Firm Hall
Firm Hall is a banquet and community centre in Chennai, India. The project is an adaptive reuse of an existing residential bungalow at a busy intersection. The outer walls were kept intact, while internal walls were altered to form one large event space on each floor. The ground floor holds a family hall, the first floor a hall with tele-conferencing, and the terrace a semi-open pavilion with a landscaped garden. The facade combines a textured brown mass below and a white mass with screen patterns cut from aluminium sheets and lit from behind.
Firm Hall Banquet and Community Centre by Vigneswar Vasulingam Sivanesan has been highlighted as a creative illustration of architectural design by the A' Design Awards. Firm Hall Banquet and Community Centre received the Silver A' Design Award in Architecture, Building and Structure Design in 2020. The A' Architecture, Building and Structure Design Award is an international, jury-voted, fair and ethical design award which honors exceptional design of skyscrapers, museums, residential buildings, commercial complexes, educational institutions, religious structures, infrastructure designs, landscaping projects and more.
