Delhi based Anagram Architects’ design approach to the project ‘The Digit’ was to investigate the notion of identity and its urban projection. To this end, they explored the most common idiom of identity, the thumbprint. The red facade inspired from the arch pattern within a thumbprint, displays a new visual construct creating an impressionable stand out within the narrow urban plots surrounding it. The semi-elliptical form of the building also efficiently works to provide natural light and reduced heat gain across the office. Vaibhav Dimri and Madhav Raman have masked the face of the building with a red aluminium perforated screen and converted it into a veritable work of art. The team carried the design even further inside with the whorl and loop on a thumbprint that finds its space within the entrance lobby ceiling. On the various floors an open plan concept is followed largely and the required defined spaces, which are contemporary in design, have been provided with the help of red screens. It is the minimalistic furniture and sleek design with subtle colour tones that makes the office a part of the future that the exterior reflects so clearly.
