Architecture
The design of architectural spaces; be it commercial, residential or industrial, is a critical responsibility for Architects. The aim is to be able to provide a space that can help streamline the operations of various activities, while providing an ergonomic space for its users. The look and feel of the space can tell users a lot about the experience they can expect during their day to day activities within. It is therefore very important to create a special, innovative and visually exciting combination of spaces to give the users a feeling of uniqueness.
Project Aashiyana
Client – Pranav Walia
Location – Badripur, Dehradun
Category – Architectural
Aashiyana, A home that suits two generations and coexists for their ages and needs; all while prepared for the next generation to arrive. The designers were approached by the owner with the dream to design a modern house but one with a warm feeling, to be relatively large yet feel modest. Their request was catered tro with a certain elegance and sophistication. The overhang in the front gives the house an intimate character and the large glass surfaces brings nature inside. It was important to the clients that each space be provided with natural daylight and the airy atmosphere from the gardens surrounding the structure should be able to circulate unhindered.
Villa Sonata
Client – Om Thapa
Location – Chiddarwala, Dehradun
Category – Architecture
Villa Sonata, lies within Chiddarwala, one of Dehradun’s most picturesque forest regions. The location provides for a complete hideaway and offers numerous quality view of the distant mountains along with surrounding greenery and farming fields. The project is conceived to be both modern and adaptive to it locale. The house reflects on its privileged location by adopting the predominant use of locally sourced materials, together with a careful integration of indigenous motifs, forms and elements. The result, a harmonious balance between the clean contemporary lines of the architecture and the soothing tones and texture of the material finishes.
The Forestay
Client – Gaurav Kaushik
Location – Dehradun
Category – Architecture + Interior
The Forestay, is located at an irregular-triangular shape land with a slight slope that defines a plateau over which it’s constructed. It reinterprets “simple with bay windows” typology with a regular morphology, simple roof and balconies alongside small bays. This building type involves shapes, heights, ornamentations, levels and characteristic elements such as the homogeneity of material, separated housing and front yards.
The Stonington Residence
Client – Kaushik
Location – Tehri, Garhwal
Category –Architecture + Interior
The Stonington Residence, The design aims to create architectural interventions that both respect and enhance this unique contoured site. Thick stone masonry define the structural axis that guides occupants from the entry parch, through the house and to the expansive views of the site and hills from every rooms defined further. Long, horizontal apertures and dramatically angled rooftops provide sweeping panoramas, while deeply-recessed overhangs offer shade and privacy to this family setting, providing a traditional take on the “American Porch”. The architecture frames the landscape, disappearing through the transparency of the glass doors while windows wide enough to flood the space with natural light.
Mausam – Feel of the Seasons
Client – Ajay Goel
Location – Chakrata
Category – Architecture + Interior
More than being low budget, this lodge is the outcome of a realisation that architecture need not be expensive and brand new. The attempt was to create awareness on the importance of having true-to self buildings rather than look alike ones. Placed along the contour, the spaces inside the structure are placed in three levels connected by a stair; two levels inside and then the final leading outside on a higher contour. The spaces are designed keeping in mind the dynamic requirements. Hence, the common spaces are expandable and the rest is kept optimum.