Atomic Architects

Guided by the smallest unit of life that sustains us all- cells, this sculpture gives the concept of ‘life as a vessel’. Where, each organism, each action, each counteraction, and each reaction go out their separate ways to create a whole that we call life.

Location: Fujairah, UAE

Project Type: Sports Complex

Built-up Area: 13,595 sqm

Project Description
Martial arts practice is a congenial challenge, rewarding to accomplish even for people who are unlikely to do much fighting. Its training has a unique system in place of channelising the universal life force or chi to help balance and strengthen the bonds among mind, body and soul for each practitioner that emanate towards total awareness.

Our form for the martial arts facility is traced by the continuous flux of chi, moving along the triad of mind, body and soul, enabling the patrons to align their distinct identities in a connected landscape. We have introduced precinct spaces like reiki and spa, sauna, mineral pool, zen gardens, meditation centre, yoga centre and other amenities to revitalise the mind, body and soul, training the end-users for combat while enabling them to come out as a better human being, enriched with a better quality of life.

The facility is a reflection of utmost coordination; continuous, yet not complex. It has been designed to instil a heightened sense of mindfulness by engaging all the guest senses with compelling designs that inspire the desire to go, see, try, taste and learn. The concept fuses indoors and outdoors in a comfortably grand setting that encourages engagement with the surroundings and discovery within oneself.

Location: Gurugram, India

Project Type: Interiors

Built-up Area: 185 sqm

Project Description
It’s a universally acknowledged fact that our surroundings affect our mood, productivity and creativity. Built on this premise, the Arkiplan International office was designed to inspire creativity and lift its employees’ spirits. The layout was to discard hierarchy and engender transparency, and an open plan was decided upon to facilitate easy communication.

With the open floor plan comes the responsibility of creating breakout areas where people can get a few moments of quiet or meditate. It has been efficiently catered to with various zones, both formal and informal, private and social. The breakout areas serve several functions, acting as places to relax or to come together for informal discussions. One such area is the stepped-seating overlooking a wall of life-sized sculptures based on the theme of ‘resurgam’, which translates to ‘I shall rise again.’ It inspires people to look beyond their current struggles in the hopes of a blissful tomorrow.

All the elements, from the parametric reception desk to the founder’s fluid table, have been designed to reflect the firm’s ideology of exploration, experimentation and innovation. The amalgamation of form and fluidity, formal and informal and open and closed creates a symbiotic balance between work and recreation inside the office premises.

Location: Manhattan, New York, USA

Project Type: Memorial

Project Description
The nature of the world is that it is always transforming; randomly and erratically. It’s a product of circumstances, changes, of forces beyond our scope and reach. One such change is natural calamities. No matter how high we build our walls, how deep we lay our foundations, they end up affecting us, challenging the very core of our existence- forcing us to rebuild the foundations of our life from rock bottom.

And yet changes are the fabric of life. The known depth of this fractal is birth, and every change results in a rebirth. Despite the knowledge of the fractal nature of change, we choose to be; we persist, resilient like never before.

This sculpture is that process, moving out from enclosed safety to the enormity of the world. Its core is the three-pointed cosmological Taíno’ Cemi/Zemí’, where the central peak is the home to Yaya, the creator, the mouth like point representing Coabey, the land of the dead and the final point representing Goiz, the land of the living. The triad converges at the womb, representing the seed of life, a core to sustain the creator, the destroyer and the preserver. To the Taíno, zemí is an abstract, a concept imbued with the power to alter circumstances and social relations.

And for us, zemí is the symbol of power, to tell the world, that despite changing civilisations, evolution, invasions and times, we will come to be, continue to be, just like zemí, never fading in the rings of life. Despite all odds, we rise, survive and thrive, like we always have!

It’s a contrast between the strong swirl of winds where life struggles to exist and a complicated thread of change, moving along existence to create a fractal that we call life. 

Location: Georgetown, Guyana

Project Type: Residential

Built-up Area: 21,000 sqm

Project Description
These 120 luxury low-rise apartments have been designed as a modern and fresh residential landmark to Georgetown, Guyana. The unique minimalist architectural form will be a one-of-a-kind rendition to the developing cityscape.

Clean and contemporary lines expressed within strategic proportions, contrasts and rhythm create an individualistic identity of the development. With splendid terrace gardens and abundant floor plans, the estate is designed as an everyday delight. The development is also sensitive to the environmental context where common local materials have been used in uncommon ways to reduce the carbon footprint.