Mumbai | Maharashtra

2019

The Centrum Club reinterprets the spatial language of the traditional wada—a quintessential Marathi courtyard house—into a contemporary architectural statement.

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Principal Designer

Abin Chaudhuri

Design Team

Sonia Guha, Samya Ghatak, Poorvi Dugar Ajmera, Usha Thakvani, and Mayuresh Kelvalkar from Lodha Group

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Drawing from the wada’s intrinsic logic of clustered rooms surrounding open courts, the club’s planning places a central courtyard not as a passive void but as an active recreational core.

Here, the courtyard is imagined as a vibrant water court, housing swimming pools and a sun deck, establishing an animated heart around which all functions are orchestrated.

Light becomes a primary material—guiding circulation, defining thresholds, and animating surfaces. The building’s porosity ensures that the physical boundaries extend beyond walls and glazing, creating a sensory engagement with the broader environment.