Design Team
Rooshad Shroff, Purva Kundaje, Aneri Mehta
Located in the city's exclusive Rajajinagar area, Kessaku by the Phoenix Group is a large residential project featuring uber-luxury apartments, housed in five interconnected buildings. We were approached to create distinctive lobbies for the buildings, each independently connecting to a premium 7,500-square-foot common lounge, the latter catering to all the complex residents.
We commenced with a masterplan to optimise the space for each lobby and that of the lounge area. The theme proposed by the developers was the elements of nature -- earth, wind, fire, water and air. Each lobby was named after an element, which also provided the starting point for its design.
The Sora (sky) lobby explores the concept of openness and clouds; light passing through two curved amber glass-panelled screens creates an illusion of sunlight streaming through. Organically shaped brass panels, interspersed with lights on the ceiling, are representative of clouds floating above.
