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Tessalace Commercial Office Space

Tessalace Commercial Office Space
© Purnesh Dev Nikhanj

TESSALACE COMMERCIAL OFFICE SPACE

Studio Ardete

ARCHITECTS
Studio Ardete

PLANNING
Sanchit Dhiman

3 D DESIGN & DRAWINGS
Pragya Singh

MANUFACTURERS|
Kone, Saint-Gobain, Asian Paints, TATA TISCON, Ultratech

STRUCTURE DESIGN
Continental Foundations

ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS & DETAILS
Rosy Soni, Palak Puri

CONTROL & COORDINATION
Abhimanue Sharma

PUBLICATION COORDINATOR
Abhimanue Sharma

BUILDING CONSTRUCTION
Ravijeet Singh

ART DIRECTION
Chitwan Singh Nanda

ELECTRICAL AND LIGHTING CONSULTANTS
The Luminars

PROJECT MANAGMENT
R S Builders

FIRE SERVICES
FES

AREA
1533 m²

YEAR
2021

LOCATION
Jlpl Industrial Area, India

CATEGORY
Institutional Buildings, Commercial Architecture

Text description provided by architect.

The chances of a commercial building losing its identity in a sea of clones of glass and steel are quite high. Le Corbusier, however, managed to craft an entire city's commercial and institutional complexes whilst imparting a unique character to each form.

Tessalace Commercial Office Space
© Purnesh Dev Nikhanj
Tessalace Commercial Office Space
© Purnesh Dev Nikhanj

Tessalace is an endeavor in a similar direction – celebrating the materiality of concrete. Located in Sector 82, Mohali, an upcoming industrial area, this project is a commercial building to lease out typical floors as offices for corporates and IT organizations.

However, the design intent was to craft a commercial building with a soul and distinct personality.

Tessalace Commercial Office Space
© Purnesh Dev Nikhanj
Tessalace Commercial Office Space
© Purnesh Dev Nikhanj

The building earned the name, "Tessalace" owing to its tessellated façade design. Oxford dictionary defines, tessellate – as a pattern of repeated shapes, especially polygons that fit together closely without gaps or overlapping.

Visibly, the structure of the building is enveloped in a membrane of tessellated polygons, an array of solid and voids in tones of grey and white.

Tessalace Commercial Office Space
© Purnesh Dev Nikhanj
Tessalace Commercial Office Space
© Purnesh Dev Nikhanj

The graphical RCC façade, abstract with acute angles pulled in different directions, is tied together homogeneously.

The envelope is a tessellated composition of polygons highlighted with white MS flat members and an array of horizontal white MS members filling up some of the void polygons.

Tessalace Commercial Office Space
© Purnesh Dev Nikhanj
Tessalace Commercial Office Space
© Purnesh Dev Nikhanj
Tessalace Commercial Office Space
© Purnesh Dev Nikhanj

The diversity of planes, some solid outlined in white, while the others screened spark curiosity and establish an instant engaging connection with the visitor.

Series of polygonal facets composed poetically impart a vivid and distinct persona to the building. The Tessalace rises as a torchbearer of contextual response amidst the sea of look-alike, mundane and dreary commercial buildings.

Tessalace Commercial Office Space
© Purnesh Dev Nikhanj
Tessalace Commercial Office Space
© Purnesh Dev Nikhanj
Tessalace Commercial Office Space
© Purnesh Dev Nikhanj


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Plan - Basement 
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Plan- Stilt Floor 
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Plan - Terrace Floor 
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Plan- Typical Floor 


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Diagram 
Tessalace Commercial Office Space
Diagram 


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Slide Elevation 
Tessalace Commercial Office Space
Front Elevation 

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