Club Montana Vista project located in Siliguri, West Bengal is a fine example of modern, functional and earth-conscious architecture of recent times. It successfully explores the conflicts between design for the senses and design for function where the former plays out magnificently keeping the soul of our best experiences alive even at the height of celebratory events.
Designed by the Salient Design Studio with principal architect, Vivek Rathore at the helm, the aim was to evolve a design for a contemporary club that was biophilic in approach. Salient’s need to honour the biophilic tendency that is biologically encoded in the course of human evolution was based on their realisation of the limitations of modern lifestyles.
Light, landscapes, aromas, sound of water, rolling green vistas all crowd the ambulatory areas in an unobtrusive way and 95% of spaces are well illuminated by daylight so natural, cross ventilation in fair weather and strategic wind passages made along the north south axis (to facilitate thermal acclimatization around the building) are a boon for those hungry to savor nature’s blessings.
