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GYS Vision
Location: Gurgaon, India of a stack of cuboidal volumes and sq.ft each for the twin towers. waste water from the complex
a series of attached open spaces, To address the environmental • 31.5% reduction in EPI over GRIHA
Type: Commercial
translated as a series of cascading issues that concern the contemporary benchmark (50% reduction on
Built-up Area: 18,00,000 sq.ft
voids- forming sky gardens that spiral office, orientation is optimized in general baseline buildings)
Site area: 10.5 Acres
along the entire height of the building. the creation of built volumes. The
Interweaving open social spaces Status: Under Construction
The site houses three towers, one façade strategy for both the identical
2. Structure
• 5 meters Cantilevers extending
Architectural Firm: Morphogenesis
and closed workspaces Client: Dignity Buildcon
unique and two twin. While the unique
tower marks a paradigm shift of the
towers focuses on reducing the solar
gain while providing maximum views
from column edge to enable
terrace gardens
• Helideck on main tower
Sonali Rastogi and Rahat Varma, Morphogenesis • Structural planning as per Seismic
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zone 4
ith the rapid increase to global construction technologies disconnect from the outside • Under-slab drainage system for
of urban density in our and awareness of architectural style environment. On closely investigating efficient structure
cities and land being a vocabularies. It would not be wrong to the concept of piling volumetric • Usage of sub-soil water for building
major constraint, we need to look for state that skyscrapers have come to functions, one on top of the other, one requirement
solutions that allow the city to expand. be commonly identified with worldwide might realize that this could give birth
3. MEP
High-rise is a response to the paucity economic and cultural integration and to a number of elevated flat planes.
• 100% recycled water for landscape
of land, with a direct relationship a collapse of boundaries. Whether These planes could be designed so as
and cooling towers demand
between compact living and tall it is stacking of function or services, to create new ground that enhances
• 35 KW of electricity through
buildings. As a design ideology, the we need to ensure that this stacking the indoor-outdoor experience of the
renewable energy sources
high-rise typology of construction has along with architectural briefs must building’s inhabitants. To elaborate
• Increased fresh air volume to
often been seated centre stage at a augment the socio-cultural lifestyle of on the concept more, we look closely
improve air quality
number of architectural discourses. its users. at the GYS Vision project in Gurgaon
• Heat recovery wheel installed to
At this stage today, India is a At the same time, an increased by Morphogenesis. The scheme was
minimize energy losses
rapidly growing economy and there distance from the ground plane should developed as a direct response to
is a palpable increase in exposure not have to imply a proportionate reinterpret and improve the design