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How we design and build.

Technical problems we met on real projects, and how we solved them, explained step by step in diagrams, with the books and codes behind the principles.

Elevation of the tower with a viewer at street level; arrows run up the four white vertical bands to the arched crown, showing how the lines lead the eye upwardTHE EYE FOLLOWSTHE LINES UPARCHED CROWN ENDS THE LINES
ELEVATION DESIGN · SHREE KRISHNA RATAN APARTMENT, KANPUR

How to design the facade of a high-rise building: lessons from an 84-metre tower in Kanpur

Kanpur has very few high-rises, so the Shree Krishna Ratan Apartment had to read as a landmark. Its elevation plays two systems against each other: continuous white bands that bind each floor, and vertical louvres and white bands that lead the eye to an arched crown. Here is how it works, explained with Francis D.K. Ching’s Form, Space, and Order.

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Panel E of the facade as drawn: vertical 2 by 2 inch steel tubes at 2 inch gaps, where every other tube is cut into pieces so that the gaps draw a swimmerPANEL E · 24'-6" × 16' · 2"×2" MS TUBES AT 2" GAPS
FACADE DESIGN · DPS JANKIPURAM, LUCKNOW

How to build a strong MS tube elevation on a budget: the Fluid Motion Facade

A school pool beside a football and cricket field needed a facade that could take a ball at full pace, give swimmers privacy, let the hall breathe and still say “swimming pool” from across the field. Here is how a 146-foot screen of MS tubes, with two mirrored swimmers cut into it, did all of it on a school budget.

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Axonometric of the tower with floor plates shown as outlines and concrete shear walls running full height in both directions, resisting sideways wind and earthquake loadsWIND /EARTHQUAKERCC SHEARWALLS
STRUCTURE · SHREE KRISHNA RATAN APARTMENT, KANPUR

How a high-rise stands up: shear walls, Mivan formwork and a raft foundation

At 25 floors, the Shree Krishna Ratan Apartment is one of Kanpur’s pioneering high-rises. Designed and structurally engineered in-house at TAG, it rests on three decisions: RCC shear walls, Mivan aluminium formwork and a raft foundation.

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