Sky Courts
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Sanjay Puri has triumphed as the Overall Winner at the MIPIM Architectural Review Future Project Awards, scooping the prize for Mumbai’s Sky Courts apartment tower. Now in their 12th year, the MIPIM Architectural Review Future Project Awards are the only competition focusing exclusively on future projects. The project is intended to create distinctive housing with large, open plan spaces and open rooms.
Organic in character, the high rise structure has been designed to contrast with the repetitive nature of nearby building designs. The project forms a rectilinear block, which rises to create a four level parking podium and garden before transforming into a monolithic vertical mass with deep punctuations. Meanwhile, the building’s garden is elevated higher than a nearby flyover and arterial road, and the rooftop features landscaped and community spaces.
The site is located along an arterial city road, which earlier housed industries and textile mills. A decade ago, all these mills were relocated and the entire area is undergoing a rapid transformation with high-rise residential and commercial buildings, in close proximity.
Since the immediate surroundings are very dense with buildings that will eventually look into each other, the entire plan is created with large open spaces within each house into which all rooms open. The design concept of the apartments is intended to echo a traditional Indian courtyard, with each featuring a series of courts and connecting rooms, which are all cross ventilated, benefiting from the natural ventilation of the prevalent South-West breeze for energy efficiency. Enclosed and semi enclosed volumes shift on each floor creating different houses on each level allowing the building to have an organic character.
SANJAY PURI ARCHITECTS