4 concrete volumes topped with pitched roofs run alongside one another to type Prism Home, a multi-generational residence designed by Indian studio Matra.
Situated within the south of Delhi, the six-bedroom residence was designed to supply non-public and communal dwelling areas for 3 generations of the consumer’s household.
Drawing inspiration from Vastu – a set of conventional Indian design ideas that goals to information the orientation of buildings to advertise a steadiness between people and nature – Matra unfold the house throughout 4 rectangular blocks, that are set at various heights and are made solely from concrete.
As properly utilizing native design ideas to tell the orientation of the house, the studio regarded in direction of conventional Indian courtyards when arranging the blocks on the location, making a lined inside entrance between the blocks that mimics the outdated central courtyards.
“The occupants, spanning three generations, strongly adhere to conventional Vastu ideas, a set of historical Indian planning directives which performed a major position in shaping the design,” Matra informed Dezeen.
“Nonetheless, this dedication to the ideas led to the position of the principle six-bedroom home in a climatically unfavourable location, near an adjoining neighbouring constructing.”
“Consequently, the architectural method required an ‘introverted’ constructing typology that also offered entry to bigger and smaller gardens,” it continued.
“The volumes intently clustered round a lined inside entrance vestibule are harking back to conventional dwelling quarters surrounding a courtyard, which displays the sense of neighborhood and shared actions inside the home.”
Topped with insulated precast concrete roofs, the buildings had been organized to obtain pure gentle and have skylights in addition to gardens of various sizes situated beneath roof openings that allow gentle into the encircling inside areas.
First-floor decks had been fashioned on both finish of the constructing the place the bottom ground extends past the staggered higher ranges, whereas massive home windows punctuate the outside.
A concrete wall extends alongside the sting of the location and is fitted with a gate that gives entry to the house’s backyard, which is lined with lengthy concrete slabs.
On the opposite facet of the backyard, Matra added a separate single-storey visitor suite and leisure house which mirrors the design of the principle home and is topped with an angular roof.
Inside the principle residence, a central stairwell connects the areas, the place a wood-lined concrete staircase leads up the centre of the void earlier than dividing into two and climbing up both facet to supply entry to each side of the higher stage.
A big lounge branches from one facet of the double-height circulation house, bordered by a patio.
Different areas on the bottom ground embody a kitchen, bed room and toilet, whereas a further dwelling and eating house stretches alongside the opposite facet of the stairwell.
The highest ground incorporates a number of research in addition to a bed room and two bogs, with the remainder of the bedrooms organized throughout the primary ground.
Throughout its three ranges, the six-bedroom residence has column-free interiors and warm-toned partitions and furnishings that distinction the concrete exterior.
“The construction depends on load-bearing concrete partitions and sloping concrete roofs, eliminating the necessity for extra columns and beams,” the studio defined.
“This not solely simplifies the structural design but in addition enhances the purity of the architectural type, accommodates punctures of assorted sizes within the concrete partitions, with out disrupting the spatial enclosure,” it continued.
“The division of areas permits for an entire and complicated dwelling expertise whereas considering the privateness and interplay wants of the members of the family.”
Different Indian houses that characteristic concrete embody a house constructed from cubic concrete volumes wrapped round a stairwell and a white home wrapped in a sculptural concrete ribbon.
The images is by Edmund Sumner.
