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The Architecture of the Chimes Building, Gurgaon is about creating public spaces that are accessible and enable
\nthe experience of nature within the spaces of the building, symbolizing life inside the building. The design of the
\nbuilding addresses issues of sustainability, sociability, making room for nature, and program flexibility. The
\nbuilding mass is specially developed to demonstrate a novel solution for a multi-tenanted office building with
\nfloor plate size flexibility to create a mix of tenants from various service sectors and industries. To create a high
\nprofile address, it was envisioned to organize each floor as potentially heterogeneous open-plan environments
\nthat can be combined or be separated by user requests with controlled indoor environments and amenities to
\nsuit a variety of needs for large and small businesses organized to share common community resources set up in
\nthe building.
\nSpatial Planning
\nThe design of the building emphasizes diversity of all kinds: juxtapositions of people, functions, built forms,
\nspaces, and activities are just some of the fundamental elements that help encourage an inclusive and sustainable
\npublic sphere that thrives at all times of the day and night. The building is raised up from the ground on pilotis,
\nallowing free-flowing open spaces under the building shaded from the harsh sun, with a variety of water pools
\nand guided streams cooling the air, and plants growing within and around the building on the site to cool the
\nground. A variety of public spaces are created at ground level that is accessible, shaded and close to nature. These
\nspaces encourage serendipitous meetings, foster community engagement and active participation in urban work
\nlife.
\nAt the ground, the concept of openness, spaces flowing together, plays a major factor in the design. The public
\nareas including a restaurant\/caf\u00e9 are located on the ground floor, with smaller spaces to encourage people to
\nmeet spontaneously for coffee or for informal meetings. Various spaces for public functions are offered- an open
\nair performing arts theatre, a cafeteria and a future exhibition space, and a restaurant. A number of available
\nconference rooms, meeting lounges form a complete sociable and efficient center for the complex to respond to
\nall nature of business requirements. Sky terraces attached to each floor plate connect to nature during the work
\nday.
\nThe Visuality and Sociability of the Journey path
\nTo maximize the use of green spaces and the views from within and outside and make use of the ground,
\notherwise lost to building footprint, the design places the gardens around glass-lined movement corridors and
\nStaircase cores. The journey path through the spaces of the building, Lift lobbies, holding areas, social spaces,
\ncafeteria and reception are located along the way and designed as people places that suggest the idea of diverse
\nexperience of graded light and shaded spaces, landscape variation to include plant and animal life (etched into
\nthe stone surfaces), air, earth, and water as part of each of the pauses and transition experiences. Visual
\nconnections are made through glass courtyards, corridors, and lobbies, together with the complex
\ninterconnections and interpenetrations of interior spaces, the interplay of light and choices of just a few material
\nfinishes. The symbolism of the landscape and the architectural artifact are intended to enliven the whole
\nensemble.
\nForm Development and Building Fa\u00e7ades
\nThe form development follows the idea of raising the building on pilotis to relieve the ground and give back the
\nlandscape to the ground- creating a sociable and welcoming space of the entrance reception- a glass cube set in a
\nwater garden, using plants as tree cover and water as climate modulators. A variety of water bodies and plants
\ngrowing around the and inside the building to cool the ground, and transform it into a space with positive energy,
\nshaded social spaces, and graded light, open spaces and light wells working as courtyards that relieve the bulk of
\nthe form and supply natural light to the inside of the office floor plates.
\nFlexible Floor Plates
\nThe floor plates are modular, independently equipped with amenities\/ facilities for modern office requirements
\nand can be combined into heterogeneous open plan environments to suit a variety of needs for a mix of large and
\nsmall businesses sharing common community resources set up in the building. With this profile, the flexibility in floor plate size makes for best possible marketing to create a mix of tenants from various service sectors and
\nindustries
\nRegulating Heat Gain- Solar Facade
\nThe Fa\u00e7ade design is guided by its visibility and response to the street corner, visibility from the surrounding
\nspaces and the main roads and to the climatic considerations of the solar path, Natural Light penetration and
\nBreezes. It is equally about imaging a sensible notion of contemporariness, with formal and material choice that
\necho the historic form of massive Indian wall making that rejects heat and the high sun, but allows filtered natural
\nlight. The North allows light, but rejects reflected heat, the ribbon windows on the west, east and south faces are
\nset high on the floor plate to allow the deeper penetration of a limited amount of the harsher western and
\nsouthern light, but freely allows internal courtyard reflected light and North light to penetrate the plates through
\nlarge treated glass surfaces. The heat gain thus reduced is further mitigated by the use of use of heat reflective
\npaint and the insulated wall section.
\nA number of strip windows in the otherwise massive walls are used to visually connect the interior and the
\nexterior and is mitigated by the use of anti-dazzle e-glass so people do not lose touch with the natural
\nenvironment while at work. Outsiders get curious glimpses of light and activity through the fa\u00e7ade that activates
\nthe otherwise solid building as a place of action.
\nSustainable \u0093Carbon Footprint\u0094: The architecture is used to develop the building marked by energy efficiency,
\n0perational convenience, low operational cost and optimized investment costs. It focuses not only on the fa\u00e7ade,
\nsun shading, and lighting details but above all, also on minimizing the energy consumption of the building while
\noptimizing natural light consumption. The building is glazed on the benign North face and on shaded facades with
\nhigher performance glass responsive to the conditions. On exposed and direct heat receiving faces a solar fa\u00e7ade
\nof small openings set up high on the floor allow less direct heat and maximizes penetrations of light into the plate.
\nParking and Transportation: The insatiable demand for parking is met by the provision for a double stack parking
\nsystem (that addresses the needs of commuters), extra capacity preferred parking spaces for car poolers, and
\nparking for the electric shuttle to connect with the future metro nearby. This facilitates an office building without
\nvisible cars and frees the ground to landscape and a pleasing outdoor environment.
\nReturning the Ground to Landscape: The building consists four interconnected floor plate blocks of varied size
\nand scale organized around climate-modifying, natural-light-giving courtyards. These floor plates are
\nindependently equipped with amenities\/ facilities for all modern office requirements.
\nContextual Responses
\nModular Back-Up Generation
\nThermal Storage Chillers
\nSecurity and Surveillance
\nIndependent Controlled Floors
\nReplenishing Ground Water
\nRecycling Waste and Water
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