Fact File
Project: Parinee LobbyProgram: Lobby, Drop Off, Typical Corridors
Site area 2866 sqm
Built up area: 450 sqm (lobby)
Client: Parinee Reality, Mumbai
Design: Amit Gupta, Britta Knobel Gupta
Project lead: Director, Suraj Chaphekar
Senior architect: Dewesh Agarwal
Photographer: Vishal Jayaprakash
Status: completed 2024
The thoughtful design of the lobby bridges exterior and interior spaces, offering visitors an immersive and memorable experience. Its design celebrates geometry as a unifying theme, from the crystalline façade to the intricate interior detailing. This holistic approach ensures that every element, from the reflective ceilings to the sculptural furniture, contributes to a cohesive narrative.
Architects Amit Gupta & Britta Knobel Gupta
The tower’s distinctive triangulated façade, crafted from dichroic glass, acts as a shimmering canvas, constantly transforming in appearance with the changing light. This architectural identity seamlessly extends into the interior, creating a unified experience that captivates from the outside in.
The exterior arrival sequence impresses with a striking geometric canopy and dynamic triangulation at the drop-off flooring and wall. The drop-off wall facade features white GRC components, adorned with three-dimensional triangulation, envelopes the building in a sculptural form, seamlessly blending the lines between exterior and interior.
Stepping into the tower’s lobby, visitors are enveloped in a space where geometry and materiality come alive. The focal feature of the interior is the lobby’s ceiling that features a three-dimensional triangulated design crafted from stainless steel, inspired by a Delaunay mesh and guided by attractor points, while carefully accommodating existing beams and services. Integrated within recessed black linear profiles, the ceiling seamlessly incorporates linear LED lighting, air conditioning, sprinklers, and speakers, ensuring both functionality and elegance. For material optimization and minimal wastage, the triangulated surface is subdivided further with hairline joints.
The dynamic surfaces reflect light and movement, creating a kaleidoscopic effect that transforms the ceiling into an artful, ever-evolving installation. This interplay between reflections and natural light mirrors the exterior’s bold triangulated geometry, ensuring a cohesive architectural language.
The walls of the lobby echo the triangular motif, with delicate rose-gold inlays that create a subtle yet striking pattern. These lines not only enhance the sense of depth and continuity but also lend a layer of warmth and sophistication to the neutral white palette. Here, the use of rose gold finishes creates a highlighted effect, drawing people in. The flooring, finished in seamless polished concrete, provides a minimalist canvas that balances the complex geometric elements above and around.
The lift lobby serves as a contrasting yet harmonious extension of the main lobby. Encased in warm rose-gold hues, it exudes a sense of understated luxury. The warm toned lift lobby walls are also triangulated to blend in with the main lobby design. The lift doors have the Parinee I logo engraved, and the shaft doors are hidden behind the triangulated walls with hairline joints.
