High-Performance Façades
AR. RAVIDEEP SINGH
Associate Director, Creative Designer Architects
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Ravideep Singh is the Associate Director at Creative Designer Architects (CDA), a New Delhi-based architecture firm that has helmed notable projects of diverse typologies across Asia. An alumnus of the University of Illinois U.C, School of Architecture, Ravideep has earned a specialisation in ‘Healthcare Planning’ from Cornell University, NY. Santosh Children's Hospital, Indirapuram
optimal comfort for all building users, this aspect has been gradually mastered over the last decade. Instilling a certain degree of flexibility in the building envelope, which allows occupants to control their environments, is one of the solutions. This can be enabled through responsive shading devices, acoustic finishes etc., to regulate optimal daylighting, avoid glare, manage environmental noise etc. Apart from the building users, the building operators and managers are also to function as a re-
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lay between the users and the working of other building systems. Today, the synchronisation of this ecosystem with the BMS is possibly the most plausible answer to curate a high-performance enclosure system. ‘Sustainability’ and ‘energy-efficiency’ are no longer just labels, but integral functions of every modern building. A building’s façade is not only its first impression, but is an essential system that can significantly contribute to an efficient and cost-effective environment and a healthy future.
At CDA, he has conceptualised several award-winning healthcare infrastructure projects including AIIMS Guwahati, Pragma Medical Institute at Bathinda amongst others. Ravideep strongly believes in the communicative power of design — the ability of empathetically-designed spaces to create uplifting sensory experiences for its inhabitants. He was also recently recognised as the New Age Trailblazer, iGen 2021 by Architect & Interiors India.
