Drift House on Little Much Farm / Shonan Purie Trehan + Language.Architecture.Body(LAB)

Curated by Clara Ott

Architects: Language.Architecture.Body(LAB)
Area: 8000 ft²
Year: 2018
Photographs:Sebastian Zacharia
Manufacturers: Roca, Acor, CRIL, EDRA, Macro, Porta Finestra
Lead Architect: Shonan Purie Trehan
Electrical and networking: Cardoz Consulting
Structure: Devang Sutaria
Contractor: IMPEX Engineers

Text description provided by the architects. The villa of ‘The Little Much Farm’ straddles a remote hill side location overlooking the Sahyadri hills of Mulshi and its lake. This is home for a family and their friends to re-engage in the environs of the hills that surround Bombay. The spaces are planned as a series of potential happenings; layered, connected, scalar, with an element of discovery.This is a site with multiple view points and extreme weather conditions. The design strategy of the roof provides shelter from both monsoon rain and the harsh sun; liberating the forms of the enclosures. The enclosures of the house are a composition of angles informed by the various draws of the site and the eccentricities of its owners. Three single slope mild steel roofs slant in distinct directions creating specific conditions; a windy but dry corner, a crack of sky above the entry, a sheltered monsoon walkway.