Multidisciplinary studio Design ni Dukaan has accomplished a home in Gujarat, India, with a board-formed concrete exterior partitions that wrap the house and outline courtyard areas.
Situated on a distant website within the municipality of Himmatnagar, the studio designed the undulating enclosing partitions as a “second pores and skin” knowledgeable by the areas inside.
“Located on a mound, the citadel-like compound is certain by peripheral partitions comprising two curved and two straight surfaces which are disjointed at their intersections to create factors of entry or delicate exits into the adjoining panorama,” mentioned Design ni Dukaan.
“Within the absence of a robust context, we relied on the consumer’s temporary to encourage the design, however his full disinterest in how the home would look from the surface prompted us to query the very foundation of constructed kinds,” it continued. “This induced a shift in our notion that resulted in an inside-out strategy to the design, whereby the expertise of house from inside took priority over the exterior kind.”
Two concrete partitions curve in direction of a fundamental entrance that’s lined by a concrete cover and results in a central courtyard house.
The kitchen, formal residing and eating room, secondary kitchen and eating room, two fundamental bed room suites and three extra bed room suites are organized round this central open house.
Set again from the courtyard are two extra bed room suites, a gymnasium and a lounge room subsequent to an out of doors swimming pool.
A lined walkway creates a buffer between the outside courtyard and indoor areas, defending the inside from the tough tropical solar and scorching winds whereas letting in pure mild and air flow.
Design ni Dukaan added “frames” all through the house, together with a swing seat positioned by a big opening that overlooks the courtyard.
At three factors within the house, volumes rise above the peak of the enclosing wall to second-floor degree and accommodate an artist’s loft, attic room for the household’s grandson and a water tank.
“We imagined them as three sentinels in dialog, floating above a seamless sea of inexperienced as soon as the vegetation had reclaimed the concrete,” mentioned Design ni Dukaan.
The studio merged indoor and outside areas utilizing a fabric palette of textured concrete, white-plastered partitions, Kota stone and greenery.
“When the vegetation ultimately grows over this backdrop of gray, the boundaries between inside and out of doors will additional dissolve and diminish any notion of kind,” mentioned Design ni Dukaan.
The feel of the concrete partitions was created by unbolted wood formwork and the imperfections in its end knowledgeable materials decisions elsewhere in the home.
“The unpredictable however lovely texture attributable to the shifting and warping of unbolted wood formwork was fascinating,” mentioned the studio.
“We determined to embrace these ‘anticipated imperfections’ as a part of the development course of, even extending this option to using different supplies such because the flooring within the corridors, which utilises strips of leftover stone from the interiors to imitate the sample of the concrete partitions.”
The impartial colors of the concrete, stone and white partitions are punctuated by terracotta-coloured accents, together with swimming pool tiles, seating and sculptural objects.
Extra playful colors had been utilized in a few of the bogs, which have monochrome inexperienced, blue or golden finishes.
The house was designed for the residents to entertain visitors, with a proper lounge opening onto a garden and a film theatre within the basement. The home additionally has a mandir with an outline of the deity Shreenathji engraved in black granite.
Different examples of concrete properties in India that use central courtyards to maintain inside areas cool within the scorching summers embrace a home in Bharuch designed by Samira Rathod Design Atelier and a house in Chennai by Matharoo Associates.
The images is by Ishita Sitwala, The Fishy Mission.
Mission credit:
Principal architect: Ar Veeram Shah
HVAC consultants: Anjaria associates
Structural consultants: Saunrachna Strucon Pvt
Contractor: Vastu Engineers
