A SUSTAINABLE INDUSTRIAL MODEL

The LEED Platinum-rated integrated production facility for Organic India in Lucknow encompasses the full production process of the wellness brand

A sprawling campus designed to support the production, processing, and administrative functions of the holistic wellness brand, the Integrated Production Facility for Organic India is located in Chinhat, an industrial area on the outskirts of Lucknow. The site surroundings are characterized by low-rise developments and small manufacturing plants interspersed with fields of barley and legumes. This upcoming industrial zone creates a verdant backdrop for the facility, which has been designed to capitalize on the abundant open space to provide an atypical work environment for its factory workers and administrators alike.

Two sets of intersecting axes characterize the building footprint of the facility; the resulting interstitial spaces emerge as courtyards, lightwells, and lawns that provide space for interaction as well as relaxation to the facility staff. The built vocabulary of the facility has been articulated in brick and concrete, with sleek lines and planar symmetry characterizing the façade design. The axes conceptualized for the facility’s design have been staggered to lay at an angle to the site boundaries—the resulting footprint creates large open spaces along the periphery to accommodate staff parking, heavy vehicle manoeuvring and off-loading, and recreational zones towards the east, west and north sides.