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The MRV Design Centre - the synergetic node.
Discipline of Function The Mahindra Research Valley is a modern workspace. With its workstations and conference rooms, the architecture of MRV ensures productivity. But there is more to architecture that goes farther than creating a functional space – architecture that understands the ethos of a work culture. As a plan, the MRV project is simple – the design workplaces at the centre where many disciplines meet, the workshops and test labs are placed at the periphery and linked to this core, expressing the essential pattern of flow of work. For design and prototyping of automobiles, the design centres, test labs and prototype labs have to work in a system. The master plan essentially establishes this system.
A dash of red dominates the painted surfaces of a carved cube - view from the approach.
The design centre at the core of all activities is organised in three levels. Within a rectilinear grid, 8m x 8m, the levels are staged and staggered to create patterns of double-height spaces, circulation moments and working spaces. In a regular grid of circular columns, the flow of internal spaces is independent and liberated from the restrictions of the walls. Even the façade is free and the grid enables endless permutations in interiors. A pattern of workspaces and formal meeting spaces overlap a free layer of nodes and places that afford accidental encounters and informal interactions. The design enables such interaction by delimiting the floor space through an open-interior layout. Indian Architect & Builder - July 2012