Ashardham Villa

The proposed residence is for a client who is a doctor by profession and his wife as a homemaker along with a son and a daughter visiting over on weekends and off days. The house is built on a plot area of 7261sq.ft. With the idea of creating a family living domain while respecting the individual domain. The project is built at 6M. set back of the plot in the southeast direction creating a linear garden with dense vegetation as well as inculcating it on different levels of the house. The elevation is rhythmic with all facades treated differently yet in harmony. The external material palette consists of natural brick and exposed concrete as the primary finish with minimal use of metal shading and glazing for functional areas.

The brief by the client was to design a house that is internally open, letting nature interact with different typologies of spaces and giving landscape major priority. The staircase in the house was specifically asked to be designed as distinctive and decorous. The house is spatially organized on three stories with five bedrooms, family living, a dining area, a private gym, a swimming pool, and an exterior veranda at all levels opening frontwards, the overall color palette of the house gives a sentiment of tranquility. The vegetation on the peripheral frontage invites the user into the plot, revealing the house to its fullest beauty. The house has a central entrance to the plot in the east direction with a setback of 0.8M. from the main road opening into a 2M. wide passage with an aisle of small Buddha sculptures guiding the user to the shaded porch.

The house is oriented with maximum large openings on the front facade consisting of common amenities and keeping private spaces in the rear. The east-facing covered entrance porch has a seating facing toward a linear water feature with a backdrop of plantation and garden accompanied by two adjacent cars parking on the right side of the porch. The entrance is accentuated by the presence of a double-height space with a specially carved wooden finish staircase on right with a contemporary statue at the center of the staircase well. The staircase lounge visually connects the user to the outside while the space allows for a pause point at the entrance into the house. The linear central 2M. wide passage links all the spaces visually.