architecture
Hanamizu ANM Architecture, a studio based in Mumbai, designed and executed ‘Hanamizu’ – a silent home within the quiet village of Dhokavde in Alibaug – a wall and a box.
Text: Ruturaj Parikh Images & Data: courtesy ANM Architecture
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he house is located within a plantation of Mango, Chikoo and other local trees. A cube is broken, fragmented and re-formed to create a consolidation of spaces around a courtyard. Bold lines, dynamic planes and obsessively detailed objects compose the structure. To appreciate the built environment on the two-acre site, one has to go back and dwell on the process. Architecture is to be drawn on paper, formed into models, imagined in scale and experienced in the making. Through an extensive process of drawing, making, thinking and re-making, the house took shape. Efforts to transform an intuitive idea of environment into a finished living object are perceived from the process.