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Interesting Visual Elements ABIL Commercial Spaces, Pune

By: Rajan Goregaoker, GA Design

Located in Pune, ABIL Commercial Spaces is an ongoing boutique commercial office project, which is a part of residential development. The building boasts of a host of features that are incorporated to improve the energy efficiency, functionality and aesthetic quality of the building. This ground + four-storey building, having a built-up area of 100,000 Sq ft is located in the suburb of Pune to the west, in a place called Baner, a residential and commercial hub of Pune and occupied by various IT companies.

Front Elevation

It has a number of office accommodations, in addition to training and conferencing facilities, a café, a line of commercial shopping on the ground floor and a swimming pool on the terrace. The building has a complete glass façade using performance glass from Saint Gobain – ST150, which has got an external reflection factor of 19 per cent and a solar factor of .56.

The glass façade is enveloped with a frame clad in steel-grey colour aluminium composite panels. The shape of the building being linear, vertical glass fins were introduced to soften the visual impact of the glass façade. These fins also act as sun breakers and are in different shades of grey colour.

The glass fins are actually two glass panels sandwiched with a PVB-coloured film. They are of varying levels of opacity and are in varied shades of grey PVB films installed in a random manner. In total, there are about 300 fin sections. Each fin measures 300mm wide by 13.52mm thick and is 2875mm and 3475mm in height. To complement the scheme, the fins have been given different levels of opacity and are in different shades of grey. The 300mm wide glass fins are formed from 6mm toughened glass with the PVB film sandwiched between 2 glass panels.

The building being linear, it is not visible completely from the front in elevation but is always viewed at an angle, therefore when travelling on the road, the coloured glass fins create an interesting visual and nonstatic element to the façade of the building. The terrace of the building has a swimming pool and a metal screen which provides privacy as well as forms an interesting feature on the upper periphery of the building. It also forms the backdrop of the branding of the commercial building. These metal fins are cladded in ACP with staggered horizontal lines.

QUICK FACTS:
Project: ABIL Commercial Spaces
Client: Avinash Bhosale Infrastructures Ltd (ABIL)
Location: Baner, Pune
Architect: GA design
Area: Built-up area of 100,000 Sq ft