ITC Tower

After an exhaustive site study, the architectural form was evolved as a response to site specific facets of approach and view orientation as well as the wind & sun path analysis. The form thus evolved lends itself to maximum natural ventilation by letting in air from below the elevated base and allowing it to be scooped up through a central vertical void by the lowered wind pressure at the very top of the tower, and also through openings in the longer windward faces of the building. Thus, rooting the design in some fundamental rationale for climate response makes the building act as a giant lung, further helped by carefully crafted landscape strategies that add layers of green at multiple levels of the building. The architectural resolution further borrows from Bengaluru’s culture of outdoor lobbies to create a fabulous green active high street environment through the breeze tunnel created at the bottom of the building’s elevated base. With this detail, the building’s architectural expression as well as user experience at all levels attains a sense of unified consistency. Other effective strategies such as water sustainability through conserving and recycling strategies, electricity for lighting of architectural façade and green terraces enabled by photo-voltaic panels that generate green power.