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Project • By PLASMA STUDIO • Offices
Ordos 20+10
Plasma has been selected among some of the leading Chinese and China-based international offices for the next phase of development in Ordos, Inner Mongolia. After the shortcomings of Ordos 100 (lack of cohesiveness, contextual relationships and overall identity) became clear, the local planning authority sought to explore new ways of procuring innovative and high quality architecture through the establishment of codes and rules. Each architect has been given a series of virtual volumes of which 75% of the vertices need to be retained. Plasma opted for a strategy that highlights and contrasts the Cartesian nature of the cubes with an expressive ground and internal core strategy.
Given the fact that the ground is very loose and in many... More
Project • By Merge Studio • Offices
Karle Town Centre: SEZ Office Buildings
As part of a 3.6 million sq.ft. SEZ development in the city of Bangalore, the first tower of roughly 360,000 sf is now well under construction with the 12 story (G+11) structure topped off. Merge Studio was engaged to lead the design of this speculative office building. A key feature of the project has been it's facade, which is designed with passive environmental strategies to enhance the overall energy performance of the building. From the outset, three essential goals were established for the facade design; high performance, timeless aesthetics and efficient constructability.
Merge studio lead the collaboration of an international team of consultants between New York, Bangalore, Chennai and Mumbai to deliver design and documentation f... More
Project • By Merge Studio • Offices
Jashn (Corporate HQ Building)
Jashn, a hindi/urdu word for 'celebration' describes the mood of the project. The five story, 30,000 sf. building is designed to house the head-quarters of an established real-estate developer in the city of Chennai. The building will house marketing and executive offices and in essence become the home for the developers' management group
Merge Studio was asked to develop a design that would demonstrate the design and construction capabilities of the clients and become the new home that the occupants can be proud of. Nestled in the heart of Chennai and at a corner of narrow tree-lined streets, our studio designed the shimmering 'jewel box' (as we like to call it) and clad it in shades of white transparency.
Aware of the challenge of d... More