Concrete Void ? Vijay Transtech Factory / Sameep Padora & Associates
The factory is located on a plot in a logistical warehousing facility on the outskirts of Mumbai. As is typical of most industrial warehouses in the area, the default construction material for most buildings is corrugated metal sheathing and the general prevalent built form is opaque without visual or physical connection to the immediate environment, thus turning the precinct into a continuous hard edge.
© Edmund Sumner
Architects: Sameep Padora & Associates
Location: Bhiwandi, Maharashtra, India
Design Team: Harshat Verma, Aparna Dhareshwar, Sandeep Patwa Assisted by: Sagar Kudtarkar, Parth Patel
Structural Consultant: Rajeev Shah
Area: 2000.0 m2
Project Year: 2018
Photographs: Edmund Sumner, Sameep Padora
© Edmund Sumner
Text description provided by the architects. The factory is located on a plot in a logistical warehousing facility on the outskirts of Mumbai. As is typical of most industrial warehouses in the area, the default construction material for most buildings is corrugated metal sheathing and the general prevalent built form is opaque without visual or physical connection to the immediate environment, thus turning the precinct into a continuous hard edge.Our first instinct was to position the project as relief from the experience of this existing impervious precinct mass. On the North-West corner of our site, a portion prone to seasonal flooding we consolidated a...
© Edmund Sumner
Architects: Sameep Padora & Associates
Location: Bhiwandi, Maharashtra, India
Design Team: Harshat Verma, Aparna Dhareshwar, Sandeep Patwa Assisted by: Sagar Kudtarkar, Parth Patel
Structural Consultant: Rajeev Shah
Area: 2000.0 m2
Project Year: 2018
Photographs: Edmund Sumner, Sameep Padora
© Edmund Sumner
Text description provided by the architects. The factory is located on a plot in a logistical warehousing facility on the outskirts of Mumbai. As is typical of most industrial warehouses in the area, the default construction material for most buildings is corrugated metal sheathing and the general prevalent built form is opaque without visual or physical connection to the immediate environment, thus turning the precinct into a continuous hard edge.Our first instinct was to position the project as relief from the experience of this existing impervious precinct mass. On the North-West corner of our site, a portion prone to seasonal flooding we consolidated a...
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