World Architecture Fest honours Sanjay Puri for cutting-edge design of ‘The Street’
The architect’s work for ‘The Street’ drew praise from the jury for its contextual design and energy efficiency.
By ET Bureau |
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The recently concluded World Architecture Festival (WAF) in Amsterdam marked a momentous win yet again for Sanjay Puri.
Puri’s low-rise student hostel won top honours over competing designs from New York, London, Singapore, Malaysia and Australia by Zaha Hadid Architects, Wilkinson Eyre and others.
Puri’s work for ‘The Street’ drew praise from the jury for its contextual design and energy efficiency. The designer is now a seven-time award winner at WAF and the only Indian architectural firm to get this accolade.
Inspired by the old streets of Mathura, where this project is located, the 800-room students’ hostel creates organic spaces. Four-storey high with five linear blocks, the organic layout of the buildings characterises each space within the site. The colours accentuate different blocks and the facilities within.
The use of rain water harvesting, water recycling and solar panels make the project energy efficient, along with the orientation and facilitation of natural ventilation. ‘The Street’ is contextual to the climate and the orientation of the site, thus creating varied experiences and changing perceptions of space in each part of the sixacre site.
The avant-garde architect is also fostering transformation in Indian architecture, acting as a curator for The Economic Times Architecture and Design Summit 2019.
As one of the change-making curators, Puri will not just help decipher where the design fraternity stands today, but also where the needle will move. After all, understanding the future of design is as important as fully grasping its present.
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Puri’s low-rise student hostel won top honours over competing designs from New York, London, Singapore, Malaysia and Australia by Zaha Hadid Architects, Wilkinson Eyre and others.
Puri’s work for ‘The Street’ drew praise from the jury for its contextual design and energy efficiency. The designer is now a seven-time award winner at WAF and the only Indian architectural firm to get this accolade.
Inspired by the old streets of Mathura, where this project is located, the 800-room students’ hostel creates organic spaces. Four-storey high with five linear blocks, the organic layout of the buildings characterises each space within the site. The colours accentuate different blocks and the facilities within.
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The use of rain water harvesting, water recycling and solar panels make the project energy efficient, along with the orientation and facilitation of natural ventilation. ‘The Street’ is contextual to the climate and the orientation of the site, thus creating varied experiences and changing perceptions of space in each part of the sixacre site.
The avant-garde architect is also fostering transformation in Indian architecture, acting as a curator for The Economic Times Architecture and Design Summit 2019.
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As one of the change-making curators, Puri will not just help decipher where the design fraternity stands today, but also where the needle will move. After all, understanding the future of design is as important as fully grasping its present.
Giving the structure company are some other weird buildings...
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