“We evolve the best when pushed to brink and design better when driven by constraints “. The site had a shrinking existing lake which we wanted to revitalize and do a sensible ecological objective. 43 % of existing water body left a very little space to place the road, mandatory green requirement and the building scale which duly justified the real estate viability of upper MIG housing in the city. The Big Idea was to celebrate the connect of water in Bengal and evolve the social and community places around the water body, provide for biodiversity and increase the biophilic quotient in design. Massing responds to wind movement and the geometric alignment preserves the required privacy needed in such high density developments. Care has been taken that utility / drying balconies don’t become a part of the elevation and spoil the visual congress of facade elements. An innovative concept of step out balcony as a continuous integrating feature solved our requirement of accommodating the AC outdoor units and also the need for my balcony green – an interesting pleasure in a Bengali.
