SANGINI HOUSE

by Urbanscape Architects and Utopia Designs

made with love in India

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Project Location : Canal Road, Vesu, Surat, Gujarat

Architectural Firm : Urbanscape Architects
Interior Design Firm : Utopia Designs

Architecture Lead : Dinesh Panwar

Interior Design Leads : Vipul Nakrani, Urvakhsh Chichgar,
Bhavin Swami, Apurva Desai
Project Team : Unnati Patel, Riddhi, Dishant Patel,
Suryaveer Patnaik, Mihir

Plot Area : 8,300 sq. ft.

No. of Floors : G+7
Facing : North
Built-up Area : 26,749 sq. ft.
Timeline : Feb 2016 - Mar 2019

“The voluptuous space of the eight stories structure, transforms visibly

into a five storied structure, a warmer, more approachable and com-
posed space therefore justifying the use of the word ‘House ‘and de-
parting from the overtly used word ‘corporate’.”
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Site Context and Client Brief

An irregular site with mandatory archetypal structural systems and
setbacks, offered the opportunity the notion of a building, while
of a triangular footprint. showcasing the ethos of the brand,
Conceptualising the design as a capability and expertise in the
sculptural manifestation, the initial developer domain.
design ideas were developed as a
work of art that would challenge the
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Site and Ground Floor Plan

Entrance to the site and the structure

From the entrance, the visitor is directed along the sweeping skin
into a double height atrium which opens into a court. . The entrance
is where the private world of the tower meets the public realm and
this soaring light filled space tones down the scale, making it look
proportionate to the floor plate. Daylight is drawn into the various
office levels and down through the building via the atrium. The inclu-
sion of ample daylight ensures a clarified and celebrated movement
through the building, that provides a physical and psychological
balance to the employees.
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First Floor Plan -

Project Inquiry Dept.

Floor Plate
The design intent was to create a dynamic built volume that would
encourage the visitor to come into the space and the building. As
a result, cantilevered floor plates that defy the conventional grid
structure with post-tensioned sweeping floors have been cast
along with exposed concrete walls that are structural in nature.
Bearing in mind the cantilever’s scale, alternate floors have been
intentionally connected with sheer walls; resulting in each floor
acting as a single beam, with the functions shuffled accordingly. This
exercise led to a column/wall free alternate floor.

Second Floor Plan - Third Floor Plan

Purchase Area - Auditorium
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Interiors
The interiors of Sangini House echo the character of the
architectural design and intent of the building. Adhering to the
client’s brief of keeping the interior spaces subtle yet elegant and
opulent, natural materials are used with creativity, originality and
innovation; the materials include stone, reclaimed wood, metal,
glass, ply and veneer, MDF, etc. Customized light fixtures and
specially commissioned artworks add an impression of dynamism,
colour, and energy to the spaces.
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Fourth Floor Plan -

Sales Dept.

Furniture and Material Palette

The Master sales cabin on the fourth floor is done in engineered
wood with a customized cantilever-like table made of wood,
metal and a ‘Michelangelo’ Italian top. Above it, hovers a specially
designed light fixture of the same Italian stone giving a scaled up
feel to the entire cabin. Most of the ceilings and walls are done in
exposed concrete, with services such as electrical, air-conditioning,
fire safety and fresh air left bare and exposed, offering an industrial
feel to the spaces inside. The flooring is fashioned in light grey micro
concrete on most of the layers, with the entrance, elevator passag-
es and staircases done in exquisite granite.

Fifth Floor Plan - Sixth Floor Plan -

Engineering Dept. Accounts and Legal
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The Tree of Life

The basic idea was to provide a visual connectivity
between two floors. Hence a sculpture was positioned
on the fourth floor that reached upto the fifth floor
through a puncture in the slab. It is called the ‘Tree of
Life’, designed by Atul Mahajan. The concept of the art
installation was to depict a start from the roots and
eventually bloom up like a tree.
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Facade around the 5th and 6th floor

The stone skin with three dimensional perforations
envelopes the core and provides shade from the
harsh sunlight of the south and west throughout
the day. The skin wraps around on the fifth and sixth
floor to unify the structure and create an inviting and
invigorating volume of the five-floor high entrance.
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Seventh Floor Plan -

Client’s Personal Office

The Owner’s Chambers

The seventh floor is enveloped entirely in the ‘Michelangelo’ Italian
marble with a metal art installation portraying the characteristics
of urban life, designed to separate the main waiting area from the
conference room and main cabin. The main cabin on the floor offers
extended vision to the overall volume, with its connected deck and
ample greens. The deck overlooks the infinite view of the recently
developed Canal Road.

Terrace Floor Plan

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Sustainable Practices
Guided by the building’s unusual design, distinctive which are used to optimize water consumption,
profile and an appropriate orientation adopted radiant floors and ventilation systems that cater to
through sun path analysis, the environmental the cooling needs. Together with the highly efficient
strategy exploits the various factors to enable services equipment and systems in the building
programmatic and functional success. Other active and the façade design that is integral to the energy Section Through the
means of energy systems in the building include rain strategy, the building aims to achieve a Platinum
water harvesting and drip irrigation systems green rating.
Staircase and Lobby
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Conclusion
The Sangini House stands as a testament to the brand’s values, designed in
response to context, heritage, and functionality. A rather distinctively designed
building, it is a new-age epitome of urban culture and environmental sensibility.

Section Through the Main

Entrance
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Unique Material Application

Glass Saint Gobain and AIS
Glass:
Facade Materials Concrete: Gujarat Sidhee Pvt. Ltd.
Concrete
01 / Odyssey Stone Ceiling Finishes
Perforated screen 03 / RCC Ceiling with Tiles: Nitco from Samir Ceramics
Tiles
02 / Exposed RCC exposed services
01 02 03
Color:
Color ICA Italia, Asian Paints and AkzoNobe
Sanitaryware: Kohler
Sanitaryware
Bath Fittings: Cera
Fittings and Duravit
Furniture: Utopia Designs
Furniture
ACP:
ACP Aludecor
Facade Stone:
Stone Odyssey Stone

Key Contributors
Structural Sai Counsultants
Structural:
Electrical:
Electrical Abtech Electricals
Landscape:
Landscape I Design
Flooring Lighting Consultants:
Consultants Mandala Counsultants
04 / Michelangelo Marble
05 / Vitrified Tiles 04 05 Facade Lighting:
Lighting Lumenatix
HVAC:
HVAC DBHMS - Jay Air (Mitsubishi Electric)
Plumbing:
Plumbing DBHMS
Art Consultant:
Consultant Tapi Art Promotion Initiatives

Photo Credits Noughts and Crosses LLP | Andre Fanthome

Interior Partitions
06 / Wooden Partition
with perforations
07 / Wooden partition
in green paint and
metal screen
08 / Wall Finish in the
atrium 06 07 08
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