Dominick J. Gallegos
Piramal Vaikunth (images courtesy of HOK)
Located in Thane India, near Mumbai, the Primal Vaikuth development is an exploration in bringing a pedestrian scale and sense of place to Indian development. Typically, developments often follow the Corbusian 'tower in a park' concept which has not lived up to it's ideals. While this design does have towers and parks, an intense exercise in light and air setbacks was used to develop podium blocks, consisting of low rise town homes lined around integrated parking structures. These low rise buildings frame the open spaces within the development, creating place and context while minimizing the often detrimental impacts of large parking structures. The parking structures are topped with patios and roof gardens accessible by the adjacent buildings.
This slideshow demonstrates diagrammatically, how the site is organized and spaces are laid out for the 1500 unit development.
