MGB Headquarters’s Concept:
In Hyderabad?s dry, hot climate, the vast majority of office-goers are resigned to spending their entire day within the confines of air-conditioned spaces with very little access to fresh air from the outdoors. Hyderabad–a once laid-back town– is now a competitive cosmopolitan city, attracting many big-tech companies, who build millions of square feet of office space per year.
Very few of these new structures consider the local climate and cultural conditions in their design. Most of these new office buildings are sealed-off glass boxes that rely heavily on air conditioning to maintain a specific indoor temperature consistently throughout the year, whatever weather fluctuations Hyderabad?s seasons might bring: hot summers, pleasant monsoons, and tolerable winters. Photography by : Vivek Eadara Photography, Monika Sathe Photography
This building paradigm, mechanically controlled and indifferent to context, perpetuates a corporate office typology that first emerged post-WWII in North America, and which soon spread to anywhere hoping to participate in the new high-speed world economy.
photography by : Vivek Eadara Photography, Monika Sathe Photography
Tasked with repurposing an existing concrete framed structure on-site into an Auto dealership office headquarter, we focused on design elements that could optimize the building?s climate responsiveness [ in ways overlooked by the original design.]
To this end, we built on our practic...