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Haitham Abdelrehim

Interior Design—01 / 11

Manhattan Mangalore

Mangalore, India/Tower interiors/2024 — Current/FACE Architecture + Design

A double-height lobby in textured stone and timber, the lift lobbies and the amenity floor — the interior side of the tower's entry sequence.

01A generous entrance volume turns arrival into a shared space for residents.
Location
Mangalore, India
Year
2024 — Current
Sector
Residential
Scope
Concept design
Status
Concept design

My contribution

My role
Senior Architect — design lead
Responsibility
Concept design

Key contributions

  • Led the concept design of the lobby, lift lobbies and amenity interiors
  • Tied the interior sequence to the tower's entry, lobby composition and lift-core flow
  • Set the stone and timber palette
  • Coordinated with the tower's structural and vertical-transportation planning

The project

The architecture of the tower was planned around the resident's route from street to front door, and the interiors carry that route through the building. The lobby is double-height, lined in a textured green-grey stone with a timber-slatted ceiling and a chandelier that fills the volume; reception, waiting and the planted courts on either side are composed as one room so arrival feels generous rather than processed.

From there the lift lobbies take the same materials at a tighter scale — travertine-toned stone, timber, integrated linear light and the letterbox wall — and the amenity floor opens the palette up again: a café under a rippled timber ceiling, the pool hall in stone and slatted timber, and a residents' lounge. The scheme was developed alongside the tower's core and shaft coordination, so the lobby composition and lift-core flow were fixed together with structure and vertical transportation.

02Warm evening light brings the tall reception wall closer to the scale of the seating below.
03Reception is set against a textured backdrop, leaving movement clear around the centre of the lobby.
04Waiting areas sit at the room's edges, keeping the route through arrival easy to read.
05The stone relief gives reception depth without filling the entrance with additional objects.
06Light across the relief allows the material itself to carry the identity of the lobby.
07A small seating corner offers a quieter pause beside the planted frontage.
08The sheltered seating keeps a connection to the garden even after daylight fades.
09Full-height glazing and planting balance the more enclosed reception wall.

“The resident's route, carried from the street to the front door.”

10The chandelier occupies the upper volume while the seating remains domestic in scale.
11The pool hall brings water, shade and seating together within the podium's shared amenities.

Colophon

Location
Mangalore, India
Year
2024 — Current
Sector
Residential
Typology
Tower interiors
Scope
Concept design
Status
Concept design
Role
Senior Architect — design lead
Client
Mohtisham Development