Brief: How less can you build, when the clients merely wants a covered building to just enjoy the garden and organic farm on a plot of land? The shoe string budget insisted upon minimal material and the fact that the house was to be used very little suggested rough enduring materials.
Brief: Sustainable house using a green roof and perforated feeders from which water falls into pool. This helps in keeping house cool and also nourishes the plant.
Brief: Infinity house is a weekend house for a fashion designer couple inserted among paddy fields. the house has been designed to respond to ever-changing scenario around it.
Brief: A L-shaped house with load bearing brick walls in a square 90’x 110’ plot located in suburban Ahmedabad. The L shape, while providing cross ventilation to every room, also makes way for a square garden in its periphery.
Brief: Located at congested Satyagraha Chavni, a residence for a joint family in love with nature. The Design approach called for a porous building with nature and built form intercepting and dovetailing each other so that the line between the interior and exterior is broken and diluted to the maximum.
Material: Stone, Exposed Bricks, Glass and Mild Steel.
Brief: A modern minimal house for a nuclear family. Located in the heart of old city, the house reflects changing socio cultural values, curvilinear space opens longitudinally into the site thus providing view of the garden from every point in the house.
Brief: An 8 acre peninsula surrounded by the lake Fatehsagar was to be redeveloped and a luxury housing scheme built that comprised of bungalows (36nos of 450 sq yd each), row houses (18nos, 250sqyd each) and flats (48nos, three bedroom each) with a club house, boating deck, swimming pool, amphitheatre, tennis courts etc. The design has a minimalist approach keeping in mind “less is more” and thereby providing more green area to each occupant. In addition to this the site has been cut in a way so to provide view of the lake to each and every resident.
Brief: A small house with four bedrooms and requirement of a swimming pool and large glazing overlooking a nearby park. Elaboration of a house with a central waterfall that can be viewed from all public areas. The front entrance being 5’ above ground and the rear end being sunk by 5 feet, there is an element of surprise as one enters as one sees the top of trees at the ground level.