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Mehul Patel Residence / Groundwork Architecture

Hana Abdel — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 15:00:00 +0000

The residence for Mr. Mehul Patel is built on the land of 1560 sq. mt and is in the western part of Ahmedabad in Bhopal. The client is a real estate developer working on various residential and commercial projects in Ahmedabad. Their brief for us was to design a house for their family of 5 people with private living areas, including formal and family living dining, kitchen, entertainment room, and four bedrooms. Beyond the functional requirements, they were keen to build a house with an open-to-sky courtyard, which could become integral to the living areas. The requirement was to use Vaastu principles to organize the overall layout.

The Hovering House / Modo Designs

Hana Abdel — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 19:00:00 +0000

This house, as a collaboration between Modo Designs and interior designer Anarr Gunjaria, was an effort to interpret the needs and lifestyle of 3 generations who were to reside here. The main intent behind the design of this house was to ensure maximum openness through an L formation and a hovering mass. To further open up the layout, a central court and semi-open verandah is adjoining it that allows spatial flow and naturally lights up the spaces.

The Monolithic House / MODO Designs

Hana Abdel — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 01:00:00 +0000

The site is on the outskirts of Ahmedabad with farmlands around. The brief given by the owner was to design a house that would have open spaces within and a greener patch on the outside. The proposed design is a central courtyard house with spaces around it and interspersed by open to sky spaces to connect the central court to the peripheral open spaces. The central court is the soul of the house having a sitting deck and bit of plantations surrounded by loose brown mandana kapci. The court has remote operated fabricated roof which is mostly kept open during the day for natural light and ventilation.

Villa in the Woods / Studio Lotus

Hana Abdel — Sat, 28 May 2022 21:00:00 +0000

Located between Bhimtal and Mukteshwar in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, the Villa in the Woods is part of a master plan designed to promote conscious community living amidst 90 acres of Himayalan forests of deodar, sal, oak, and rhododendron. With direct access from India’s capital New Delhi, it lies in the Kumaon range of the Himalayas at an altitude of 6,700 feet. The brief for the masterplan development was centred around building a self-sufficient community in the hills, living in harmony with nature. The design scheme factors in detailed analyses of the existing terrain, slopes, vegetation, surface drainage patterns, and soil types. These studies were done to identify strategies for watershed management, stormwater management, and potential areas for development to minimize cut-and-fill and avoid disturbing the site’s ecology.

Dalal House / Groundwork Architecture

Hana Abdel — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 20:00:00 +0000

Dalal Hose is built on a plot area of 1,000 sq. mt. with 20m street frontage and 50m depth. The house is designed with the idea of creating a family living domain at the rear with all the key family areas facing the backyard in the east. The building uses natural brick and concrete as the main external finish with minimal use of plastered surfaces in functional areas. The house is spatially organized on three levels with five bedrooms, formal living, family living and dining areas, a private gym, and a party lounge with a large veranda facing the backyard.

Institute of Engineering and Technology – Ahmedabad University / Vir.Mueller Architects

Karen Valenzuela — Wed, 05 May 2021 22:00:00 +0000

The architectural design for the Institute of Engineering and Technology at Ahmedabad University exemplifies the typology of an academic quadrangle - a central courtyard garden, flanked by student and faculty rooms. Timeless yet contemporary, this cloister anchors a community of students and scholars - many of whom are the first in their families to attend college.

A Home for the Guptas / Raghuveer Kathpalia

Hana Abdel — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 01:00:00 +0000

This is a home for a family of 7 people and it is located in Sanand, Gujarat. The home has been an inquiry into what it means to settle, one of the many ways in which one can do that. It began with the question of how will one perceive the landscape of the site once it’s been occupied and conditioned using the tools of construction vis a vis how it was seen before. how will how one traverse over the same piece of land post construction. What will one look into, over and at?

Inside out House / Modo Designs

Hana Abdel — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 21:00:00 +0000

The owners wanted a house which was airy and with all the bedrooms which would overlook their backyard garden and yet address privacy and security concerns. With this a primary brief we first started mapping the existing trees on site, some of which were mango trees and developed layouts which would retain and weave these trees. The layout also explored incorporating archtypal indian courtyards which would then seemlessly blend into their internal spaces.

The Elemental House / Modo Designs

Valeria Silva — Sat, 13 Jun 2020 23:00:00 +0000

This house situated in one of the developing parts of north west Ahmedabad is a dwelling place for three generation of a family. The site has linear proportions with an existing neem tree on western part, and the house layout exploits this linearity of the site through a unique organization of three layers of open spaces, the front garden, the central courtyard and the backyard. Essentially the spaces are around the central open courtyard that lets the natural light and ventilation within the spaces and connects the spaces to the natural elements. The central court is open ended on north and is a contemporary interpretation of the traditional enclosed courtyard of Indian dwellings.

Tower House / BandukSmith Studio

Rayen Sagredo — Thu, 01 Nov 2018 19:00:00 +0000

Tower House is an experiment in vertical living. A typical bungalow of 400 square meters is squeezed into a footprint of 6.5 x 12.5m, forcing the program up five stories rather than spread along the ground. Despite the stacked floors, the design generates the experience of living in a house, with a diversity of spatial types throughout its section. At the same time, it takes advantage of the benefits of moving vertically with efficiently organized services, views across the city, and greater potentials for both stack and cross ventilation.

Asian Games Village Residence / Vir.Mueller Architects

Pilar Caballero — Sun, 14 Oct 2018 18:00:00 +0000

After two decades of practice and designing projects for ‘others’, 288 distills - in an undiluted form - the design principles, material sensibilities, phenomenal aspirations and tactile experiments of vir.mueller architects.

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.