PROJECT NAME : AMRAPALI

PROJECT LOCATION :  AMRAPALI, Raiya road, Rajkot, Gujarat, India.

SITE AREA : 50,000 sq.ft

BUILT UP AREA : 1,36,000 sq.ft

The core of the concept is to design a place where nature and culture, fashion and entertainment collab with commercial activities. The E – Shaped building consist of seven floors and parking at basement floors.

All retail shops of building is connected with a 8 feet wide passage. The vertical circulation in the building has been placed in all three wings which helps in easy and decentralized circulation .

In ground floor area,  two landscape garden has been provided which act as a refreshment space and break the monotonousness of the shopping center.

The facade has been design in such way that upper floor areas receive only indirect lights which protects inner spaces from harsh sunlight.

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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