The three hundred and fifty square foot project, a moon deck overlooking the Arabian Sea, introduces into the semi open space a program previously conspicuously absent within the large urban apartment.
The brief demanded a flexible multi functional out door deck that can accommodate for early morning sea side yoga practice, hosting lunches and dinners, in addition to an evening time party cum entertainment area amongst other usages. Of utmost importance was the retention of the ambivalent nature of the space, allowing for a maximum of programmatic and usage flexibility.
The project utilizes the normative outdoor wooden decking in conjunction with multi scalar lighting components that are inserted purposefully across its surface; in a manner that allows for its specific inherent performative agenda to reveal itself when activated after sunset.
Inherent to the materiality of the terrace, a speckled collage of differential wooden planks and back lit frosted glass tablets; an ingrained performative agenda reveals itself. Divulged through the informed pattern, the project acknowledges, responds and is reflective of the obligation accorded due to its specific purpose, accommodating for maximum programmatic flexibility, whilst allowing for a relatively uniform level of diffused illumination. The unequal lighting inserted across its surface, is the result both of an expressed desired spatial flexibility or rather programmatic ambiguity; as well as a subdued yet impressively performative response to its immediate contextual anxieties.