Reliance Energy Headquarters

Mumbai, India, 2005 (In development)

This corporate headquarters is proposed as a garden city. The program includes commerical offices and corporate living, accommodates an existing curvilinear building, and calls for preservation of all of the major trees on site. The company also requested an architectural branding platform that reflects its corporate mission, "Growth is Life." In response, the structure is designed as a high LEED standard headquarters, utilizing regional materials and energy efficient technology. The complex are conceived as a series of curved structures, surrounding a central garden. This public space also serves as a division between the working and living environments. The multi-tiered composition of the buildings provides outdoor terraces, roof gardens and courtyards for purpose of day-lighting. The facades include a variety of hybrid energy efficient devices - photovoltaic/LED panels, trellis structures, canopies, light shelves, and arcades - that create a pattern of horizontal ribbons. These tiered elements also produce aesthetically pleasing light and shadow patterns on all the adjacent walls.