Brewing a new rooftop typology in Vijayawada

A brewery on a rooftop is already a kind of contradiction. It suggests weight, heat, machinery and production, lifted above the street into the open air. At Brunit, a new hospitality project by 23 Degrees Design Shift in Vijayawada, that contradiction becomes the basis of the architecture.Located atop a commercial building on MG Road, Brunit is conceived as both a brewing unit and a social destination. Its name folds those two identities together – Brewing + Unit – and the architectu