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Design Firm : tHE gRID Architects
Designers - Snehal Suthar and Bhadri Suthar
Plot area - 34770 square feet
Built up - 22008 square feet
Project Name : Screen House
This plan has been conceptualized as a cluster of 3 spaces integrating into one home designed to suit the needs and climatically correct encouraging nature to take over. Journeying into three living spaces. The house has a harmonious spirit and an unpretentious ambience. The individual homes were planned keeping in mind the size of the plot, sun path, family requirements, climate. The architecture explores the interplay of alliances between plant life, water, sky, built form and humans.
To establish a modern design vocabulary and balance the spatial and visual flow between inside and outside, so outdoor is a precious part of it. The architectural design is easy to read simple, and with a social, natural, and economic conscience." An endeavour to Changing habits to better lifestyles.
Everything was planned in rhythm: architecture, landscape and interiors. The intent was High quality housing while maintaining traditional concept of collective living. The constant presence of water surrounded by oxygen generating plants in every house infuses serenity. The exposed concrete on the elevation is tautly balanced with the earthen colour and screens. A close-to-nature basic palette was selected - stone, wood and concrete - which helped create a stable thermal mass. The screens protect and form a transparent curtain to the garden maintaining a visual connectivity between exterior and interior. A co-evolution which resulted in a coherent structure and style and expression maintaining architectural vocabulary. Every room opens to the central green courtyard, encouraging the appreciation for integrity for natural objects and processes The development also shares several facilities such as a well-equipped gym and jacuzzi in the basement of a separate structure, an outdoor barbeque facility attached to a covered, fully glazed gazebo, and a fire pit to cater to extending to the garden and waterbodies.