Officestudio

Site and ProgramThe site is a small plot of land on a busy road full of large hotels and malls. The size of the site, along with its highly urban neighbourhood, meant that the building could be visually lost and dwarfed by the surrounding urban scape. The program was to create an office building which would be distinct and create a visual identity for the organisation, and also allow for a dense building program. Design StrategyThe site had many constraints due to the local development rules, which disallowed a basement for parking for a site of this size, yet posed stringent rules on the amount of parking to be provided per unit of occupiable space and also limited the height of the building to 15 m due to fire regulations. Hemant Pat... More