Iron Architecture, Building and Structure Design · 2025
4.56 Jvpd Luxury Residential Apartments
- A' Design Award 2025 Iron Winner in Architecture, Building and Structure Design
- Awarded April 15, 2025
- CLIENT: Zero9
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 11,341
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About 4.56 Jvpd Luxury Residential Apartments
4.56 JVPD is a residential building located in Juhu, Mumbai. The building holds luxury apartments, with one apartment on each floor and two duplex apartments. Post tensioned slabs remove the need for beams, so each internal floor plate is column free and the interiors can be planned in many ways. Large open windows bring daylight and cross ventilation into every apartment. A private lift opens directly into each home. The building reaches a height of 52.9 metres, which respects the limit set by the nearby airport funnel zone.
Prashant Chauhan's Luxury Residential Apartments stands as a notable example of contemporary high-density residential design engaging the complex spatial and material negotiations required of vertical urban living in metropolitan contexts. The tower articulates a refined architectural vocabulary that balances the pragmatic demands of residential density with aspirations toward material sophistication and spatial generosity, evident in the carefully calibrated facade composition that establishes rhythmic repetition across multiple levels while introducing strategic variation through material differentiation and fenestration patterning. The design demonstrates particular accomplishment in its handling of the vertical-horizontal dialectic, where continuous projecting balcony plates create strong horizontal stratification that counterbalances and domesticates the tower's vertical thrust, establishing intermediate scale transitions between the monumental scale of the overall volume and the human scale of individual dwelling units. The integration of warm timber-toned vertical elements flanking the composition introduces biophilic material warmth and tactile richness, suggesting an awareness of residential architecture's capacity to mediate between urban density and domestic intimacy through carefully selected material palettes that evoke natural associations within predominantly constructed environments. The facade system appears to negotiate transparency and enclosure with sophistication, alternating between more protected punched openings that offer privacy and thermal control, and expansive glazed surfaces that maximize daylight penetration, visual connection to surrounding context, and the psychological benefits of prospect and outlook that enhance residential amenity in high-rise typologies. The architectural expression avoids ostentatious formal gestures in favor of a more restrained compositional logic that foregrounds proportional refinement, material quality, and the legibility of residential unit organization through facade articulation, an approach suggesting engagement with modernist traditions that privilege clarity of structural expression and functional legibility over applied ornament. The work invites consideration of how contemporary residential towers might contribute productively to dense urban fabrics through design strategies that balance efficiency imperatives with livability aspirations, and how architectural expression can communicate residential dignity and domestic quality even within constrained urban sites and competitive market conditions that often prioritize economic optimization over spatial and material generosity. One might contemplate how this tower negotiates its relationship to neighboring structures of varied architectural characters and scales, and whether its relatively understated presence represents a contextual sensitivity or an opportunity for bolder architectural dialogue within the evolving metropolitan skyline.
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- Unique Properties
- The Building consists of Luxury Apartments, one apartment on each floor and two duplex apartments. The internal floor plate is column free and allows complete flexibility to design the interiors.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The building in 52.9M in Height with each apartment 27.5M in length X 10.5M in breadth.
- Tags
- Luxury Residential Building, Apartments, Luxury Apartments, Architecture, Urban Architecture, Mumbai, Juhu, Mumbai Architecture, Juhu Building Design, Modern Building Design in Juhu
- Production Technology
- The apartments are made with Post tensioned slabs
- Design Challenge
- The Restriction of height was major challenge in this project as the plot location was under airport funnel zone. we managed to get 5 podiums and 10 floors with the help of Post Tension Slabs.
- Project Duration
- the project is located in Juhu, Mumbai. The project started in 2020 and finished in December 2024.
- Operation Flow
- The project was carried out in a span of 4 year by excaving the basement floors and then further building the main structure.
- Research
- The beam depths in each apartment reduced the usable space for interiors and hence we used Post Tensioned Slabs to avoid beams and provide maximum space to the end user. The spaces were also designed coloumn free to ensure maximum flexibility for the end user to plan the home as per their desire.
- Inspiration
- Mumbai Apartments are usually small and tiny, Hence we wanted to give the luxury vibe to this project with large columnfree spaces and a private lift coming into your home. The large open windows bring lot of day light.
- Image Credits
- Image #1: Photographer Umang Shah, 4.56JVPD for ZERO9, 2025. Image #2: Photographer Umang Shah, 4.56JVPD for ZERO9, 2025. Image #3: Photographer Umang Shah, 4.56JVPD for ZERO9, 2025. Image #4: Photographer Umang Shah, 4.56JVPD for ZERO9, 2025, Image #5: Photographer Umang Shah, 4.56JVPD for ZERO9, 2025
- Patents
- Copyrights belong to Prashant Chauhan, 2025