When our client wanted to have his dream home, just 100m from our Bengaluru’s Silk board junction with Flyover, we had a challenge to help their lives through thoughtful architecture. Creating spaces that well ventilated and breathing spaces was a challenge hold the pure air at the Bangalore's most polluted junction.
This Multi-family residence to be designed on a small plot evolved from a rigorous inquiry into the particulars of location and program. As a response to our client’s design brief, we came up with idea of “Beehive” (Jenu-goodu in Kannada Language) concept which is what the house was eventually named.
The design brief included an East facing site with an area of 2,400 sqft located in Bangalore, with proposed residential multi (6 family) units on Stilt and 3 storied structure. The project has been visualised as a protected and secure development for future responses to the dense urban context.
We had to take care of Client’s privacy issues without affecting the LIGHT & VENTILATION !
As Metaphor, our building BEEHIVE, designed with porosity of spaces that makes indoor air quality better than the outside. Also it protects privacy of the end users with beehive shaped laser cut panels for all living spaces.
Beehive As Facade:
A beehive’s internal structure is a densely packed group of hexagonal cells made of bee’s wax, called “a honeycomb”. Concepts have been adapted metaphorically to the structure of the ‘bee hive’, as to being heavy on the outside and porous within, with the use of a unique geometric pattern throughout to create a structure that breathes.
The “honey comb” perforations on the facades articulate aesthetics, provides visual privacy, and security to the interiors as perceived from outside. Breathing honey comb structure creates stimulatingly lit spaces with controlled visibility acting as a screening.