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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