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KIAL Retail Plaza

  • Location: Kempegowda International Airport, Bengaluru
  • Year: 2016

This design was an entry to an invited design competition to develop a retail plaza abutting the airport concourse at Kempegowda International Airport Bengaluru.  The brief called for a unique, innovative, aspirational and engaging consumer interface providing a diversified offering retail, food & beverage, leisure and entertainment plus essential traveller services.

The challenge was to design a striking retail complex that would attract visitors in the middle of a busy complex where throngs of people move in a time-bound manner.

The response was to develop a hexagonal retail module with a striking roof form, where the public paths and spaces between modules would be covered by a lattice structure that threw striking shadow patterns.  The layout of the modules was derived from observation of movement patterns at the site, with the main paths in the retail plaza located to accommodate the way people naturally moved between the airport terminal and the parking areas.

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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