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Press Kit | no. 1432-33
Press release only in English
Cielo is a compact residential building in Nagpur city, Maharashtra India.
On a relatively small site of 900 sq.m. a total buildable area of 3600 sq.m. is built based upon the prevalent rules & client requirements.
The mandatory open spaces on all sides generates a buildable area of only 270 sq.m. at each floor.
A single 3 bedroom apartment is planned at each floor in this 12 storeyed building.
The 3 bedrooms are located on 3 corners with the kitchen forming the 4th corner to facilitate cross ventilation in each room. The living spaces are centrally located to form the focal social interaction space.
Nagpur forms the geographical center of India with extensive summers and temperature in excess of 40°C for 8 months annually.
Taking cognizance of this climate each of the main rooms opens into 2 balcony spaces, one open and one screened. This helps to reduce heat gain substantially, simultaneously providing sheltered open spaces to each room.
The screened bays are designed as sectional curves, forming a screen at the lower level & curving outwards to form a balcony at the upper level. These sectionally curved screens alternate horizontally & vertically across the building, providing protection from heat, forming green open spaces for each room & lending a sculptural quality to the building. These screens allude to the architectural heritage of the region where screens have existed since the 17th century.
Cielo is designed to create naturally cross ventilated spaces that are sheathed in response to the climate. The lifecycle carbon footprint is reduced substantially by the design that includes an entire solar panel roof, water harvesting & recycling in addition to the screened envelope to mitigate heat gain and reduce air-conditioning cost.
Project Name: Cielo
Project Type: Residential
No. of Floors: G+12
Location: Nagpur, Maharashtra, India
Commencement Date: August 2021
Completion Date: January 2026
Client Name: Prestige Builders
Construction Company: Prestige Builders
Size of the Project: 38,750 sq.ft. (3600 sq.m.)
Cost of the Project: 14 Crores INR (15,38,461 USD)
Design Company: Sanjay Puri Architects
Lead Architect: Mr. Sanjay Puri
Design Team: Ruchika Gupta, Nikita Dusing, Krishna Leela, Neha Wadodkar, Diganta Gujaran, Chanchari Malviya
Consultants:
Structural Consultant – Patankar Consultants
Façade work – Flexstone
Photo credits: Mr. Vinay Panjwani
Sanjay Puri Architects have been ranked No 32 in Archello Amsterdam’s list of the Top 100 Architects worldwide. Archdaily, Architizer, New York & WA UK include the firm in their lists of the Top 100 architects in the world.
Winning the world building of the year 2024 by World Architects Switzerland, winning the Most Sustainable Architecture Firm of the Year by Architizer New York, winning the Practice of the Year by A&D Perspective Hong Kong. Sanjay Puri Architects have won over 540 awards including 400 international architecture awards.
Sanjay has been on the juries of the World Architecture Festival, Plan Awards Italy, Architecture Review Awards UK, Dezeen UK, Architizer New York, INDE Awards, Australia, Inscape Awards South Africa, The Architecture Hunter Awards Canada.
The firm’s work has been published over 2000 times in over 200 publications across the world.
Currently the firm with a team of 108 professionals is involved in over 200 projects in 55 cities.
Evolving design solutions that are contextual & sustainable with architecture that explores spatial perceptions of innovative explorations forms the essence of the firm’s philosophy.
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