Asian Roots Spa New Delhi Asian Roots 6,400 Assotech Noida Assotech 81,081 Atlanta Citi Gujarat Atlanta Ltd. 1074 acres Aurora Coimbatore True Value Homes India Pvt. Ltd. 24,75,000 Bombay Boulevard Mumbai Supra Estates (India) Pvt. Ltd. 16,34,944 BSCPL Regional Corporate Office Gurgaon B.Seenaih & Co. 51,750 Casa Mosoon Goa NRN Infotech Pvt. Ltd. 11,648 Centramall Chandigarh Uppal Housing Ltd. 1,45,600 Chettinad Health City Auditorium Chennai Chettinad Health City 59,400 Chhat Puja Ghats, Yamuna New Delhi Undisclosed 80 acres City Centre Siliguri Ambuja Realty Development Ltd. 11,86,000 Commercial Development Gurgaon Undisclosed 10.5 acres Commercial Development Coimbatore True Value Homes India Pvt. Ltd. 19,00,000 Corporate Office Gurgaon Jindal Pipes Ltd. 45,000 Corporate Office Raigarh Jindal Steel and Power Ltd. 25,833 Corporate Office Gurgaon Ernst & Young 1,73,220 Corporate Office Gurgaon Jindal Stainless Ltd. 92,500 Corporate Office Noida Ansal Properties and Infrastructures Ltd. 11,80,000 Corporate Office Gurgaon C & C Constructions 47,000 Crossings Republik School Ghaziabad Crossings Infrastructure Pvt. Ltd. 2,40,000 Delhi Art Gallery New Delhi Delhi Art Gallery 950 Delhi Nullahs New Delhi Undisclosed 350 km | 1750 acres Diet Library Kansai Kan Undisclosed DS Group Factory & Offices Noida Dharampal Satyapal Ltd. 9,13,000 Eldeco Raffles Township Jalandhar Eldeco Raffles 75 acres Factory & Offices Faridabad Keselec Schreder Pvt. Ltd. 50,000 GIGA Housing Pune Undisclosed 4,50,000 GYS Vision Gurgaon Dignity Buildcon Pvt. Ltd. 15,88,000 Harley Davidson Corporate Office Gurgaon Harley Davidson India 7,000 Heritage Square Gurgaon NRN Infotect Pvt. Ltd. (Conscient) 2,05,784 Hotel Inn & Convention Centre Dehradun Emaar MGF Land Pvt. Ltd. 11,30,000 House 1 New Delhi Mr. Kumar 4,844 House 2 New Delhi Undisclosed 16,232 House 3 New Delhi Undisclosed 13,000 Housing Development Pune Azure Tree Lands Pvt. Ltd. (Kalpataru) 2,17,230 Housing Development Gurgaon Umang Realtech pvt. Ltd. (Uppal Housing) 1,52,542 India Bulls New Delhi Kenneth Builders and developers Ltd. (India Bulls) 10,00,000 India Glycols Corporate Office Noida India Glycols Ltd. 3,91,700 India Post India Undisclosed IIIT New Delhi Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology 24.4 acres Integrated Campus for IILM Greater Noida Institute for Integrated Learning in Management 2,25,000 IT Development Mohali Undisclosed 9,00,000 IT Park Development Pune Tishman Speyer India 66,86,812 IT/ITES SEZ- Uppal Greater Noida Uppal Housing Ltd. 22,50,000 ITC Park Boulevard (Fortune) New Delhi SRPL 25,000 JRE Group of Institutions Greater Noida Educomp Raffles Higher Education ltd. 25,00,000 Jubilant R&D Centres Noida Jubilant Organosys 1,11,000 KMG Infotech Corporate Office Chandigarh KMG Infotech 60,000

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Maker Maxity Mumbai Indian Film Combine Pvt. Ltd. 21,72,256 Marble Arch Chandigarh Uppal Group Housing 4,30,000 MBD Ludhiana Ludhiana MBD (A.K Enterprises Pvt. Ltd.) 7,18,000 Mixed Use Development Sahibabad AERENS 4,00,000 Mixed Use Development Nagpur Equinox Realty & Infrastructure Pvt. Ltd. (ESSAR) 6,56,000 National Police Memorial New Delhi Government of India, Ministry of Home Affairs 2,73,952 Nidra Bangalore C&C Hotels Venture Pvt. Ltd. 2,56,000 Offices Gurgaon PASCO (Robin IT solutions Pvt Ltd.) 23,600 Office for IREO Gurgaon IREO/ Orange Realty Pvt. ltd. 12,163 Parkland – BPTP Faridabad BPTP Ltd. 1150 acres Pearl Academy of Fashion Jaipur Pearl Academy of Fashion 2,15,278 Presidential Towers Lucknow Rohtas Projects Ltd. 6,00,000 Prospective Hotel Development New Delhi V Uppals & Co owners 15,000 Punjabi By Nature Gurgaon AR Fisheries 3,700 PVR Forum Bangalore PVR Ltd. 90,000 Rai ka Bagh Jodhpur Undisclosed 3,40,000 Rajaswa Bhawan New Delhi Govt. of India, Ministry of Finance, Department of Revenue 9,82,000 Resort Panchkula Puma Realtors Pvt. Ltd. (IREO) 20,451 Residency Siliguri Luxmi Township Ltd. 5,20,000 School Development Guna, Madhya Pradesh Neiil Education Pvt. Ltd. 1,88,675 Sector 29 Gurgaon Haryana Urban Development Authority 402.61 acres Sequel New Delhi Vinnamr Hospitality Pvt. Ltd. 1,800 Siolim villas Goa Ayaan Infra 17 acres Soaltee Crowne Plaza Kathmandu, Nepal Soaltee Hotel Ltd. 80,000 SP Jain Centre of Management Dubai SP Jain Centre of Management 4,05,315 Standard Chartered Chennai Scope International Pte. Ltd. 4,00,000 Sushant Golf City Lucknow Ansal Properties and Infrastructures Ltd. 2,75,000 Swabhumi Cultural Complex Kolkata Ganapati Parks Ltd. 8,00,000 Taxashila Hotel & Cultural Complex Kolkata Bengal Ambuja 8,50,000 TERI Gram New Delhi The Energy and Resources Institute 2,87,000 The Amarnath Pilgrimage Amarnath Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board The Bristol - Executive Tower Gurgaon Bright Star Hotels 73,276 The British School New Delhi The British School Society 1,90,620 The Grand New Delhi Unison Hotels 9,36,400 The JW Marriot Chandigarh Lokpriya Buildwell Pvt. Ltd. 2,70,000 The Lalit Dehradun The Lalit Group (Bharat Hotels Ltd.) 2,92,000 The Lalit Suri Hospitality School Faridabad The Lalit Group (Bharat Hotels Ltd.) 2,00,000 The Metropolitan Gurgaon MGF 5,62,900 The Nira Kerala Shanti Hospitality Pvt. Ltd. 1,50,000 The Qube Gurgaon Jagatjit Industries 9,80,000 The Reliance Mall New Delhi Reliance Industries ltd. 1,45,600 The Renaissance Township Burdwan, West Bengal Shrachi Burdwan Developers pvt ltd. 257 acres The Residency Raipur Ambuja Housing & Urban Infrastructure Co. Ltd. 33 acres The Uttorayon Township Siliguri Luxmi Township Ltd. 400 acres The Woodside Kasauli Woodside Developments Pvt. Ltd. 1,25,000 Tilda Office Gurgaon United Ricefields Pvt. Ltd. (TILDA) 11,000 Township Greater Noida Paras Seasons Haven Pvt. Ltd. 88 acres Umaid Bhawan Palace Foothills Jodhpur Jodhana Developers pvt Ltd. 57 acres University for Chiranjiv Charitable Trust Gurgaon Ansal Properties and Infrastructures Ltd. 4,50,000 Verandas Gurgaon Well Worth Project Developers Pvt. Ltd. (Salcon) 11,00,000 Villas Bangalore India Build Villas Development Pvt. Ltd. 5,78,239 World Bank New Delhi The World Bank 52,000 YWCA Institute & Hostel Dwarka YWCA 90,000 morphogenesis. | complete list of projects

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