A curvilinear form, large glazed windows, and a natural material palette tie this spacious contemporary home into lush surroundings on the outskirts of Ahmedabad in western India. Ahmedabad-based architecture firm MODO Designs crafted the breezy home—named The Verandah House—for their clients, the Munshaw family, who sought a home that would embrace the outdoors and be filled with natural light. The home’s curvaceous form derives its inspiration from an old ancestral house as well as from the existing natural topography and features.
Located on a lushly planted four-acre plot, the 6,781-square-foot Verandah House serves as an antidote to city living. The clients previously owned a 20th-century colonial style house in a densely populated area in Ahmedabad and desired a new home that avoided “a rigid box formation.” The brief called for an indoor-outdoor design with large interiors to accommodate the family’s collection of artifacts, paintings, Persian rugs, books and ancestral furniture.
The home is defined by a spacious veranda with a cantilevered roof that wraps around the east side of the home. The house bends to optimize views of the lily pond, which can be seen from the entry veranda as well as the lower and upper verandas. Inside, the house is organized around a daylit central spine that divides the living room, dining area, library and master bedroom from the secondary bedrooms, kitchen and storage areas housed in the rear bay. A large parking deck occupies the north end of the site.
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“The house is a fusion of raw character of outdoor spaces and the finesse of the interiors,” wrote the architects. “The exterior material palette is natural jute panels on the curving beam face, Valsadi wood paneling, and doors, concrete ceilings, terracotta colored rough surface and rough Kotah stone flooring. This is further complemented by old renovated wood and cane furniture in the verandah spaces. The interior space, in contrast, has white walls, polished Kotah stone. The interior space fuses old and customized new furniture along with lots of artifacts, paintings, and Persian rugs.”
Via ArchDaily
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