VALUELABS OFFICE COMPLEX
Hyderabad ( Built )
The brief called for the design of a software development facility for the 1500 people on a tight 2 acre site. The client was setting up it first work, culture and identity. A simple floor plate zoning of four recognizable quadrants that contained day lit office areas wrapped around a central cutout with skylights served to scale the workforce into smaller team that still belonged to the larger whole. The larger sense of 'Campus' was infused by the creation of a multi-volume climbing street spine cutting through all levels that formed ones pedestrian walk through the building, thus creating a large commmunity street where one would encounter the whole company. The building aesthetic is expressed in an interesting juxtaposition of large void and mass. The large glazed voids of the facade exhibit a mondrian like grid that permeates through the complex, creating a mosaic of color and glass. Vastu as required by the client was both a constraint and an ordering device.
