RESIDENTIAL PROJECTS
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Our Residential Philosophy
Residential projects have always been a very enjoyable part of our practice. It requires a close working relationship with our client and demands that we be good listeners and develop practical design solutions. You will not recognize a “J&A” style or look. While some architects have a personal style that they express or traditional forms they want to perpetuate, we consider our most successful projects to be the ones that are expressions of the homeowner’s own lifestyle, values, tastes and personality metted with our expertise in the interplay of light, space, forms, site, views and environment. Depending on the client and the home’s context, our design may result in recognizable traditional, contemporary or modern forms. It may also be a design that is uniquely the result of a true collaboration between architect and owner. Simply put, we strive to make our designs appropriate to their place and their people. When our projects are completed we don’t want our clients to say, “This is J&A’s house” but rather “This is MY house.”
We gladly accept projects that are:
• New homes - big or small
• Additions and/or renovations
• Special areas such as kitchen & bath design
Our flexibility allows us to be as involved as our clients want:
• Traditional architect with separate builder
• Architect & Construction Manager
• Designer
N.B - Projects market with an * has been executed under DSA Co. Ltd.
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Apartment Complex, Shand Street
The scheme makes provisions for 52 apartment units along with facilities such as covered parking spaces (more than 60 car parks), landscaped areas and internal courts (at least 1000 sqm of pavements and green spaces), private terraces along with all other facilities necessary to create quality residential environment.
Commercial/ Residential Complex
Situated in downtown Flacq next to the bus station, the project is commercially very viable and develops a shopping mall on two levels with escalators. The top floors comprise office and apartments. Flacq being a big “village” the building has been on purpose designed on a “vernacular” line.
Client: Matikola Jewellers
Location: Flacq
Project Cost: MUR 100 Million
Design/ Completion: 2004 / -
Size: 6,285 sqm
Client: N. Gopee Co. Ltd
Location: Shand Street, Beau-Bassin
Project Value: MUR 100 Million
Status: Building Permit
Design/ Completion: 2004 / -
Size: 10, 100 sqm
Jay Sooredoo Residence
Resolutely influenced by the works of Richard MEIER, Jay Sooredoo wanted to experiment some design principles in his own house. The site configuration with an unrestricted panorama over the mountains and the sea down to Flic en Flac beach provided a good setting for the design which developed unusually into the living rooms on the first floor because of the panorama and the bedrooms on the lower floor. An external metal staircase guides visitors directly to the first floor.
Client: Mr Sooredoo
Location: Bonne Terre, Vacoas
Project Cost: Rs.1M
Design/ Completion: 1991 - 1992
Size: 350 sqm
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Low Cost Housing Development
This private enterprise takes advantage of Government incentives for housing development. Situated in a nice scenery over the Trois Mamelles mountains, the completed scheme was immediately sold and adopted by the owners.
Client: Rosano Ltd
Location: La Caverne, Vacoas
Project Cost: Rs. 90 M
Design/ Completion: 1996 - 1998
Size: 254 Units
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The scheme respects the neighborhood environment and ensures that privacy requirements of the future residents as well as those of the neighbours are fulfilled. This is achieved by consciously arranging the private terraces for its residents around an internal courtyard space thereby imparting an introvert character to the principal activity spaces for the residents.