Melcrete Building | Studio Ardete

This building is designed with the ambition to be able to bring happiness to everything and all objects around it, even though it has a mundane, plain gray color, and a simple box shape. Meltcrete Building is located in JLPL Industrial Area, a thriving industrial area in India.

This project is one of the buildings with a commercial typology that can be rented out for offices or exhibition areas in the corporate arena. Designed to be a trendsetter that in the future can inspire nearby projects that are still premature to have a similar style, showing class and pep from a rather monotone design. 

In harmony with the surrounding buildings, Meltcrete has an open laid-out plan that allows the facade to be designed more expressively.This type of plan also provides an opportunity for the existing space to be divided into smaller, varied spaces according to the needs of the tenants, considering that this building has a commercial rental office typology.

An undisputed claim to uniqueness and comfort, around which it was worked to give the clients about this commercial raise. To keep it robust and to avoid any immediate revamping, the façade has been plastered in concrete.

The splendor of the design of this building is shown by a series of concrete fascia with curved shapes as if they were melted concrete. The second layer is made of double-functional metal frame silhouettes which create another fluted layer. Not only does it act as a facade element but also as a balcony railing. 

Consisting of only 3 levels with each level having its fixed height,  the curved concrete layer on the facade of the building also creates the illusion of a taller structure. The shape of this facade also displays uniqueness and simplicity. It expresses concrete poetry in a subtle way to plot the line of office space, something started by Le Corbusier. Processing facades like this can also reduce construction costs by up to half when compared to similar conventional buildings that fully use concrete as the main facade material.