Drawing clues from vernacular architecture, while respecting nature and culture, this sustainable and efficient design provides 75% of the work stations with daylight and external views, allowing inhabitants to enjoy seasons, weather conditions and to connect with the time of the day.

Balance with Change
The needs of the client were growing and changing almost from week to week during the design process. There was a need to create a transformational system that by its very nature was less specific and more general! It led to the creation of a simple arrangement of Server Spaces and Served Spaces. The Served Spaces cover the lion’s share of the campus where people work. These are in fact flexible and adaptive cold shells that can accommodate modular walls and furniture systems. They can re-invent and re-define themselves whenever needed, almost continuously! These are served by more rigid cores that house wet areas, utility shafts, ducts, fire stairs, elevators, entry and reception areas that will not change over time. “Modules” like the silo fire stairs; the benchmark glass cylinders and the 8.4 by 8.4 meter modules that can be used like a Lego Set and moved about in one’s mind to create internal and external spaces. Then there were the elemental problems of enclosure, for which horizontal louvers, APC cladding and glass were selected; and, the problems of shelter for which over-hanging copper roofs were selected. So the design analysis involved designing the motifs (cylinders, water bodies, Deepasthum, and gardens); inventing the components or modules and creating elements that tie all of these together.