Location: Bangalore, Karnataka
Completion: June 2018
Client Name: Byg Ventures group

BYG Brewski

The group who were to set up the Byg Brewski on Hennur Bagalur Road in Bengaluru met with a grand vision of recreating the Colosseum, Rome as the largest brew pub in Asia. It took a while to dig deeper and figure out to capture the openness, dramatic scale of spectacle for events and its ruined character as a means of creating the ambience.

The blessed climate of Bengaluru and its pleasant evenings and beautiful sunsets was a beginning. The elements started coming together. The central area was to be stage for major events and smaller events that could break away into smaller group spaces without isolating from the main. The openness of the central area brings people together much like town squares / community village spaces / an oasis. Levels played an important role as the joy of being part of this public space / place

The Different levels created the dynamics of an organically evolved place for people to spend times with family, friends and loved ones, over food, beer, music, events and joy. As night descends the place transforms itself under the dark limitless sky.

Many materials were recycled from old Mangalore tiles, stones from the site and surrounding including the boulders from the adjoining sites etc which would bring together a place made of pieces of the not too ancient past and bring about the feel of a much longer presence. The large water body drown the sound of the traffic and its cascading waters (which reuse rainwater that is harvested) brings motion and life to the place beyond the mirth of the happiness of the drinks and the food.

The use of varied collage of structural systems like the deck sheet slabs, jack arched panel slab, steel framing, RCC framed beams and slabs etc – a deliberate collage brings the aspect of its heritage to a short but adequately old ambiance of comfort. The arched steel frame pavilion with lower deck level of seating is inspired from the older structures of the Mysuru Palace – of putting the delicateness, amongst the ruin like character, brings in the contract of the rugged and the fine.

The success of the place shall grow with the green scape overcoming the ruined character of the place. And it shall no longer have walls / defined ends but only soft edges and the distinction between the two shall no longer be discernible.