29/04/2020
Plot Area - 10 Gunthe
Build-up Area - 3800 sq.ft.
Category - Bungalow.
Location - Vangani,Thane.
A house of unified divisions. This reconstructed house is located in an old residential neighborhood. The east side of the house faces a street and the other three sides are facing neighbors’ houses, which made it challenging for us to open up the space to the outside. Thus, our focus was to design a comfortable interior space virtually connected to the exteriors.
The house consists of spacious living space to accommodate a large family which is ready to increase its members in the future and visiting relatives. There are not too many rooms; this is considered to be a medium-sized house of four bedrooms.The upper floor is occupied by the three main bedrooms and a hall which is centrally placed: to have leisure time with the family. The other bedroom on the ground floor is for the convenience of an elderly mother, and for her safety from different floor levels. The rest is a space for sharing: a dining room and a pantry that connect to each other via a main staircase adjacent to the background, pushing a living room that can receive guests in various occasions to the front corner, according to the desire to see the extreme privacy and sharing blended in this area.
The house’s external features are constructed from contemporary methods and materials, using sliding panels of customized patterns as external curtain to control visibility. Half of the roof is front lifted whereas some parts are higher than others for visual diversity. The top part creates new proportions and unexpected utilities for this two-story house, with wide length 16 m. Thus, the house creates new self-defined personality amidst all existing limited conditions