The complex was erected on an overall area of 12000 M2 within the diplomatic enclave of the Indian capital. The complex consists of the embassy building. Technical offices and consulate section.Besides the ambassador’s residence and staff villas .Also the project include sup-plementary services like central air conditioning, fire alarm system and electrical substation .wireless station. Servant’squarters, guard’s room and landscaping

ArchitecturalConcept

  • The complex is designed around an Egyptiandistrict square, with a multi-level fountain at its center with multi-leveled building blocks around it.

  • The buildings are composed of haphazard vernacular juxtaposition of white terrazzo cubic masses , projecting , back and forth on both the horizontal and vertical planes

  • The projections on the first and second floors around the square reflect the sporadic projections in Egyptian vernacular housing, casting shadow on lower walls. Further projections od (Mushrabias) extend the projecting building blocks a typical treatment of middle eastern elevations.

  • The general composition is of harmonic organic, nearly pyramidical-hierarchy of cubical blocks , whose apex accentuates the main entrance to the chancellery.The whole formation is raised from the ground level by 90 cm concrete stilts to further purify and accentuate its geometry and to protect it from heavy monsoon rains

  • The pyramidical form is further expressed through triangular recesses claded with ceramic muralsusing Arabic calligraphic elements. This pyramidical form is accentuated by the use of triangular (Mushrabias) on the first floor windows, that keep its function as a sun creens , while still permits through its lower part the view of the cascading fountain and the garden at the ground floor level.

  • Egyptian leaded glass in bright red,yellow,blue and green Islamic Arabesque pattern is used within small triangular windows which , visually, complete a square with the lower ceramic one

  • The surface treatment is dominated by the textured white terrazzo – a mixture of marble chips, marble powder and white cement which is brushed and washed before final setting. Expansion and control joints in this plaster were designed in an Islamic manage-pattern within the whole side of the cubical blocks

  • Highly efficient Indian craftsmanship was used in external and internal elements:doors, stairsbalustrades, arches and ceiling paneling in public and private rooms. This, on the other hand, is calmed down by large areas of terrazzo, white marble and suspended ceilings.