Designed by Sudhakar Pai Associates, Sattva Galleria is located on Bellary Road, which leads on to the Kempegowda International Airport in Bangalore, India. The Office cum Retail (ORC) building is equidistant from the city center and the airport. The building programme was aimed at the mixed-use format, allowing for quality retail on the lower floors and office spaces on the upper floors.

A design on the project started in 2009. At the crux of all design ideas was a creation of a simple, functional and responsive building that was not only efficient and sensitive to its surroundings, but also a piece of iconic architecture that reflected the city in spirit.
Exploded Axonometric
Located on a trapezoidal site, the building takes on the shape of a site to maximize the usable areas. The design intent to provide functional and usable rectangular floor plates for offices resulted in the triangular extensions on building rear forming circulation and service cores on all floors, and on the front as a podium of lower retail floors.
While the building form took cues from both need of preferred rectilinear floor plate as well as the angular site lines, the built form is imagined as a metaphor of a sailing ship. The solar shading ?sails? behave as brise soleil keeping out the harsh western sun while filtering slivers of north light that bounce off the inner wall surface onto the main workspaces. The sails are also punctuated with methodically placed smaller slits, a representation o...