FACT(TORY) OR FICTION?

A utopic dream manifests itself inside EVage's micro-factory for electric vehicles in Chandigarh designed by Noor Dasmesh Singh

- NAMRATA DEWANJEE

If there is one building typology that has shaped the Modernist era, it would be the factory. A large shed with a defined structural grid — practically a Noguchi playscape! But if the idea still evokes a film noir imagery a la Expressionist cinema, think again.

In Chandigarh,’s outskirts Noor Dasmesh Singh of NOOR Architects Consultants challenges perceptions and designs a microfactory for EVage, that is as futuristic as it is playful. Noor observes, “There is always an iterative exercise where the architect or designer explores spatial planning in grids.”

However, in the expansive 1,40,000 sq ft envelope housing the creation of electric vehicles, the grid is informed by more than just structural constraints.