CPWD office headquarters,Gurgaon

Abstract

The thesis project is a government office building in the Gurgaon district of Haryana. Gurgaon has become an international hub for business in the world ,with the growing needs of urbanization and increasing business opportunities there is a large demand for well planned ,sustainable and high tech offices in the city ,the office design of my thesis is primarily governed by these factors .It is an high-tech office building designed to suit the functional and hierarchical aspects of a government organisation .The buildings outer profile is rectangular making it space efficient in the very framework of the building. Project comprises of an extensive study and experimentation of various available configurations for maximum space efficiency. The placement of individual offices, private and semi private personnel’s, supervisory and non-supervisory personnel’s , managerial and non-managerial personnel, in a way to create hierarchy of ranks. The attention was paid to the functional aspects, massing and aesthetics on the basis of which the whole design evolve. A centralized pattern is adopted for planning various spaces. The predominant activity of the office spaces are observed and are placed in a way to achieve ease of access and Identification. Landscape areas are used as an aesthetics element and functional purpose to improve overall quality of space and thus increasing work efficiency. Effective depth of the workspaces is designed to capture daylight. The building is also cost effective by providing a service core centrally to distribute mass, networking. Workstations aligned along perimeter and cabins in the interiors to harness maximum daylight. Grid planning has been done in advance to promote structural and functional aspects. The CPWD head quarters are designed to accommodate all the branches of the organization which is challenging because of the difference in the functioning of each branch and this is followed throughout the designing and zoning process. The design on total met the standards and requirements considered in the scope considered during the selection of the topic