Client: Private Developer
Location: Pune, India
Projected Built Up Area: 140,000 Sq Ft
Project Type: Residential High Rise

The site is located in one of the fastest growing suburbs of Pune, India. The project is proposed to include middle income housing component along with luxury housing on the higher floors.
 

The primary challenges of this project were creating an efficient residential multi-family layout that would be flexible enough to respond to a rapidly changing socio-economic demography. The design brief expressed the need for an iconic facade but within a modest budget. The facade is designed as a series of precast modules made from glazed ceramic box section with built-in terracotta panels. The modules would be reproduced throughout the entire elevation making its construction cost feasible and the assembly fairly simple.

Each apartment layout has only living and bed rooms abutting the front and sides to maximize the views and experience of the residents while the services have been placed at the core. Typical Pune residential layout is known for the alternate terracing typology. However these alternating terraces end up having access limited to alternating rooms, by providing angular terraces this problem has been overcome and every terrace can be accessed by multiple rooms.

To achieve maximum flexibility for apartment interior layouts, the floorplate is arranged as an ‘H’. The H configuration allows columns to be placed on the periphery of the floor slab with smaller beam spans while keeping the interior floorplate column-free.