We will virtually go to “Gateway to India” - the 18 millionth city of Art Nouveau and Victorian Gothic Mumbai, dropping off the old Portuguese name “Bombay” like a straitjacket, gaining strength of the country's financial, cultural and scientific heart. However, the topic of this article will not be the main buildings of the Central and Commercial Banks, the Institute of Fundamental and the Center for Nuclear Research, and not even the 150-year-old Mumbai University, the alma mater of Mahatma Gandhi, measuring the new era of India with an old watch on the Rajabay Tower.
Our attention will be paid to the impressive architectural masterpiece of our time, commensurate with the legendary Gardens of Babylon, the elite residential complex Aquaria Grande in Mumbai, which is the "high point" of Singapore's cyber hierarchist James Law.
The construction client was the wealthy real estate company Wadhwa Group. The elegant symmetrical architectural composition of two elite 37-storey residential buildings of glass and concrete is amazing.
The powerful steel prefabricated frames of the two Aquaria Grande residential buildings in Mumbai support futuristic harmonious designs with smooth contours of the side surfaces of
panoramic glazing. But the main know-how of the project is the unique pool balconies equipped with wave-like transparent walls made of modern composite materials, which are a bold and unexpected design solution of the creative project Aquaria Grande in Mumbai. The price of such a masterpiece corresponds to the category of buyers who are not used to recounting money for a long time.
The buildings of Aquaria Grande in Mumbai are so natural that they are somewhat reminiscent of plants consisting of cells, fibers, through which flows of energy, information. The construction of the residential complex is completed by huge curved futuristic surfaces - awnings made of weightless, heavy-duty composite materials resembling fantastic birds landing on buildings from above.
The implemented project includes spacious apartments (there are 200 of them), a stylishly designed club area with an extensive outdoor pool, as well as a garden with roof alleys, a three-level modern parking. The original modernist curvilinear design of the club zone, decorated with non-classical composite columns, is framed by a harmonious combination of white and intense brown tones. The panoramic glazing of the outer wall combines the interior of the Aquaria Grande in Mumbai with the breathtaking scenery of the vast city.
Professional lighting is an important touch of the club interior, having visited it once, I want to come again.
Whatever critics say, there is no doubt that the Aquaria Grande in Mumbai is already ranked among the examples of residential architecture of the future. The water park house, a frozen waterfall, the fruit of futuristic creativity. This project is another breakthrough in the creation of technologies that bring human technogenic environment closer to the natural one, creating “buffer” zones between them. Another dress rehearsal for the next stage of development is the harmonious fusion of architecture with nature.