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Cut Bend Fold Play House / Matharoo Associates

Miwa Negoro — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 02:00:00 +0000

The house for a migrant businessperson, his wife, and three daughters is located in the dense urban fabric of Chennai, a metropolis in southern India. The tight and narrow site of 41 x 102 feet (12.5 x 31 meters) is only open on one corner that connects it to the cul-de-sac. Being bound by houses on three sides, and a high apartment complex on its longer side, left little scope for light and ventilation, and deprived it of much of its privacy.

Trees Sliced Through Residence / Matharoo Associates

Miwa Negoro — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The city of Ahmedabad in Gujarat is in a sandy and dry area. It is almost flat, and in the recent past, measures have been taken to solve the problem of increased desertification around the city area due to the steady expansion of the nearby Rann of Kutch. The climate is of the hot semi-arid type with temperatures reaching up to 48'C, and it is extremely dry aside from the monsoon season, making it common for droughts to occur.

150 Steps up to the Sea House / Matharoo Associates

Hana Abdel — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 06:00:00 +0000

Alongside the major diamond and textile industry, recent other sectors such as oil, shipping and Metallurgy have contributed to the growth of Surat into a sprawling metropolis in a very short time, making it one of the richest cities in the country and one that is highly vibrant in character.

Plain Ties / Matharoo Associates

Hana Abdel — Mon, 07 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000

The site in the coastal city of Surat, is part of a quiet suburban gated community, albeit a unique one- being without intermediate compound walls. Barring the generous views to a large shared community garden on its South, the site is otherwise overlooked by high apartments and a neighboring house on its North and East sides - that intrude its privacy. Our intervention was to create a building that would turn its back to these neighboring buildings, and open towards the existing green - thereby magnifying the landscape manifold.

Stripped Mobius House / Matharoo Associates

Hana Abdel — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 03:00:00 +0000

The house for a real estate developer situated in the western suburbs of Ahmedabad, is on a secured plot abutted by an embellished villa on the East and large villas towards the North and West. The design is developed to screen this avoidable context of neighboring properties, while simultaneously negotiating Vaastu- the strict ancient guidelines that govern the shape and placement of spaces, water bodies and courts, down to the orientation of water closets and choice of colour.

Moving Landscapes / Matharoo Associates

Florencia Mena — Thu, 14 Jul 2016 22:00:00 +0000

The idea for moving landscape germinated from stumbling upon a stone, Bidasar Forest, that possesses an impression, as if, of tropical arid landscape fossilized within itself. Its polished surfaces against the native verdure of the Ahmedabad region made for the perfect setting, blurring the lines between reality and illusion.

Net House / Matharoo Associates

Victoria King — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000

The relentlessly varying weather of the city of Ahmedabad exemplifies the typical tropical climate of extremes: short winters, wet humid monsoons and long dry scorching summers. Though less prevalent today, in our childhood we slept outdoors when the cool night breezes came as a reliever. We would tuck ourselves under a machardani, a simple net held up by four intersecting bamboo poles, locked between the legs of our charpouy cot. This would become our private domain, a safe haven protecting from insects, harsh light and parents’ eyes.

Parents House In Ajmer / Matharoo Associates

Victoria King — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000

The Rajasthani city of Ajmer is an important destination on the Muslim pilgrimage trail and its suburb Pushkar also bears huge religious significance for Hindus. With a complex, dense and at times chaotic urban grain, despite its mofussil flotsam Ajmer exudes a slow pace of life. Pensioners typically retire to Ajmer, eager to enjoy its adjacency to both the Aravali foothills and lake below and retreat into laid back twilight years.

Flashback: Prathama Blood Centre / Matharoo Associates

Victoria King — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000

The Center has its origins in an Invited Architectural Competition in 1998. The promoters, Advanced Transfusion Medical Research Foundation, a not for profit charitable trust, envisioned a place that would revolutionalize voluntary blood collection and blood component disbursal without replacement, at affordable costs through professional management. ‘Prathama’ was to be the country’s first, situated in Ahmedabad. Being a pioneering endeavor, the building had to be a new ‘type’, where the challenge was to make a service intensive medical entity into a playful, intuitive receptacle, by removing the repulsion associated with medical facilities and transforming it into an inviting public domain. Located on a non-descript corner plot donated by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation, the site offered no specific context to begin with.

Pavapuri Guest House / Matharoo Associates

Megan Jett — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000

From its humble inception as an initiative to feed, shelter and protect stray cows otherwise intended for slaughter, this expanse at Pavapuri in Rajasthan has grown into a large religious campus containing temples, prayer halls and residential facilities, visited by 500,000 people yearly - not to mention the herd of 6,000 to 12,000 cows that comprise its permanent residents. Traditionally having been constructed by Sompuras, temple craftsmen, buildings other than the main shrines remained in the shadows. The need for a new dharamshala – religious guest house, which would stay true to its spiritual roots whilst performing the seemingly contradictory function of providing pilgrims with creature comforts, created a rare opportunity.