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Architects: unTAG
- Area: 7500 ft²
- Year: 2025
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Photographs:Pranit Bora Studio
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Manufacturers: Asian Paints, ECRA Fenestrations, GRAVA Stones, Jaquar Bath fittings, TRG Roofing Solutions
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Lead Architects: Gauri Satam and Tejesh Patil
Text description provided by the architects. Villa Familia is a tropical biophilic getaway in a gated Parsi neighborhood in Lonavala, India. The family's brief was to create a generational home nurturing togetherness, balancing intimacy with openness. The home has a dual personality, externally a modern architectural figurine punctuated with greens, while internally adorned with ancestral Parsi heirlooms. The house seeks a dialogue between landscape and built form, wherein the verandahs and balconies become pivotal transient spaces in the tropics. Unlike a monolith, the home unfolds as three distinct masses, woven by delicate passages. These passages are not merely corridors but breathing voids, bringing in light and air, framing picture-perfect views of immediate greens.
