1. Cantilevers
(L&T) Engineering Design and research
centre Construction, Chennai
K. S. Ranganath

2. This is the headquarters of Larsen & Toubro's (L&T) Engineering Construction and
Contracts (ECC) Division

5. •primary construction : reinforced concrete
•Tree dotting the site
•Circular trunk like column
•Rotated cantilever floors
•Sets of four storey ‘petals’
•Column free interior

6. • The working spaces: distributed into two symmetrical
wings
• Central: service and circulation core.
• The wings: supported at ground level by a 4 m
diameter column
• Branches out to support an external periphery of
floating columns.
• Curved grid beams between peripheral floating
columns
• 1.6 m central solid stem form the structural system of
the floors above.