United Coffee House Gurgaon

Year
2017 - Ongoing

Project team : Shubham Sahai, Sharundeep Periasamy,
Chhavi Gupta and Chinglemba Chingtham

Structural Consultant
NNC International

MEP Consultant
dbHMS

Griha / LEED consultant
dbHMS

Set in a deep and cramped plot, the Office for United Coffee House is a recipe in itself. Instead of creating levels with a pool of functions and splitting it into smaller chunks, we let every layer unique to one utility, like a lasagne. Every slab a layer of pasts and every filling a different function.

Ingredients:

Lobby and reception – 1 fs

Parking – 1 fs

Storage and services – 1 fs

In-house kitchen – 1½ fs

Offices – ½ fs

Lease out offices – 3 fs

Head office – ½ fs

For garnishing – local greens and people

(fs – floor slabs)

Recipe:

Start below the ground with a crust of storage and services in the lower basement. This is surmounted by a layer of parking for nine at the upper basement. The ground level is a generous helping of lobby garnished with loads of creepers, trees and plants (this is a healthy office). Level one is large portion of the in-house kitchen neatly laid on the lobby. Level two another layer of kitchen garnished prepared with in-house offices. Levels three, four and five are layers of leased out offices with aromas and textures of different users. On top place a crisp piece of the head office and tasting rooms with panoramic views and garnish with a fresh terrace garden. Place all the layers in a neat white container with tonnes of aerations a light for all layers to be cooked well. Serve at room temperature.