A mixed-use residential and commercial building in Indore for Bakir Qudrati, director of Bombay Machine Tools Private Limited. The programme brings together residential and commercial functions within a single built form, addressing the density and scale of a rapidly growing city.
The design seeks a civic presence appropriate to its corner site — a building that reads as both welcoming and purposeful, offering the neighbourhood a new kind of ground-level engagement while providing its residents with calm above.
The building is going up on a corner in Indore, visible from two streets. The facade has to hold in both directions. The harder problem was keeping the residential floors genuinely quiet from the commercial activity below, which lives in the structure rather than the finishes. That work is done.
A mixed-use residential and commercial building in Indore — 40,000 sq ft designed to balance civic presence with practical utility.
A building that reads as both welcoming and purposeful, offering the neighbourhood a new kind of ground-level engagement.
A mixed-use building has to do two things at once: present a public face to the street and protect a private life upstairs. The retail floors are designed for visibility and approach; the residential floors for distance and quiet. The structure, not the finishes, does the acoustic work between them.
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