PROJECT NAME : PALM PARADISE

PROJECT LOCATION :  PALM PARADISE, Opp. B.H. Gardi collage, Kalawad road, Rajkot, Gujarat, India.

SITE AREA : 26,911 sq.mt

BUILT UP AREA : 23,235 sq.mt

The present project develops a superior hotel building with 336 hotel rooms, where an new concept of hotel is proposed.

The volume rises like a L-shaped slender prism with its principle facades facing north and west, and presenting an enclosure to open spaces from southern heat and harsh sunlight.   

The building consist of 15 floors where ground floor, first and second floors are double heighted floors. The ground floor having different spaces like business center, banquet hall, theater, game zone and other activity spaces while first floor has gymnasium, game zone and music room. Second floor consist of restaurants and swimming pool while all hotel rooms are situated from 3rd floor to 14th floor.

The vertical circulation nucleus located at the center of the building is strategically divide spaces of different functionalities, while two other vertical circulations has been given on both end of the building which allows people to access specified spaces on other floors directly from ground floor and separates human flow.   

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Rupali Gupte

Rupali Gupte is an architect and urbanist based in Mumbai, Professor at the School of Environment and Architecture (SEA) and a partner at BARDStudio. Her work often crosses disciplinary boundaries and takes different forms – writings, drawings, mixed-media works, story telling, teaching, curation, walks and spatial interventions.

Her works include extensive research on contemporary Indian urbanism with a focus on architecture and built environment; tactical practices; housing; and urban form. In 2013, she co-founded the School of Environment and Architecture (sea.edu.in). SEA is envisaged as an experimental academic space for research and education in architecture and urbanism. She has a wide range of publications, has delivered lectures and been on juries across the world. Her works in collaboration with her partner Prasad Shetty, have been shown in several exhibitions including the 56th Venice Biennale, X Sao Paolo Architecture Biennale, Seoul Biennale of Art and Architecture, at Manifesta 7 in Bolzano, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona and at galleries such as Project 88, Devi Art Foundation and the Mumbai Art Room. She has recently curated an exhibition involving artists and architects titled ‘When is Space? Conversations in Contemporary Architecture’ at the Jawahar Kala Kendra.

Rupali Gupte