The Hindu Business Line : Orbit Corpn offers ‘tranquillity spots’ in office complexes

Mumbai, April 21 Real-estate operators in the premium segment in Mumbai are drawing on creativity and innovation to cater to niche corporate lifestyles.

And, needless to say, there are enough takers for ingenuity and class in this island city.

Orbit Corporation is offering ‘tranquillity spots’ in its upcoming Rs 140-crore multi-storeyed office complex on Andheri-Kurla Road priced upwards of Rs 25,000 a sq ft.

These ‘spots’ will be sound-proof spaces, well carpeted and with comfortable seating arrangements, where mobile phones, smoking and discussions are taboo. Additionally, oxygen generators and ionisation gadgets would be plugged in to step up air quality. A place of solitude and soothing ambience to calm nerves and energise executives is what the promoter aims to provide.

Illuminated predominantly by natural light, the building will also feature special glass windowpanes — over 25 mm quadrupled sandwiched glazed vacuum glass — for total noise elimination. The glass alone would cost Rs 7,500 a sq ft.

Piped background music will be played. “It’s much more than an upgrade of the anteroom that CEO offices are attached with,” said Mr Pujit Aggarwal, Managing Director, Orbit Corporation. The facility, one for every four to five floors, with seating capacity of 12-15 would be sold along with the office space.

Singapore-based architect company Woh Associates has been roped in to design the facility. “Mumbai-based architect Mr Hafeez Contractor will in any case take care of building layout to maximise the FSI (floor space index) content and design the circulation pattern of entry and exit in the 4.5-lakh sq ft complex,” said Mr Aggarwal.

Orbit Corporation is among the first to offer a parking slot for each bedroom. On Napean Sea Road, Villa Orb — priced between Rs 55,000 and Rs 65,000 a sq ft — has eight residential floors and parking space for 80 cars. The ninth and tenth floors would house a gymnasium and swimming pool. All the units — each of 7,500 sq ft — were sold ahead of project commencement.

Orbit’s 35-storeyed building in Lower Parel has a roof garden every five floors with a head clearance of 60 ft.

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