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This document provides details about a residential apartment building called Duplexes Architecture RED located in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. The 17,000 square foot building was designed in 2014 by ArchitectureRED and contains 11 exclusive apartments, including 5 spacious duplex units and 6 compact 3-bedroom units. The design team aimed to create a sense of community within the building by giving each unit its own unique characteristics in terms of size, volume, orientation and position. The angular floor plates and use of voids allow natural light and ventilation while also providing views and shaded outdoor spaces.

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Site Plan 0702arun19-Model - PDF 4

This document provides details about a residential apartment building called Duplexes Architecture RED located in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. The 17,000 square foot building was designed in 2014 by ArchitectureRED and contains 11 exclusive apartments, including 5 spacious duplex units and 6 compact 3-bedroom units. The design team aimed to create a sense of community within the building by giving each unit its own unique characteristics in terms of size, volume, orientation and position. The angular floor plates and use of voids allow natural light and ventilation while also providing views and shaded outdoor spaces.

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DUPLEXS ARCHITECTURE RED

Architects: ArchitectureRED

Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu

Design Team: Biju Kuriakose, Kishore Panikkar,


Kani Pandian, Yasir Azami,
Preetha John,
Apoorva Madhusudhan

Area: 17000 sqft

Project Year: 2014

Function: Residence/Apartment
 DESIGN INTENT

 The intent emphasizes the need to create a small diverse community


within the building.

 The building’s 17,000 square feet floor area facilitates 11 exclusive


apartments, five of which are spacious 3-Bedroom Duplexes; six are
compact 3-Bedroom units, with the density limitations determined by the
lot’s size and location.

 Each dwelling incepts a sense of place to its own resident varying by size,
volume, orientation and position within the building.

 These versatile dwellings fused together to sustain the integrity, conceiving


a pure mass to perceive the community in totality, was the challenge at
hand.
 FORM EVOLUTION:

 The versatile nature of each dwelling


being embraced on the form evolution
by consciously intervening the pure
geometry.
 Marginally twisting the alternative floor
masses across the street axis
strengthens the perception of distinct
edges to demonstrate prominence of
every dwelling, the building uses the
opportunity to create a powerful visual
statement, capitalizing on the views
from the junction.
 To heighten the sense of identity, another
layer of material contrast, a louvered mass
plugged into the volume along the
marginally twisted axis, creating a
dramatic spatial demarcation along the
exterior, where the light and shade
creating dynamic special experience
internally, varying in every unit.

 The double-height living volumes in the


duplexes take advantage of these louvered
staggering masses that create changing
patterns on the wall surfaces, through the
day.
 OTHER ELEMENTS:

 The consciously created voids allow each unit to enjoy the views out onto
two sides of the building, allowing for well-ventilated and amply lit homes.

 The angular floor plates create recesses and cantilevers in the floors above
and below, giving rise to shaded belts along the threshold of the building,
climatically responding to the context.

 Entrances to all units face each other and semi-private entry courts have
been created, that are bathed in light from the adjacent light wells, serving
as luxurious foyers for chance interaction between neighbours and others.

 By placing the building raised above the ground, the volume provides a relief
from the immediate context and wrapped with void, allows direct access to
the habitats and parking, creating an external perception which allows the
mass to float and define a strong skyline against the universal backdrop.
THANK YOU

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