Building , Corporate , Environment , Livability , Masterplanning Maker Maxity, Mumbai By Manit Rastogi Maker Maxity is truly a microcosm of a Smart City – where Morphogenesis departed from a traditional Master Planning approach to one of Urban Design. The horizontal plane has been designed for walkability, and with a focus on public art & sculpture, both rare conditions in India today. The offices and other buildings integrate strongly with the landscape, through plazas and squares crafted as an integral part of the lands ...
Building , Built Environment , Facade , Glare , Light , Morphology , Research , Sustainability Maximizing Daylight in Office Spaces and Dealing with Glare By Rahat Varma The modern workplace is undergoing a paradigm shift of changes in usage patterns and longevity of working hours. We as architects and interior designers need to design space such that the users are more comfortably integrated with their physical surroundings at the workplace. A big contributing factor towards indoor comfort, are the lighting levels. Le Corbusier identified the significance of light in architecture best when he ...
Building , Commercial , Corporate , Morphology , Sustainability Vertical Architecture By Rahat Varma With the rapid increase of urban density in our cities and land being a major constraint there is a need to look out for solutions that allow our cities to expand and not implode. High rise is a response to the paucity of land, without a doubt, tall buildings and compact living may be directly related. As a design ideology the high rise typology of construction has often been seated centre stage at a number of architectural di ...
Building , Built Environment , Climate , Corporate Building Information Modeling: Revit By Munazza Akhtar with Rahat Varma Morphogenesis is going digital in a flash BIM is about taking the tools and workflows that people have been using and changing them to be a more transparent and collaborative, resulting in making the work process much easier. Understanding the benefits, Morphogenesis set out to implement BIM and adopted the Autodesk Re ...
Building , Workplace #ConstructionUpdate: Shoring Technique By Tanvangi Asthana An interesting shoring technique which we got to work with, for a multi-storey office building in Noida. The soil type in Noida is loamy and construction site has high water table. Such a combination of soil type and high water table creates the possibility of collapse (cave-in) of trench walls at the time of excavation. Hence, the shoring technique has to be designed to retain earth, water and adjacent structures. The b ...