Stella Office Building
STELLA OFFICE BUILDING
Sanjay Puri Architects
ARCHITECTS
Sanjay Puri Architects
LEAD ARCHITECT
Mr. Sanjay Puri
STRUCTURAL CONSULTANT
Patankar Consultants
DESIGN COMPANY
Sanjay Puri Architects
FAÇADES
Aditya Associates
CLIENT NAME
Prestige Builders
DESIGN TEAM
Ruchika Gupta, Tanushree Jayakar, Sheetal Tharwal, Bahar Patil, Sumit Khandelwal
CONSTRUCTION COMPANY
Prestige Builders
PHOTOGRAPHS
Vinay Panjwani
AREA
5574 M²
YEAR
2026
LOCATION
Nagpur, India
CATEGORY
Office Buildings
English description provided by the architects.
Stella is a compact office building located in Nagpur, Maharashtra, India. Within a plot of 836.07 sq.m., the project accommodates 5,575 sq.m. of office space across 14 levels, with four offices on each floor.
The restricted plot size and statutory open space requirements resulted in a vertical configuration, optimizing the usable area while maintaining natural light and ventilation throughout.
Nagpur, among India's hottest cities, records summer temperatures of up to 48°C. Responding to this extreme climate, the building's façade is conceived as a layered, climate-responsive skin.
Semicircular open decks and planters sheathed with aluminum louvers alternate along the entire perimeter, both horizontally and vertically.
This dynamic envelope mitigates direct solar heat gain while introducing greenery around the building, creating shaded, cooler microclimates for the interior spaces.
Green buffers wrap the façade, enhancing thermal performance and visual comfort. The service and circulation core is positioned on the eastern edge, allowing the north, west, and south sides to open up for naturally lit office spaces.
Larger offices occupy the front and rear, benefitting from daylight, cross ventilation, and outdoor views that enhance occupant comfort.
Rejecting the fully glazed office typology unsuitable for tropical climates, Stella embodies a contextual and energy-efficient architectural response.
The design minimizes heat gain, reduces operational energy consumption, and provides sheltered, well-illuminated workspaces with indirect sunlight.
Conceived as a direct response to its setting, Stella integrates passive strategies, greenery, and modern expression to create a sustainable workplace rooted in its climatic context.
