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Tessalace, Mohali

Mind Bogglers
Editorial Team
Author: Editorial Team
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This special section covers an out-of-the-box design with steel as an essential element of the design. The main aim of this section is to showcase how steel can be innovatively used in today’s world of architecture.

 

Here’s Ar Badrinath Kaleru & Prerna Kaleru, Founders, Studio Ardete, unveils their out-of-the-box design concept, that ought to turn the tables in the future…

The chances of a commercial building losing its identity in a sea of clones of glass and steel are quite high. Le Corbusier, however, managed to craft an entire city’s commercial and institutional complexes whilst imparting a unique character to each form. Tessalace is an endeavour in a similar direction – celebrating the materiality of concrete.

 

Location

Located in Sector 82, Mohali, an upcoming industrial area, this project is a commercial building with an objective to lease out typical floors as offices for corporates and IT organizations. However, the design intent was to craft a commercial building with a soul and distinct personality.

 

Design Features

The building earned the name, “Tessalace” owing to its tessellated façade design. Oxford dictionary defines, tessellate – as a pattern of repeated shapes, especially polygons that fit together closely without gaps or overlapping. Visibly, the structure of the building is enveloped in a membrane of tessellated polygons, an array of solid and voids in tones of grey and white.

The graphical RCC façade, abstract with acute angles pulled in different directions, is tied together homogeneously. The envelope is a tessellated composition of polygons highlighted with white MS flat members and an array of horizontal white MS members filling up some of the void polygons. The diversity of planes, some solid outlined in white, while the others screened spark curiosity and establish an instant engaging connection with the visitor.

Series of polygonal facets composed in a poetic fashion impart a vivid and distinct persona to the building. The Tessalace rises as a torchbearer of contextual response amidst the sea of look-alike, mundane and dreary commercial buildings.

 

Architect’s Interpretation:

“The building earned the name, “Tessalace” owing to its tessellated façade design. Oxford dictionary defines, tessellate – as a pattern of repeated shapes, especially polygons that fit together closely without gaps or overlapping. The Tessa lace rises as a torchbearer of contextual response amidst the sea of look-alike, mundane and dreary commercial buildings.  “

Ar Badrinath Kaleru&PrernaKaleru, Founders, Studio Ardete

 

Fact File

Architect: Studio Ardete Pvt Ltd

Structural Consultant: Continental Foundations

PMC: R S Builders

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