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WaveRock

Hyderabad, India
In progress

Investment office complex with retail, open space
 

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In the fast-developing high-tech and financial office corridor of Gachibowli, west of the historic core of Hyderabad, Pei Cobb Freed & Partners was asked to create a building complex that would become an emblem of the new Hyderabad, serve as a benchmark in innovative design and sustainability, and provide a bold statement for an international developer engaged in the first of many projects in India. The city of six million people in southern India is the focus of a substantial wave of new development to accommodate Indian and Western companies engaged in high-tech businesses, software development, and financial services. WaveRock is planned to provide office space, retail and amenities, and parking for multiple tenants.

The complex, set into a twelve-acre sloping site, is comprised of two buildings and an emblematic amenity pavilion totaling more than 2.2 million square feet of office and retail space framing an extensively landscaped entry plaza. The plaza incorporates vehicular entry and exit from the site and a generous bus and van pickup and drop-off zone, accommodating intensive peak hour traffic without the congestion characteristic in many local large developments. The landscaped plaza sits atop a podium of 1.1 million square feet on four levels containing parking and the project's central plant.

The phase I building rises 10 stories along the eastern edge of the plaza and contains 60,000 square-foot office floorplates. The phase II/III building rises 19 stories and stretches more than 1,000 feet on the western edge of the plaza; its floorplates allow for contiguous occupancy by a tenant ranging from 15,000 to 90,000 square feet. It contains 17 office floors along with retail space and restaurants at the entry and mezzanine levels. Its position within the low-rise skyline of Gachibowli offers a unique opportunity to create an iconic linear presence. The building's characteristic wave form is the result of a subtle floor-by-floor shift in which a highly flexible and efficient rectangular floor plate at the first office level is transformed along a sine curve to create a dynamic and changing profile at the building's roof. The building's glass and aluminum skin steps in and out in a pleated configuration as the building's shape transforms, accentuating the form by catching sunlight and shadow and lending a visual lightness to a large building. A seven-story emblematic "window" through the building, placed off-center, enlivens the long, continuous façade and provides an additional outdoor amenity space.

Major Components

Phase I building: 10 stories, 60,000 s/f typical floor; Phase II/II building: 19 stories, 90,000 s/f typical floor; entry- and mezzanine-level retail and restaurants, landscaped entry plaza, 3,000 below-grade parking spaces

Pei Cobb Freed & Partners services

Master Planning; Full architectural services; coordination with associate architect on construction documents and construction administration

Associate Architect

RSP Architects Planners & Engineers (India) PVT Ltd., Bangalore

Structural

Sterling Engineering Consultancy Services Private Ltd., Bombay with Leslie E. Robertson Associates, R.L.L.P., New York

Mechanical/Electrical

Spectral Services Consultants Pvt. Ltd., Noida

Plumbing/Irrigation/Drainage

Environs Building Services Consultants, New Delhi

Landscape

Ken Smith Landscape Architect, New York

Lighting

George Sexton Associates, Washington, D.C.

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