Contemporary apartment 115 m2
Arhitect / Designer : LINES Design Bureau
Artem Alekseev
Artem Alekseev
Locatie : Saint Petersburg, Rusia
Smriti 57 Mumbai
Smriti 57 Mumbai Smriti 57 is located on a small plot of 470 Sqm within the residential neighbourhood of Juhu, a western suburb of Mumbai. Owing to the project being the Architect’s own residence, the building is an exploration in alternative technologies of construction, challenging norms, time cycles as well as affordability of traditional R.C.C structures as against structural steel. Steel as a construction material offers tremendous flexibility in planning, speed of construction as well as an opportunity in expressing ‘structural aesthetics’. Each floor plate admeasuring 10 Mts x 16 Mts, rest’s on only four steel columns, 450 mm in diameter, braced intermittently by 600 mm deep ‘I’ beams with galvanized deck sheets as slabs. The system itself could be imagined as a ‘chest’ on four legs with 6 shelves. Given the simplified appearance of the external structure, the interiors are fairly deceptive. The Grid over six floors in broken down into a guest floor on th...
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