JSL Corporate Office
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Climate: Composite
Built- Up Area: 92,500 Sq Ft
A synthesis of tradition and modernity, the design of a six-storey office building for one of the largest steel manufacturers in India invokes the "navagraha mandala," a nine-square cosmograph that inscribes a man in a yogic pose in almost Vitruvian fashion. The sacred grid is extruded to a platonic cube, which is subsequently morphed to create an intricate composition of joints and planes.