Sheet S-01 · Rev 04

Modular architecture · India

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Premium modular architecture for families, operators and developers: twenty-six buildings designed to be made on your own ground from precision-engineered components, six of them drawn to the sheet today.

A01 · Composite modular campus

The studio · 01

The building leads, and the method follows it

This market sells a method and a delivery date. This studio sells a building. Twenty-six designs are published here, each one a complete idea rather than a line in a range, and the way in is to see one and then describe your own land against it. That conversation is the work; the twenty-six exist to begin it.

Nothing here is offered on the grounds that it could only be built this way. Conventional construction could produce most of these buildings, and a client who has built before knows it. What the method changes is where a building of this quality can go up, and how much of it is settled on paper before anyone stands on your ground.

The studio · 02

Built well where building is difficult

The land these buildings go on is usually the hard kind: a hill shoulder, a forest edge, a coastal strip, a plateau a long way from the nearest town. Wet months, scarce skilled labour and a long haul for every sack of material are what make conventional work slow there, and they are the conditions a component-built system was made for.

That is an argument about your ground, not about ours, so it is settled with your survey rather than on this page. Levels, access, bearing and services stay project inputs and are fixed once, with your engineer, before a component is ordered. Where a design has to change to suit the plot, it changes on a drawing while changing it is still free.

The studio · 03

What is drawn today, and what follows

Six of the twenty-six designs are drawn to the sheet today; the rest follow as each design closes. Where a design is drawn, its A3 sheets settle what the building is, and they can be read before a site visit and before any money moves. Where it is not, the sheets are drawn once that design is selected, and this site says which is which.

What makes the drawn sheets worth an hour of a professional’s time is that they and the photographs come from a single model of a single building, so the plan and the picture are the same thing and your architect can hold one against the other. Each sheet also carries the line naming it design intent, to be certified before construction.

The studio · 04

Steel frame, manufactured panels, assembled dry

The structure is steel, fabricated to the drawing. Wall, roof and cladding panels are made before they reach you. Glazing, screens, fixings and the interior fit-out travel as material, stacked and labelled to the order they go up in, and the building is put together and screwed down where it will stand. Nothing habitable travels on a lorry.

How a surface is made is the rule; what it looks like is free. Panel systems are manufactured to read as concrete, stone, brick, terracotta, sandstone or metal, and any of those appearances is open to a design. What is not open is the wet trade behind them: nothing here is poured, laid in mortar, coursed or rendered on your ground.

The studio · 05

The limits, printed where a buyer can read them

No structural, fire, thermal, acoustic, energy or seismic figure is published as ours. Those are the work of the engineer your project appoints, who redraws the design as a construction set before anything is built. Every sheet you are sent names itself design intent and says a licensed professional must certify it, on the sheet rather than in a footnote.

Behind the studio is a manufacturing group whose record is one hundred and more projects, sixty to ninety days on site and a twenty-five-year warranty, qualified per building in the quotation. No figure of cost appears on this site at all, because every building is quoted against a plot that has been seen. What comes before any of that is a drawing.

Questions

Questions to settle around architecture-led off-site delivery.

What do you actually supply — a finished building, or a set of parts?

Both, in sequence. The design and its drawings come first, then the components: steel framing, wall and roof panels, cladding, glazing, screens, fixings and the interior fit-out, sent as material to your site. The building is assembled there, on ground your engineer has prepared. Nothing habitable is carried in whole.

Which designs can I read the drawings for today?

Six of the twenty-six. Their sheets go out ahead of any site visit, so the architect or engineer you trust can read the plans, the elevations, the sections and the schedules and give you a professional’s verdict on us. For the remaining twenty, the sheets are drawn once that design is selected, and nobody pretends otherwise.

I already have an architect. Is there anything here for me?

Usually the drawings rather than the design. An architect brings his own plan and reads a drawn set as a brief for what the system can carry: the bay rhythm, the order of assembly, the panel build-ups, and which values are fixed against which are inputs from your site. That reading is what the sets are made for.

Can this be built on a steep or remote plot?

That is where the method earns its keep, and it is still a question about your particular ground. Three things decide it: whether a flat-bed load can reach the plot, whether there is room to work alongside the building, and what your engineer says the base must bear. All three are answered from your survey, in writing, before anything is made.

Why is there no cost figure anywhere on this website?

Because a figure published without a plot behind it is a guess, and a buyer at this level knows it. Ground, access, levels, services, finish and phasing all move it. Each building is quoted against the site it will stand on, after the design conversation, and the quotation sets out its own exclusions as plainly as its scope.

How long does a building take?

Sixty to ninety days on site is the manufacturing group’s record, qualified per project rather than promised in advance, and it covers the assembly alone. Design, drawings, the approvals on your side and component manufacture all sit in front of it. The answer for your own programme arrives with your quotation.

Tell us about your land, and the sheets come back

Send the use, the plot and roughly when you want to open. Where a design near your brief is drawn, its sheets reach you before anyone asks you for anything.

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