Indian studio Matharoo Associates has created Lower Bend Fold Play, a concrete residence in Chennai with inner courtyards and layered areas that deliver a sense of spaciousness to its compact city website.
Drawing on the courtyard typology typical to the realm, the home has an outwardly austere “hole shell” of board-marked concrete that opens up internally round a brilliant residing space and backyard courtyard.
“Borrowing from the concept of the normal Indian courtyard, giant voids are carved out from inside, bringing in ample gentle, air and greenery,” defined Ahmedabad studio Matharoo Associates.
“The biggest of those courts is positioned on the coronary heart of the home and seamlessly extends indoors at floor degree – an open versatile ground plate of the house’s residing areas.”
Lower Bend Fold Play occupies a compact website measuring 12.5 by 31 metres. Whereas referencing native vernacular, Matharoo Associates additionally included conventional Vastu rules into the design.
Vastu is a conventional Indian system of structure that dictates the structure and orientation of inside areas.
Entry to the home is through a slender facet passage alongside its edge, which opens into the double-height lounge and eating house connecting to the courtyard by way of sliding glass doorways.
To the north of the central house is a extra formal residing space, whereas to the south, the kitchen connects to a parking house and a employees residing quarter that’s independently accessible.
On the primary ground, three bedrooms are organised round a small upper-level courtyard. They overlook the central residing house from a touchdown space with balconies completed with metallic mesh balustrades.
The concrete partitions, ground plate and staircase “fold” and “bend” round each other, creating openings that give glimpses of the courtyards in addition to overhangs and balustrades.
“With the bottom ground nearly utterly freed from columns, the construction is generally suspended from above and handled as a steady concrete aircraft in three dimensions that encloses and connects the home in a seamless continuum of house,” stated Matharoo Associates.
“The planes reduce, bend, and fold to create a perceptible notion of motion inside the home – a composition of a seemingly gentle construction, held in delicate, precarious steadiness, and play.”
Matching the outside, the board-marked concrete has been left utterly uncovered within the interiors, complemented by minimal fittings and furnishings and darkish wooden doorways and storage.
Matharoo Associates was based by architect Gurjit Singh Matharoo in 1992, and former initiatives by the studio embody a house in Ahmedabad with spinning and sliding marble partitions.
Different concrete homes in India embody the Home of Concrete Experiments in Alibag by Samira Rathod Design Atelier, and Beton Brut in Ahmedabad by The Grid Architects.
The images is by Edmund Sumner.
Undertaking credit:
Architect, inside and panorama designer: Matharoo Associates
Undertaking workforce: Gurjit Singh Matharoo, Trisha Patel, Aliza Mehnaz, Sadar Bhadari
Structural design: Rushabh Consultants
Electrical advisor: Jit Engineering Providers Ltd
HVAC advisor: Pankaj Dhankar and Associates
Plumbing advisor: Aqua Utility Designs and Administration Pvt. Ltd
Normal contractor: J Ok Constructions
