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The One-Sided House
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Bengaluru, India
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The One-Sided House
Bengaluru, India
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Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2012
SIZE
5000 sqft - 10,000 sqft
BUDGET
$500K - 1M
Every architecture project starts with an infinity of possibilities. and that has its own
terror. On one side, there's the physical world in all its unruly grace — space, climate,
the land — and the thorny trappings of human society — money, politics, use. Then
there's history, weighing on this unformed thing, and taste, and clients, and time.
Some of these factors can be listed neatly as fixed specifics in a program brief, but that
does not strip them of their caprice. As an architect first faces a design, the competing
forces arrange themselves into fleeting orders that collapse and collapse again as they
are tested by an equally volatile set of priorities and goals. To commit this roiling mess
to form is necessarily daunting...this is true of all building, everywhere. But there is
usually a reprieve: when an architect commits to an exclusive ideological or formal
strategy — be it beaux arts or blob — one path through the thicket is marked. That is a
great relief, the comfort of style, and seeking it is one reason why, looking at the
methods promoted by leading architects, we see so many fixed forms, universal ideas,
and gimcrack gimmicks applied to widely differing architectural dilemmas.
MICHEAL BEIRUT- THE COMFORT OF STYLE – DESIGN OBSERVER.COM
ORIGINALLY FROM THE NOVEL – SIXTEEN ACRES
A need to escape the brutal realities of life......a need to define boundaries and the basic need
to rejuvenate before the blur back to reality occurs became the driving point in developing the
concept for this project and also the fulcrum to make the definitions possible and balanced.
A need to pronounce lifestyle and the subtlety to blend away from it all helped define the
program for the project.
The house first completely hides away from the public and is immersed within the landscaped
berm that dominates the eye as you enter.
The project design is an inverted model of design.. in the sense that...all the Public areas of
the house are on the upper levels and the private areas dominate the lower levels.
All eyes and entries are directed towards the public zones over the green berm to encourage
people interaction. You end up having to walk through a communal space every time you
need to enter a private space.
This entices you into a conversation ever more and builds up the communal entity into a more
effective spirit
The idea is to be able to develop a potential stable balance between the private and non-
private spaces within a house and celebrate a happy marriage between them.
After all this is what a house is all about isnt it..??
terror. On one side, there's the physical world in all its unruly grace — space, climate,
the land — and the thorny trappings of human society — money, politics, use. Then
there's history, weighing on this unformed thing, and taste, and clients, and time.
Some of these factors can be listed neatly as fixed specifics in a program brief, but that
does not strip them of their caprice. As an architect first faces a design, the competing
forces arrange themselves into fleeting orders that collapse and collapse again as they
are tested by an equally volatile set of priorities and goals. To commit this roiling mess
to form is necessarily daunting...this is true of all building, everywhere. But there is
usually a reprieve: when an architect commits to an exclusive ideological or formal
strategy — be it beaux arts or blob — one path through the thicket is marked. That is a
great relief, the comfort of style, and seeking it is one reason why, looking at the
methods promoted by leading architects, we see so many fixed forms, universal ideas,
and gimcrack gimmicks applied to widely differing architectural dilemmas.
MICHEAL BEIRUT- THE COMFORT OF STYLE – DESIGN OBSERVER.COM
ORIGINALLY FROM THE NOVEL – SIXTEEN ACRES
A need to escape the brutal realities of life......a need to define boundaries and the basic need
to rejuvenate before the blur back to reality occurs became the driving point in developing the
concept for this project and also the fulcrum to make the definitions possible and balanced.
A need to pronounce lifestyle and the subtlety to blend away from it all helped define the
program for the project.
The house first completely hides away from the public and is immersed within the landscaped
berm that dominates the eye as you enter.
The project design is an inverted model of design.. in the sense that...all the Public areas of
the house are on the upper levels and the private areas dominate the lower levels.
All eyes and entries are directed towards the public zones over the green berm to encourage
people interaction. You end up having to walk through a communal space every time you
need to enter a private space.
This entices you into a conversation ever more and builds up the communal entity into a more
effective spirit
The idea is to be able to develop a potential stable balance between the private and non-
private spaces within a house and celebrate a happy marriage between them.
After all this is what a house is all about isnt it..??
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