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The BougainVILLA wins SONA AWARDS
We are super thrilled to share that our recently completed project, the BougainVILLA won a Society of Nepalese Architects " SONA" Awards for ARCHITECTURE EXCELLENCE 2022 yesterday. An apartment building designed to provide residents with generous outdoor spaces at each level, builds on the neighborhood greenery. Series of floating verandas, carved to allow maximum winter sun into apartments and embellished with the plants that the property is named after, animate the façade. Here, the landscape becomes the architecture, playing a key role in defining the building’s identity and experience.

Owner
Sunita Khetan, Purushottam Khetan

Team
Kiran Mathema, Ajaya Mathema, Dipesh Shrestha, Parmila Maharjan, Niroj Bajracharya, Karna Guddu, Bibek Shrestha, Anu Maharjan, Shakya, Stoj Shakya, Anugya Pradhan, Khatri, Shristi Tamrakar, RK Mallik, Umesh Agrawal, Jayswal, X Bhattarai, Kiran KC, Sareena Manandhar

OFFICES AS BIOMES: As we prepare to get back to the offices, we at MAP are exploring ways to get little bit of the outdoors inside and in the process make the work environments more fun and greener.

Plants play a crucial role in our interior design, including that of our own studios. Besides being a visual treat, could plants replace some of the conventional walls, sound insulation, privacy screens and fresh-air units to transform the workplaces into healthier and more ecological indoor spaces? We have been putting plants to test in creating symbiotic biomes with humans and machines where temperature and Co2 exchanges are equalized.

CREDITS
Amit Chaudhary
Subrat Basnet

TEAM
Kiran Mathema, Ajaya Mathema, Dipesh Shrestha, Niroj Bajracharya, Parmila Maharjan, Bibek Shrestha, Aastha Shrestha, Anu Maharjan, Sareena Manandhar, Nikki Mhrzn Shrestha, Karna Guddu,

THE DIAGONAL
Consists of four apartments over two levels of offices. Each apartment is designed to optimize the winter sun and summer breeze through operable glazing shaded by perimeter balconies. All the primary spaces of the apartment face southwest. Aluminum Composite Panels [ACP] placed diagonally along the balconies serve as additional shading device to further minimize solar exposure while still opening the apartments to winter sunlight and views. These diagonal shading panels are integral part of the building’s architectural identity.

LOCATION: Lalitpur, Nepal

TEAM
Kiran Mathema Ajaya Mathema Karna Guddu Dipesh Shrestha Bibek Shrestha RK Mallik Mhrzn Shrestha Maharjan Sareena Manandhar