Redesigning SAP – Chennai into a Convention Centre

Aim of the Design Project

Generate cultural and social interaction in the convention centre and applying smart technology yet rendering the possible nature of activities limitless.

Context

Urban site that is commercially vibrant. Program manifestation is done to understand the nature  of activities, their relation and required distribution. A layering of them was done to generate the form and space.

SAP - Chennai into a Convention Centre
SAP - Chennai into a Convention Centre

Program Clustering

Each individual block is sited in correspondence to their requires climatic conditions with an integration of programs and concepts of sustainability that gives them a holistic dependency that becomes intrinsic to the functioning of the building.

Programmatic Distribution

  • Programs zoning in accordance with the different user  groups and user occupancy with primary functions of conventions zoned on the first floor and the second floors enabling privacy. The public facilities including the amphitheatre, auditorium, exhibition spaces zoned on the ground floor along site peripheries offering visual connectivity for passers.

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