Meridian House
A vertical street above the Arabian Sea
Location
Worli, Mumbai
Typology
Residential
Status
In Construction
Completion
2027
Most towers turn their back on the city. Meridian House turns to face it — and then opens a hole straight through itself so the wind can pass.
Eighty-eight residences stacked around a continuous vertical garden, oriented so that every home faces both the sea and the monsoon wind.
Project data
- Typology
- Residential
- Residences
- 88
- Storeys
- 54
- Height
- 212 m
- Gross area
- 42,000 m²
- Structure
- Board-marked in-situ concrete
- Certification
- IGBC Platinum (targeted)
- Design studio
- Aurelis with Sen & Marchetti
- Coordinates
- 19.0176° N, 72.8156° E
A gap in the skyline, held open for eleven years
The plot at the northern edge of Worli sat empty for over a decade while three developers failed to reconcile the coastal regulation line with anything commercially viable. We bought it in 2019 on the assumption that the constraint was the design.
What the regulation demanded — setbacks, a fixed envelope, a hard limit on ground coverage — pushed the building tall and narrow. Rather than fight that, we let it become the argument: a slender tower with a single deep incision, cut through at the twenty-eighth floor.
Cut the tower in half and let the sea through
The incision is not a gesture. Mumbai's sea breeze arrives from the west between two and six in the afternoon, precisely when the city is at its hottest. A solid slab of this height would block it for six streets inland.
The void — four storeys deep, the full width of the building — is a wind door. It reduces pressure on the western facade, drives cross-ventilation through every home on the floors above and below, and gives the tower a residents' garden at the height of a small hill.
Board-marked concrete, and almost nothing else
The structure is exposed board-marked concrete, cast against locally milled teak formwork that was then reused as the interior joinery. The grain of the boards is legible on every surface of the building's exterior.
There is no cladding, no rainscreen, no applied finish above the ground floor. In a coastal climate that punishes assemblies, the simplest wall is the one that survives.
We were not trying to make a tall building. We were trying to make a piece of the city that happens to be vertical.
— Saanvi Kulkarni, Design Director
The building as a study model, not a render.
Every scheme begins as stacked volumes on the studio table. This is that model, rebuilt — it turns with the page, and it shows the argument of the building rather than a marketing image of it.
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