Folly House

Pune, India

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Folly House

Pune, India

Firm

TheBusride Design Studio

Type

Residential › Apartment Private House

STATUS

Built

YEAR

2015

SIZE

5000 sqft - 10,000 sqft

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The Folly House in Pune was a response to a very odd brief: Make Mistakes. The owners were young entrepreneurs, looking to create a biography of themselves in the design of their home. They had concerns ranging from the effect of the residential environment on their young kids to their own productivity at home, and the various formats for living that the family enjoys to how they like to party. The sprawling 6500 sq ft house offered a wide range of possibilities to respond to the brief. Our approach was to create an open plan home where every functionality of the home was compacted into multi-functional or mobile objects. The remaining space was left untouched, activated only when these objects unfolded, rotated or pivoted open. The living room consisted of two such objects, a multi-functional carved wooden topography and a fold-out wooden cube. The continuity of space was paramount in the design of both objects. This created an ‘exteriority’ within the interior space. The overall experience of the house transformed from ‘living in rooms’ to ‘living amongst objects’. Since the nature of each object is different, the house remains unpredictable and new relationships between everyday home objects are constantly discovered. Chance and unpredictability create follies. Follies are objects in a garden of no particular purpose. Follies are also mistakes.

Design Team at TheBusride: Apurv Aniruddh, Hinal Vyas, Pranali Patel, Rujuta Naringrekar, Kevin Mathew, Preeti Nautiyal, Shripal Shah

Project Area:
Covered area: 5500 sq ft
Covered terrace area: 1150 sq ft

Chief Contractor: Shakir Basrai

Other Consultants:

Lights supplier: Scoop Energy Solutions, Pune

Lighting Automation: Schneider Electric

Soft Furnishings: Mansee Badve of Casa Nir, Pune

Loose furniture: Hem, Fab, Abaca, Bombay Atelier

Initiation of Project: March 2013
Completion of Project: August 2015

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Folly House

Pune, India

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Pune, India

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