Elan Hotel

Delhi, India

Client: Elan

Architect: Benoy

Sector: Residential

Feature: Seismic

Status: Under construction

A 30-storey, five-star hotel complements an exquisite new mall under construction on the edge of India’s capital.

Architectural visualisation of Elan Imperial Mall with its hotel tower and landscaped retail complex.
Elan Imperial Mall and hotel, Gurgaon.

Elan Imperial Mall in Gurgaon, Delhi, will deliver a retail-led, world-class mixed-use development into the heart of this exciting and fast-growing area of India.

Working alongside our sibling company, KPM, who are also engineering the mall, Agentia has provided structural engineering input for this aspirational project. Its location on the Indian plain close to the foothills of the Himalayas means that seismic activity presents a significant challenge, requiring a refined and comprehensive engineering focus from the earliest stages of the project.

Exceptional design quality is required to align with the exceptional retail and leisure offering of the mall.

Structural movement analysis showing how the building is designed to respond to lateral forces. Movement is magnified for visibility.

Exceptional design quality is required to align with the exceptional retail and leisure offering of the mall.

Structural movement analysis across the tower floors, shown with a multi-colour displacement pattern.
Primary movement of the building.
Higher-order structural movement pattern across the tower floors, visualized with a multi-colour analysis.
Movement across the building.
Structural response of the tower to wind from the Y direction, shown with a multi-colour analysis.
The building’s movement in response to wind.

The building broadly stacks vertically in alignment with its various uses:

  • Levels B3 and B2 primarily deliver car parking.
  • Level B1 is dedicated to MEP.
  • LGF contains staff parking and small service spaces.
  • Levels G to 4 contain the hotel reception and shops at ground level, with conferencing facilities, a spa and meeting rooms distributed across the upper floors.
  • Levels 5, 13 and 25 are service floors.
  • Levels 6 to 12 contain hotel rooms.
  • Levels 14 to 24 contain serviced apartments.
  • A sky bar occupies the top floor, with an accessible terrace above.