IDAC 5th Edition at the Jio Covention Centre.
IDAC’S 5TH Edition had all eyes on the Chief Guest Gauri Khan, the celebrity Interior Designer and owner of D’Décor. At the inaugural session along with other celebrities. Discussing how the design and fashion industry should collaborate and co-work to get new brands on board to explore more opportunity and increase market share.
Moving towards the Expo’s many stalls, we can find Embellish which is hydraulic curtain fitting along with music and some new revealing art and motion collaboration. Completely developed in-house a heavenly theme with prints of Greek mythology and revealing the Sun God or the angels’ wings. These can be adapted at the penthouse or a sea-facing apartment with hydraulic door glass closers along with music and lighting to complement the ambience. Ms. Tracy Dias heading the Hyderabad Branch, giving a demo to all viewers and fellow exhibitors, many foreign nationals have been noticed to have attracted to this concept.
You can find very many tile manufacturers but to differentiate we have Agglotech Architectural Terrazo a marble chip particle tiles, they can be costume built as per the shape and size required. In collaboration with Italian conglomerate Agglotech SPA, manufacturing in Germany and India. These can be treated well to also deal with oil to suit the needs of a table top for restaurants and kitchens.
Not missing on Klaus Lift or Parking Lift management systems which can help reduce parking trouble at your malls, society, restaurants, hotels and at many other locations. Having a factory in Munich, Germany, they also have an office in Pune. Discussing their most challenging job at Bengaluru with 8000 installation which is happening phase wise and they have completed 2000 parking installation. Now on a trial basis Klaus has come up with a new bike parking system which can help reduce chaos and integrate the bikes as well.
Woven or Non-Woven your upholstery decides the sheen of the wall and the floor matching the ambience and the aesthetics of your home, office or any other interior. Warwick is a high-performance brand with many features like anti-termite, fire resistant, stain resistant, easy clean etc. to set itself apart from the rest of the brands. Manufactured in Australia and they have a robust dealership across India and would like more dealers and distributors in the coming fiscal year.
Mulberry, is offering a special prefab home design for rural or beach resorts and with FRP, steel and mixed materials. Amod Barve and Archana Nair describe their work as versatile as villa’s, offices and many other forms which will help make a distinct feature for your home or construction requirement.
Lightlabs, a light service provider having multiple brands under its aegis and making lighting professional for every need, customised the standard product line of various types of indoor and outdoor architectural fixtures, decorative, LED, electro luminescent, underwater, fiber optics and cold cathodes lights with innovative finishes and coatings. On special requests or to meet specific project needs, the company also imports fixtures from Spain, Italy, Germany, USA, China and Far East.
Comlux, is a luxury bathroom fitting showroom located at Andheri offering various bathroom fitting and fixtures for making a good connection by and between design and purpose. A wide range of wash basin, commodes and bathroom fitting to cater to Interiors, Architects, contractors, dealers, distributors and of course end users.
Looking for bespoke furniture Magus Designs gives you a wide range of options in setting up furniture or to custom design your home or kitchen or any space for that matter. Magus Designs has a special team for upholstery design and wood working they personally visit to the site and make sure they personalise every piece of their furniture for their client be it an individual or a corporate.
It’s 3:00pm and the first panel discussion is going to enlighten us about the Facade and Hi-Rise building norms and challenges. The moderator Ar. Vivek Bhole and many prominent architects present their challenges faced ad their journey from a liaison architect to starting their own architecture firm to practice as a consultant or a joint venture. Discussing various technology to create a parking facility in ratio of the FSI and how the FSI norms have changed in the modern age municipal and RERA laws.
Further emphasising on the social spaces within the skyscrapers in the residential context and keeping the psychosocial factors of human need of interaction and to socialise and celebrate festivals, personal events. Sports and recreation have been a part of our societal norms and it is enhancing the need to make ourselves better, but sometimes it also makes the feeling of staying at one place and wants you go out as a choice to explore more in the same context is to socialise or be sporting. All the speaker and guest architects were given a token of appreciation as a memory to the IDAC.
Knest was the sponsor for this discussion and they are the aluform works company that help build lasting structures with their aluminium casts which are later filled with concert for timely delivery of projects, fast execution and long lasting structures. Upon discussion they can be used for slum rehabilitation, redevelopment, sky scrapers and to add a new dimension can try rubber buildings.
The event was for 3 days, 7, 8, 9 March 2024, followed by Miss World at 7:30 pm on 9 March 2024. Hopefully I have tried to cover most of the stalls and information to make this an interesting visit to the arena or convention spreading knowledge and awareness about architecture technology and materials.