GIGA CARS - EXPERIENCE CENTRE
Team
Indulekha Nair, Anuradha Desai, Deepankar, Nayak, Ajit Jain
Year
2019-20
Type
Professional
GiGa Cars is a second-hand car showroom, with the aim of providing a unique buying experience for customers. The project comprised the main shed that housed the cars and an experience center appendage where discussions and transactions occurred. The brand colors are expressed through the fins on the facade, lending a colorful frontage leading to the site.
Borrowing the color story and fonts from the Giga branding design, architectural and interior elements have been designed to create a strong brand identity.
The car shed is designed to be economical & functional. It forms a minimal monochromatic volume within the larger landscape. The experience centre is designed to be a part of the shed extending out into the landscape. It is an iconic structure floating in the midst of the landscape that houses the offices and visitor experience functions. The roof of the first floor is designed as a North Light truss to bring in light into the work space. This truss also forms a light weight ceiling with an interesting character, avoiding the need for a false ceiling beneath it.
The North light truss provides a basic grid for the structure on the first floor. This grid is accentuated with storage units that are designed using slotted angles. These shelving units are designed to be economical, functional, and aesthetically pleasing. The discussion tables are designed in a pair of two with a local metal roof housing lighting. This roof is suspended from the truss framework ceiling. The storage partition between them serves as a visual yet functional barrier.
