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Galeecha Pavilion ’09

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Project: Galeecha Pavilion ’09
Location: Mumbai
Status: Built
Area:111 Sq.Mt.
Design Team:Shashank Srivastava


Sustainable Processes A temporary structure measuring 20 meters by 6 meters designed for an exhibitor in a trade show was designed to be 100% recyclable in sharp contrast to the usual wasteful nature of such typologies. The pavilion consisted of 110 industrially die cut and laser-cut corrugated cardboard members in a parametrically designed slotted system ensuring that members perpendicular to each other at intersections locked- in enabling a rigid grid that has inherent structural capacities. Post the exhibition the cardboard was recycled by the manufacturer.

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Palate

Project: Palate
Location: Mumbai
Status: Completed
Area: 1860 Sq.Mt.
Design Team: Jugal Mistri, Beverly Alvares,


A store for high end European furniture and their in-house brands, Palate’s design revolved around transforming the notion of the traditional shop in shop. The design intent involved developing intervention as background for the furniture to be dispalyed within. Using a monochrome palate of stainless steel mesh to set up sections within the horizontality of the building floor plate, the installation changes from vertical screen dividers to horizontal shelving encompassing space while dividing it. The translucent nature of the stainless steel screen sets up a visual detail through the moire patterns arising out of a juxtaposition of dual mesh layers mounted on 2 x 2 acrylic frames.

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Urban Amphitheatre

Name: Urban Amphitheatre
Project: Mixed Use Development
Location: S.G. Highway, Ahmedabad, India.
Size: 200,000 sq mt.
Status: Unbuilt
Design Team: Saloni Parekh, Aparna Dhareshwar, Sanam Bauva, Karan Bhat, Ameesh Bhatnagar, Nitisha Raje, Sandy Patwa.


This project questions the type of the typical shopping mall as an introverted box disconnected from its context. We propose a series of 1:12 pedestrian ramps that ascend along the terraces of the stepped volume of our building, hence extending the ground level retail FB programs vertically in effect creating an urban plaza stepping up from the corner location of our site, a quasi-public space open to the city long after the fixed hours of the commercial programs that occupy the interiors. Working with programs that include offices and retail, we proposed an expandable and flexible module open to programmatic change over time. Further two vertical voids drill through the mass of the building culminating in lower courtyards bringing light, ventilation access to the lower public program of the auditorium.

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Monisha Jaising Flagship Store

Project: Monisha Jaising Flagship Store
Location: Mumbai
Status: Completed
Area: 465 Sq.Mt.
Design Team:Mayur Salunkhe, Vinay Mathias
Photographer: Raju Shukla


 

Using the A.P.O.C (a piece of cloth) collection by Issey Miyake from the 80s , as a conceptual starting point, we proposed three multi-operative installations namely a facade, a display system and a ramp/threshold to weave around columns and beams, manifesting as a response to the abbreviated nature of the space rather than a preconceived desire to create form. This installation piece becomes both the string that formally binds the faceted space together as well as holds program like displays for Monisha’s signature clothing. The centrepiece of the space are three horizontal ribbons (each 2 6 high) of highly reflective stainless steel that mirrors users in the space, juxtaposing the clothing hung from the middle band against their reflections. The user hence becomes a participant in a dynamic display system.

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Galeecha Pavilion ’10

Project:Galeecha Pavilion ’10
Location:Mumbai
Status:Completed
Area:46 Sq.Mt.
Design Team:Sameep Padora

 

Extraordinary Ornament: For an exhibitor dealing with carpets in a national tradeshow, we designed our pavilion as a dynamic cloud of carpet modules above the display space. The carpet modules attempt to relook at the potential of wall to wall carpet beyond its surface application and their hinged joinery allows for modulation in the metaphoric cloud. A number of individual modules were strategically inserted to act as  stiffeners limiting the cloud’s curvature wherever needed.

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Creo

Project: Creo
Location: Mumbai
Area:279 Sq. Mt.
Status: Built
Design Team: Gurmeet Akali, Vinay Mathias


Mumbai like many other cities in the developing world is in constant flux, and as natures of economies change so do their their linked human and production related resources. With high monetary values riding on real estate development in Mumbai, projects like CREO are symptomatic of the typology of work that young firms in Mumbai are usually commissioned for. Situated in a beautiful space within a Victorian Gothic building Creo became for us a search for native latent human skill and mechanical resources that the city of Mumbai incubates which we could leverage for the production of Creo?s built form. The first process for us however was one of excavation and conservation uncovering the original construct of the malad stone arched facade and wooden joist ceiling that lay beneath layers of commercial signage and storage. We then designed a shopping module that fits tight by a staggered interlocking configuration into a central location on the ground and has a mirror image incorporating more display space at mezzanine level. The formal construct of our project hence becomes a logical outcome of incorporating program. Hence this creates a 4 meter tall performative sculptural installation within the space. The container stands out as does the contained. The production process involved using the dying skills of the ship building industry in the city (with the shifting of the port) for the steel structure of the construct and a rubberized polymer skin traditionally used by small scale toy manufactures in the production of children toys in the city. Hence Creo becomes both a formal manifestation of program as well as a projection of the city as a network of latent resources.