Chandigarh HQ
Location - Chandigarh, India
Built up - 4,000 sqm
Typology - Selected, ⁠⁠Commercial - High Rise & Mixed-use Development
Status - Proposed

Designed as a fusion of traditional Indian architecture and contemporary office space, the main objective of the project is to reduce heat gain and optimize façade opening ratio, ensuring no artificial lighting is required on a typical day. With this in mind, the design centres on an animated façade, which features a variation of opening ratios based on orientation, and at the same time it reflects Indian culture through its resemblance to the traditional screen. A rhombus pattern was used as a base and through iterative process various porosity patterns were generated from it to create different light conditions. This resulted in a variable opacity condition in the facade that had a dual purpose of creating performative architecture and also created variable openings on the facade in various orientations generating a design for the facade that is animating and has an inherent meaning. This resulting pattern morphs from 81% opacity on the north facade to 27% opacity on the south facade, with an intermediate opacity of 54% on East and 62% on west facade respectively. 

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