Badshahpur IT Park

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Badshahpur IT Park

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Badshahpur IT Park
Architects: 10 DESIGN
Location: Badshahpur, Gurgaon, India
Project
Leader: Gordon
Affleck, Kishor Lad
Project
Team: Nigel
Height, Lukasz Wawrzenczyk, Abraham Fung
Landscape
Team: Ewa
Koter, Matthew Younger, Ibrahim Diaz
Project
Year: 2012
GFA: 150,000 sqm²

Badshahpur is located in Gurgaon – one of the largest cities in the Indian
state of Haryana, and a major satellite of Delhi. Gurgaon has experienced rapid development
over the last 20 years; attracting both regional and global institutions to its
infrastructure offering, proximity to the Capital, and for its growth as a hub
of information technology, research and development, and engineering. This success has come with the support of a
growing number of technology-geared educational institutions in and around the
state.

The Badshahpur IT Park is a
campus of ten buildings, set across a sinuous series of adjacent plots of
varied ownership. The challenge was to
create a common identity across the site, a hierarchy of amenity spaces, and a
strategy for future expansion (or contraction) of the campus. The ambition was to create a vibrant and
inclusive work environment that meets the expectations of today’s IT graduate
candidate / employee, and the employers that seek to attract the same talent.

External finishes and the
landscaping layout use a common language to create distinct identities for
groups of buildings. Mimicking the
sinuous nature of the site, a series of ribbon forms navigate the campus
defining a series of outdoor areas – smaller areas servicing a cluster of
buildings, and larger, delivering functions for the campus as a whole. The largest space sees the ribbon forms
converging to create annexes and spill out areas for the campus canteen,
fitness gyms, nurseries and similar amenities.
Smaller outdoor spaces offer simpler functions such informal meeting and
greeting areas, as well as shading and seating for groups or individuals.

Planting as well as each of
the ribbons that travel across the site create an individual identity to various
areas of the site, and therefore establish a form of passive way-finding
between the buildings of the campus. Having
the elevations of the buildings mimic the forms within the landscape would
hopefully assist in making the landscape become part of the work environment –
a place to have informal discussions, or take walking breaks from workstations.

Building heights vary across
the overall site owing to its make up from sub-plots and ownerships. Equally building footprints varied in response
the sites undulations. It was necessary
to create a flexible façade module that would work across the varying buildings
such that they would all read as a family, whilst also responding to
opportunities such as views across the site, the creation of bridge links
between buildings, and key vistas from road level approaches. The resultant design of elevations seeks to
split the masses of the buildings into two intertwined volumes - one of stone,
and one of glass – thus allowing common masses across the varying scales of
building.

A number of modular cladding components (based on a 1500mm width) were
developed to offer deep reveals (to building faces prone to solar gain),
curtain walling, balconies, etc. The overall mass of the building forms
was reduced by the articulation of these components, also creating an
opportunity to reiterate the ribbon forms and concepts within the landscape. The result is that the intertwined volumes
continue across the buildings of the site as if pieces of a larger volume.
Interlayers to the double glazing of the curtain walling again reduce solar
gain; the same interlayers have varied opacities to create variation across the
façade, with the opportunity to create large super graphic imagery across the
faces of the buildings. Internally, blinds and operable windows allow
additional passive control over the working environment.

The deep reveals and flush spandrel units [across the curtain walling] allow
the facade lighting fixtures to be discreet and protected from local dust-storms.
Similarly, the detailing of the facade attempts to design-out gaps and ledges
(whilst considering local building tolerances), in order to reduce maintenance.
The forms and themes continue into key interior areas of the scheme, where
reception desks, waiting areas, and way-finding, embrace the themes within the
architecture and landscape.

The client’s aim was to bring
concepts that exist in some of the campuses of the West - from the hot beds of
technology and innovation in California - to the meet the growing demands of
the expanding Indian IT sector. The
Badshahpur IT Park creates a unifying architectural concept around the
amenities, open working environments, creating pathways, plazas and break-out spaces. A place that global visitors will recognise
as a modern international working environment, where regional talent can
flourish, and new ideas can be generated and shared.

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