Project Brief
We need to design Coffee table book of same size as DLF Cybercity Chennai Coffee Table Book for
DLF Downtown Project.
First cut - Digitally printed by Tuesday evening
We will share new Photographs for updation.
Final Delivery – Thursday evening - 20 digital copies
The CTB of existing Manpakkam to be used as a base template for design.
The page-wise comments are as below
Content of the CTB
Cover
DLF Downtown , Chennai Logo
1-2 Merged with page 5-6
3-4 The DLF Legacy
Visuals are fine
5-6 Where growth finds a partner
7-8 DLF DownTown
Overview ( Take it from the video or will share the video brief)
DLF’s flagship project in Chennai located at Taramani which is a prominent city centre
location. The site is a corner site with excellent visibility
9-10 Centrally Located Business Park ( Master plan )
11-12 Connected Workspaces
13-14 Continuous Landscape Experience
15-16 Vibrant heart
17-18 Seamlessly Connected
19-20 Amenities ( Collage of sports fields running tracks, auditorium, sports )
21-22 Designed by International Architects
Skidmore, Owings and merril LLP
23-24 Sustainability ( from Coffee table Book ) form Taramani perspective. Better Picture
Safety .. with some copy
25-26 ( from Coffee table Book ) form Taramani perspective.
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More details about the project
a. ESTABLISHED LOCATION:
o Introduction to Chennai
___ largest metropolitan city in India
Home to Fortune 500 companies, Automobile manufacturing hubs and
Electronics manufacturing cluster.
The first preference for BFSI, Automobile, Engineering and Product
development IT companies in India
A strong education base traditionally provides some of the best talent for
the industry
A perfect blend of tradition and technology
o IT Industry of Chennai
b. iPark LOCATION ADVANTAGE:
Well settled ecosystems in OMR (OMR is synonymous with Information Technology – IT).
iPark is located right at the beginning of IT Corridor with 10 mn sft on either side of iPark
(before iPark- IIT Research Park, Ascendas, TIDEL, TRIL, ETL, WorldBank) (after iPark –
RMZ I & II, SP infocity, KG365, Taichye Tower etc) with more than 200K employees
working
BFSI client operating in this location – BNY Mellon, Citibank, HDFC, Société Générale,
Bank of America, Word Bank, Fidelity, BNP Paribas and other global clients like Astra
Zeneca, Shell, Philips, Microsoft, Mckinsey, Amazon, GE, HPE, Caterpillar, Atos, E&Y,
Cisco, Qualcomm, Daimler, Verizon, Siemens, Ericsson, AT&T
Multiple schools, residential commodities, hotels, restaurants, weekend activity places,
hospitals etc which is already operational from location makes obvious choice for
professionals to make their home.
1. Residential: Adyar, Thiruvanmaiyur, Indira Nagar, Velachery , Besant Nagar,
Perungudi, OMR Stretch
2. Hotels: Holiday Inn, Westin, Novotel , My Fortune, Taj Gateway , Park Hyatt,
ITC Grand Chola, Leela Palace , Ramada
c. PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:
The site is in between Taramani MRTS Station and Thiruvanmaiyur MRTS Station (1 Kms
from site)
Well connected to Public road transportation with SRP Bus Stop, Taramani Bus Stop and
TIDEL Bus Stop in close vicinity
DLF can tie up with Private Shuttle operator and/or CMRL/MTRS (similar to DLF
Cybercity) from DLF iPark nearest MRTS Station and other key location
d. ACCESS POINTS:
Two way access – one from Velachery Taramani Road and another for CSIR Road
Access to the campus and building through walkover bridge from Velachery Taramani
Road
e. PROJECT I Park BRIEF:
DLF iPark, Taramani – Project Master Plan and Concept
0 The overall master plan of Taramani is being developed as a multi-block campus development
spread over 26 acres with wide internal roads, and inter-connected office blocks at the podium
level. The buildings have been designed with 2 levels of basement and 4 levels of podium for car
parking with office floors on the top of the podiums.
1 The project is planned keeping in mind Chennai hot temperature. Special façade strategy for
control of thermal exposure and natural daylight.
2 The master plan has been designed to keep the future trend of increasing employee mobility
through Ride Share and (Uber and Ola etc.) and thus have provided wider internal road in
straight line to facilitate visitors and cab drop –off on both sides of the buildings at the road level
i.e. Ground Floor, Atriums.
3 The entire amenities are planned at podium level 4 of the project which interconnected skywalks
and central amenities block. Thus, creating energy at the project at the road level Ground floor
and also a level 4 podium level. The drop-off shall happen and ground level wherein employees
shall take escalators for podium 4 levels with F&B offering.
4 The Central Amenities Block will be conceived as the Focal Point of the Entire IT Complex. This
Building is designed in essence to incorporate the F&B offerings like the Cyber Hub in Gurgaon.
In addition, this will be a large 1200 seater capacity Food court, Cafes, Quick Service Retail
outlets, Gymnasium, health & wellness center.
5 International renowned Architect SOM on board to ensure DLF iPark sets the benchmark for
Office Space in Chennai by future proofing it with efficient floors, ascetically pleasing elevations
and human connect Spaces
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f. Building Specification at DLF iPark Taramani
The buildings proposed has been designed as per NBC 2016 and with new-age specifications,
open and collaborative workspace requirements while keeping in view the latest of safety,
security and sustainability standards.
Rectangular Floor plate with central core and high efficiency. Minimum service footprint
towards the façade. Dedicated AHU for each quadrant to operate different operational
hours
Ground Floors to have the necessary amenities like Creche, Food Court, Gym
On 5th Floor to have exclusive terrace
Key building specification includes Platinum / Gold LEED USGBC Certified Project, 4.2 Floor to
Floor Height, 10 Meters Plus Column Span, 110 KV Grid power supply with AC Plant, DG
Plant, GIS Substation, with 11 KV Substation. The building specifications are attached in
presentation.
g. Amenities at DLF iPark Taramani
Food court, Standalone restaurants, Café, QSR’s etc…
Health and Wellness facility [Gym, Yoga Studio]
Creche / Play School
Banks and ATM
Sports Zone [Indoor and Outdoor]
Green walk Zones
Pharmacy / Clinics
Gift shop ,Salon etc…
