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Primus Senior Living
Bengaluru, India
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Primus Senior Living
Bengaluru, India
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Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2025
SIZE
5000 sqft - 10,000 sqft
The brief carried a quiet seriousness most projects don't. Not the first impression. Not the photograph. The thousandth morning. Senior living asks a different question than any other typology we have worked with: what does a space need to give someone, every single day, for the rest of their life, without ever announcing itself as care?
We began where we always do — by understanding what the residents' daily life actually required, before deciding what the interiors should look like.
The answer started with colour and material. We chose a palette of soothing, warm tones — nothing clinical, nothing that signals institution. Soft furnishings were selected for ergonomics first, comfort always, never at the cost of dignity. Every material decision had to serve two masters simultaneously: the practical needs of ageing bodies, and a sense of genuine warmth that doesn't read as compensation.
Lime plaster appears throughout — chosen not for texture alone but because it supports better air quality, an invisible decision that residents will never consciously notice and will always benefit from. Kota stone grounds the more heavily used surfaces, durable enough for daily life, handsome enough that durability never feels like the only reason it's there.
Bangalore is a garden city, and the site's relationship to that identity mattered to us. We shaped an eclectic tropical sensibility throughout — softening the boundary between indoor spaces and the greenery outside, so that residents are never fully removed from the natural world even within their own homes.
Designing for people who will live somewhere for the rest of their lives is a different kind of responsibility than designing a restaurant someone visits for two hours. It asks for restraint, not spectacle. It asks for warmth that holds up under repetition. We tried to give Primus a quality of calm that residents would still feel, undiminished, on their thousandth morning there.
We began where we always do — by understanding what the residents' daily life actually required, before deciding what the interiors should look like.
The answer started with colour and material. We chose a palette of soothing, warm tones — nothing clinical, nothing that signals institution. Soft furnishings were selected for ergonomics first, comfort always, never at the cost of dignity. Every material decision had to serve two masters simultaneously: the practical needs of ageing bodies, and a sense of genuine warmth that doesn't read as compensation.
Lime plaster appears throughout — chosen not for texture alone but because it supports better air quality, an invisible decision that residents will never consciously notice and will always benefit from. Kota stone grounds the more heavily used surfaces, durable enough for daily life, handsome enough that durability never feels like the only reason it's there.
Bangalore is a garden city, and the site's relationship to that identity mattered to us. We shaped an eclectic tropical sensibility throughout — softening the boundary between indoor spaces and the greenery outside, so that residents are never fully removed from the natural world even within their own homes.
Designing for people who will live somewhere for the rest of their lives is a different kind of responsibility than designing a restaurant someone visits for two hours. It asks for restraint, not spectacle. It asks for warmth that holds up under repetition. We tried to give Primus a quality of calm that residents would still feel, undiminished, on their thousandth morning there.
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