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Project Facts –

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.