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2021

Photographer : Agrawal Colour Vision

The house presents a splendid coalescence of traditional Vastu principles, climate-responsive forms and contemporary spatial arrangements. The client is a Indore's reputed real estate consultant and affable personality Client wanted a home that caters to the family's needs and entices his guests with comfortable, entertaining and leisurely spaces respecting neighboring properties and attaining privacy.

The site is located at a solitary intersection of an elite neighborhood, facing roads on the eastern and southern sides, a plot on the western side and farmland on the north. The unique shape of the site has an extruding corner in the northeastern direction and the other three sides straight.

The minimal form of the house follows the singular aesthetic while surprising visitors with contrasting wall elements. The intricate and cozy eastern entrance of the house contrasts with the lucid wall of the south. The alluring exposed concrete staircase, the cantilevered roof of the terrace garden, the pool; and volumed-up windows reflect and compliment the northern green gathering spaces.

The reserved southern side manages only services and maid entry and is plain & abstract to avoid harsh sun and heat. The house consists of three bedrooms, an external, internal and outdoor kitchen, a leisure room, a home theatre, a set of terraces, a garden with an outdoor pool and a temple. The house culminates as the sky ascends so is the celebration on the two terraces of the house. The smaller terrace enjoys the views of southern hills on winter noons while the larger terrace arranges the sit-outs on summer dusks to celebrate "Shab-e-malwa"-the famed Malva twilight. On the eastern side, the congenial main entry welcomes and intrigues one with ample verdure and a glimpse of the northern garden.

View from the northern garden

Strategically, considering sciography, the northern side of the site was kept open for usual functions with an outdoor kitchen in the northwest and a triangular temple in the northeast, aptly placed as per Vastu.

Indore,Madhya Pradesh,India

Architects	:	RKGA Consultants Pvt Ltd
Area	:	10000 sq. ft.
Year	:	2021
Website	:	https://www.rkgaltd.com/

The clever design of the temple with a glass pyramid roof converts the unique limitation of the plot to its advantage. The temple with the external kitchen on the northern edge of the plot harmonically provides an enclosure to the well thought open space of the site.

The house deploys itself on the north. The house interiors with tranquil lighting at all levels are designed as minimal in the visual and textural senses while keeping the idea of luxury intact. The guest room, doubled volume of the living and drawing rooms face the garden with an infinity pool. And the master bedroom has its personal garden view in the south.