James Law’s Cybertecture Egg for Mumbai

Buildings are no longer about concrete, steel and glass… many incorporate cutting-edge technologies, sustainable materials and design principles based on forward-thinking models of social interaction and the ‘human experience’ of space.

This project is a Cybertecture office building that brings together Iconic Architecture, Environmental Design, Intelligent Systems, and New Engineering to create the most innovative building for the city of Mumbai and for India in the 21st Century. The building is comissioned by Vijay Associates (Wadhwa) Developers, a group known for delivering creations par excellence.

The concept for this building is inspired by planet earth. A sustainable ecosystem is derived from an integrated and seamless Cybertecture that evolves to provide the building’s inhabitants with the very best space to work in.

The form of the architecture is one that symbolizes with optimism about the future and of the 21st Century. The symbolic planet form is stretched to accommodate the available footprint and optimize space for 13 levels of premium offices. This Egg is further orientated and skewed at an angle to create both a strong visual language as well as to alleviate the solar gain of the building. By using this Egg shape, compared to a conventional building, this building has approximately 10-20% less surface area. The architecture is sleek and computer designed, with engineering that creates a building of extremely high quality and geometric sophistication.

This building will act like a  jewel for the new Central Business District of Mumbai, and a worthy neighbor to the esteemed neighboring buildings of the district. Within the building, an innovative structure derived from the skin of the egg creates up to 30m spans of column-less floors. Innovative Cybertecture Technologies within the buildings system empower people to communicate and work in a better way.

DETAILS
Location: India
District: Mumbai
Use: Office
Site Area: ~6676 sq.m.
Bldg. Area: ~4025 sq.m.
Gross Floor Area: ~32000 sq.m.
Bldg. Coverage Ratio: ~60%
Gross Floor Ratio: ~80%
Bldg. Scale: Stories above Ground : 14 Levels
Stories below Ground : 3 Levels
Structure: Reinforced Concrete and Steel Structure
Max. Height: ~62m
Landscape Area: ~2800 sq.m.
Parking Lot: ~450 Lots
Exterior Finish: Curtain Wall

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