This is modern house is built on a modest
budget in a city environment with a sensibility that enables the residents to
experience an un-cloistered quality of living in their island of solace.
This climatically responsive modernist
house, with its strong horizontal lines balancing the vertical creates a simple
graphical statement. The house located orthogonally on the North-South Axis
opens at its corners towards the South East side responding to the predominant
wind direction and also determining a definite light quality to all its primary
spaces. This sets the orientation and articulation of the house with its
transparent corners towards the South east open spaces, accentuated with corner
uninterrupted windows, corner accented slate cladding, and topped by the light
horizontal banded hand rail.
The horizontal bands on the surface, wooden
louvers and handrails, bringing it down the verticality of the building to a
comfortable scale.
Internally the spaces weave seamlessly into
each other interconnected with light courts and interlocked volumes. The
primary spaces namely the living and dining of the house open into a courtyard
with a water body and garden, expanding the house to the outside when required.
All the services are oriented towards the western side protecting the building
from the harsh afternoon sunlight.
The Ground floor weaves itself around the
entrance light court with a single Arecanut tree growing through, into the
adjoining living, dining, kitchen and services and a single bedroom. The
mid-landing of the stairs houses the children’s bedroom and the first floor has
the family living, study and the master suite, with its walk-in wardrobe,
toilets and open shower.