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C O N C E P T, I D E A S & P RO D U C E D B Y Sanjay Dhingra C R E AT I V E D I R E C T I O N The Design Studio, Border Books GRAPHIC EDITING The Design Studio, Border Books P RO J E C T I N C H A RG E Manish Grover E D I TO R Medha Sobti TIMELESS LIVING| HOUSES UNDER THE SUN Copyright@2019 by Borders Books PUBLISHED BY BORDER BOOKS Email: borderbooks@hotmail.com www.boderbooks.in DISTRIBUTED BY SBD Subscription Services 51/1, New Market Near Liberty Cinema, Karol Bagh New Delhi-110005 (INDIA) sbdbooks@gmail.com COPYRIGHT No part of these pages, either text or images may be used for any purpose other than personal use. Therefore, reproduction, modification, storage in a retrieval system or retransmission, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, or otherwise, for reasons other than personal use, is strictly prohibited without prior written permission. ISBN 9788193232989 PRINT & BOUND Make in India
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CONT E NTS
FOREWARD 6 PROF. Christopher Charles Benninger
PREFACE 9 Medha sobti
222 CORBEL HOUSE | BANGALORE KAMAT & ROZARIO ARCHITECTURE 232 RAMBAUGH RESIDENCY | BURHANPUR PAREKH COLLABORATIVE
CHANCERY LANE HOUSE | SINGAPORE ERNESTO BEDMAR ARCHITECTS
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246 TREE VILLA at Forest Hills | tala Architecture BRIO
forever house | singapore Wallflower Architecture + Design
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258 AN ENGINEER'S HOUSE | SURAT ESSTEAM
Stark House | SINGAPORE Park + Associates Pte Ltd
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270 SKEWED HOUSE | SURAT STUDIO LAGOM
see through house | singapore Wallflower Architecture + Design
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282 VANVAASO | SURAT DESIGN WORK GROUP
CORNWALL GARDENS | SINGAPORE CHANG ARCHITECTs
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294 THE VASTU VILLA | BANGALORE STUDIO TAB
secret garden house | singapore Wallflower Architecture + Design
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304 J HOUSE | DELHI SPACES ARCHITECTS@KA
double bay | sydney SAOTA & TKD
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314 KSHANA | SURAT B.DESIGN 24 STUDIO
pine tree | miami 104 saota
324 PARADISO RESIDENCE | PUNE TAO ARCHITECTURE PVT. LTD.
stradella | Los Angeles 116 saota
336 MADHAV | VADODARA DIPEN GADA & ASSOCIATES
CEST LA VIE | ALIBAGH 130 ADND (Atelier Design n Domain)
348 KAILASHA | DELHI ATREY ASSOCIATES
5 ELEMENT HOUSE | PAVANA 144 STUDIO PKA
360 VERANDAH HOUSE | AHMEDABAD VIPUL PATEL ARCHITECTS
SAMRUDHI BUNGLOW | VADODARA 158 USINE STUDIO
372 BUNGALOW BILLIMORIA REVERSE ROOF | BILLIMORIA AMIT SHASTRI ARCHITECTS & INTERIOR DESIGNER
LINEAR HOUSE | ANAND 172 DIPEN GADA & ASSOCIATES
384 Leisure Pavilion | SRI LANKA PALINDA KANNANGARA ARCHITECTS
THE OPEN HOUSE | MUMATPURA 184 MODO DESIGNS
394 POLWATHTHA HOUSE | SRI LANKA CHINTHAKA WICKRAMAGE ASSOCIATES
KIRTI RESIDENCE | VADODARA 196 UNEVEN
406 NIKUNJO RESIDENCE | DHAKA SHATOTTO
417 Contributors
AURELIA - HOUSE UNDER A POOL| ALIBAGH 208 SHROFFLEON
424 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
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FOREW O R D The Contemporary Asian House: An Evolution Civilization has been a continuous narrative of people gathering together into larger and larger communities, composed of family groups joining into social milieus, holding cherished sets of common values and ideals! Responding to this, civilization has created habitable artifacts that enshrine social structure and culture within dwellings, thereby becoming more complex, as social groups became larger, more articulated and organized! So, the plans of houses, from prehistoric times to the present, are the footprints of our history. Thus, this book is a marker on the timeline of Asia’s historical evolution, documenting the state of society and its dwellings. Redefining the “family” from a biological group to a social entity, was the first step of mankind toward the creation of civil societies, and the first shelters to be found are simple dwelling-forms, even adapted from caves. These early dwellings were simple shelters, protecting their inhabitants from climatic extremities, essential for survival in extreme conditions of rain, cold or heat. Even today, in the dwellings showcased within this book, adaptation to climate is a major determining design factor, generating house-forms and shapes. Families vigorously protected their genetic blood lines, running through child birth, in matriarchal or patriarchal lineage! Over the eons of time, families aligned into tribes, formed of genetically related clans, wherein marriage rites and convivial living modalities were key organizing elements of social processes. The settlement footprints of these early societies illustrate clusters of similarly shaped houses, organized into “sociometries” where the patriarch’s house, while being of similar shape, was larger and took on a more central position within the cluster. The location of spiritualists’ houses and shrines likewise began to take positions in the sociometry of settlements. House plans became microcosms, or mirrors, of these settlements, with each house having a “sacred place,” and a secure portal, and protective walls. These generic features live with us in our homes today! House making became more definitive as societies transformed from huntergatherer, nomadic communities, into herdsmen living within their animal’s habitat corridors, and then finally settling into more stable agricultural communities. As people’s places of living became more site specific and stable, so also occupational specializations emerged.
Prof. Christopher Charles Benninger Architect & Founder, CCBA design
House types within simple hamlets began to vary in accordance with the occupations of families. Families with similar occupations, sharing common resources, began to cluster into specialized small neighborhoods, or what we call “wadis,” in the Subcontinent! The domestication of animals also impacted on house types as agriculturists’ herds were their wealth, and kept within, or under, the same structure within which the family lived. Something akin to the “carports” found within these pages! Tribal federations, having the same ethnic features, cultural mores, language, gods and goddesses organized in small geo-climatic regions, and thus,
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clusters of these land-based communities merged into kingdoms, whose societies evolved systems of military protection, financial exchange, trading, market towns, with revenue collection based on organized agriculture. Indigenous communities transformed from sharing common fates, resources and lives, into a hierarchy of wealth holders and occupational specializations, needing armies to protect their wealth. Large houses began to evolve into small fortresses, having walls with small apertures and rooftop parapets, from which archers could shoot! Kingdoms emerged with armies, tax collection systems, administrative hierarchies, and thus larger and larger settlements morphed from hamlets, into walled towns and fortress cities, with palaces in their centre, often at the highest level of the city. In all of this seeming chaos of change, the dwelling unit, as a typology of built form, evolved in terms of its technology, and articulation into more specific functions. Security from climate, from theft, from amorous neighbors, and from pillaging thieves all became performance criteria, as in the dwellings displayed in this book. Slowly, the spaces for women became more protected and remote in the plans, and associated with sacredness and purity. The greeting and socializing spaces were associated with the out-ofdoors, or semi-public clan courtyards leading into lanes. Along which other clansmen’s courtyards these were inter-connected into male dominated zones. The outer walls of these early hamlets formed defense barriers from wild animals and marauding thieves. The contemporary houses, herein, also place the kitchens and sacred spaces within interior locations, and have “statements,” as portals, connecting with the public streets. Compound walls are common across Asia where security is a major design consideration, while interestingly all the case study houses within this book are far more “open,” and transparent, than houses designed just twenty years ago, or earlier. There is clearly a trend of contemporary Asian homes to open out into gardens, like modern California houses of the Twentieth Century did. Interestingly, throughout the last millennium, houses became psychological labels, or “signs,” of the people who have lived within them. One could make out a Brahmin’s house, a Kashatriya’s house, a Vaishya’s house, or a Shudra’s house from their unique external styles and interior organizations. Different religious communities also evolved their own styles, even adopting foreign influences far back into medieval times. Gradually systems of written rules of social behavior began to stabilize and organize societies within geographic regions by the end of the Nineteenth Century, when the idea of constitutional nations, ruled by laws, emerged.
During this period house designs of the well-to-do began to be governed by “styles and fashions.” In America, there was a Federalist Period Style, a Gothic Revival, and a Georgian Style, and many others leading up to post-World War Two Suburban Ranch, Spanish Colonial and Classical styles. Palladian architecture spread around the globe and can be seen in the White House in Washington, in Indian millionaires’ homes in Pune, and in colonial buildings of Singapore. People of similar occupations and incomes began to cluster into the homogeneous neighborhoods. Urban patterns and city types evolved, and today we are the inheritors of this same system of organization. Contemporary Asian families prefer to live in neighborhoods composed of homogeneous social and economic groups. Over the ensuing Twentieth Century of wars, aggressions and disputes, nations began to consolidate with each other into still larger regional communities like the European Union, SAARC, and of course the United Nations. Economically, “globalization,” spearheaded by electronic media, began to create a “global society,” and a “global architecture.” And, as in the past, common house types, and common international styles emerged, and began to convey the same social messages within national societies and even internationally. An analysis of the house plans, and “languages” of the houses from various Asian countries within this book, inform us of an emerging global society and architectural language. There was a time when Gujarati havelis were distinct from Maharashtrian wadas, which were also distinct from Chettinad Houses of Tamil Nadu, or shop houses in Singapore; no longer! We can see in this book an interesting convergence of life styles, along with building styles. Thus, houses emerged in the early Twenty-first Century in Asia as global “products,” driven by media, styles and branding. Throughout history the houses people built for themselves mirrored the fantasies of who they wanted to be, reflecting imaginary visions of what they yearned to become. People have assembled their aspirations from what they have seen, and the history of our imagination is written in what we build. We now glean aspirations from the Internet, films, and magazines. We see what our celebrities and stars do, developing expectations out of these nascent images. House building, more than any other human activity, embodies the extent of our dreams and imaginations.
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FACT FILE PROJECT TITLE CHANCERY LANE HOUSE LOCATION OF PROJECT NOVENA, SINGAPORE Built Up Area 1247.89 sq. mt. ARCHITECTURE FIRM ERNESTO BEDMAR ARCHITECTS PRINCIPAL ARCHITECT ERNESTO BEDMAR DESIGN TEAM TAN CHIEW HONG YAP SHAN MING Structural Engineer THAM & WONG LLP CIVIL CONTRACTOR HUAT BUILDERS LANDSCAPE CONSULTANT ERNESTO BEDMAR ARCHITECTS PHOTO CREDITS CLAUDIO MANZONI Year of Completion 2016
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FACT FILE PROJECT TITLE Stark House LOCATION OF PROJECT Singapore Site Area 9600 sq. ft. ARCHITECTURE FIRM Park + Associates Pte Ltd PRINCIPAL ARCHITECT Lim Koon Park DESIGN TEAM Christina Thean, Phachara Atiratana, Adrian Abano Gesmundo, Siriphong Saksurasub, Mutiara Herawati Structural Consultant C P Lim & Partners LLP CIVIL Consultant C P Lim & Partners LLP PHOTO CREDIT Edward Hendricks Year of completion 2018
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FACT FILE PROJECT TITLE Pine Tree LOCATION OF PROJECT Miami, United States BUILD UP AREA 20,075 SQ. FT. ARCHITECTURE FIRM SAOTA PRINCIPAL ARCHITECT Mark Bullivant DESIGN TEAM Philip Olmesdahl Mark Bullivant Andrew Moerdyk CIVIL CONTRACTOR Brodson Construction LANDSCAPE CONSULTANT Raymond Jungles PHOTO CREDITS Dan Forer Year of Completion 2016
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1. GYM 2. VESTIBULE 3. BEDROOM 4. LAWN 5. PLANTER BRIDGE 6. SWIMMING POOL BELOW 7. BEDROOM 2 8. SEMI-OUTDOOR LOUNGE 9. STORE 10. CASUAL DINING 11. LIBRARY BELOW 12. LIFT 13. LANDSCAPED PORCH 14. KOI POND BELOW
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SITE / ROOF PLAN 1. ROOF GARDEN 2. KOI POND BELOW 3. PLANTER BRIDGE 4. SWIMMING POOL BELOW 5. SKYLIGHT 6. GLAZED TRELLIS 7. LANDSCAPED PORCH
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MATERIAL SPECIFICATIONS FLOORING : Limestone, Sandstone, Slate INTERIOR FINISHES : Cement Plaster, Paint, Terrazzo Finish, Exposed Brick LIGHT FIXTURES : customised KITCHEN FIXTURES : Franke SANITARY WARE & CP FITTINGS : Kohler, Jaquar, Hindware FURNITURE : customised SOFT FURNISHINGS : customised
1. ENTRANCE FOYER 2. ENTRANCE LOUNGE 3. LIVING ROOM 4. DINING 5. DRY KITCHEN 6. WET KITCHEN 7. UTILITY 8. POWDER ROOM 9. PROJECTION ROOM 10. EDITING ROOM 11. PATIO 12. POND 13. DECK 14. POOL 15. THE AANGAN 16. FOYER 17. LOUNGE 18. MASTER BEDROOM
19. MASTER DRESS 20. MASTER BATH 21. COURT 22. BEDROOM-1 23. PATIO(BEDROOM-1) 24. BATH/DRESSING 25. BEDROOM-2 26. DRESSING 27. BATH 28. PATIO(GUEST BLOCK) 29. GUEST BEDROOM 30. GUEST BATH 31. FOYER 32. POWDER ROOM 33. BALCONY 34. DECK 35. DEN 36. TERRACE
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FACT FILE PROJECT TITLE SAMRUDHI BUNGLOW LOCATION OF PROJECT VADODARA,GUJARAT Built Up Area 975 sq. m. Design firm USINE STUDIO Principal Designer YATIN KAVAIYA JITEN TOSAR DESIGN TEAM NIRALI BHAKTA CHITRA SINDHKAR Structural Engineer A.A.Desai CIVIL CONTRACTOR AJAY PATEL LANDSCAPE CONSULTANT Dhrumil Kantharia PMC Consultant Nimesh Panchal PHOTO CREDITS TEJAS SHAH Year of Completion 2016
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above | The front view, displaying horizontal scale and definition. below | section detail
SECTION 1 NORTH-SOUTH THROUGH MASTER BEDROOM AND VERANDAH
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SECTION 2 NORTH-SOUTH THROUGH VERANDAH, LIVING AREA AND COURTYARD
SECTION 3 EAST-WEST THROUGH VENTRY VESTIBULE, LIVING AREA AND POOL
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above | A pair of monolithic loungers, poised to stare over the railing at the refreshing scenery, perfectly completes the romantic setting. opposite above | An outdoor sitting deck just outside the glass house. opposite below | A sleek pedestal lamp, a corner piece of the huge open air living room seems spread out a couple of steps above the boardwalk.
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above | The front faรงade with minimal features and covered with greens. left | section & elevation details 27
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FACT FILE PROJECT TITLE TREE VILLA at Forest Hills LOCATION OF PROJECT Tala, MAHARASHTRA Built Up Area 225 sq.m. ARCHITECTURE FIRM Architecture BRIO PRINCIPAL ARCHITECT Shefali Balwani Robert Verrijt DESIGN TEAM Robert Verrijt Shefali Balwani Khushboo Asrani CIVIL CONTRACTOR Tala Properties LANDSCAPE CONSULTANT Architecture BRIO PHOTO CREDITS ©2017 Photographix | Sebastian + Ira Year of Completion 2017
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above | The louvers system with an openable layer of glass, from wall to wall, allowing an incessant draft of breeze flowing across the rooms. below | The louvers control amount of light, wind, rain, and dust entering the space. opposite above | In terms of materiality, the house is wedded to a palette which is natural and far away from anything synthetic. opposite below | A seamless connection of the inside and outside, adorned by louvers.
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right | The doubleheight living area exuberating bold colors and hanging lights. opposite above | A perspective view of the villa with the cantilevered slab in focus and greens around. opposite below | The refreshing garden and deck area in front of the living area.
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FACT FILE PROJECT TITLE Leisure Pavilion LOCATION OF PROJECT Colombo SRI LANKA Built Up Area 1913 sq.ft. ARCHITECTURE FIRM PALINDA KANNANGARA ARCHITECTS PRINCIPAL ARCHITECT PALINDA KANNANGARA DESIGN TEAM PALINDA KANNANGARA (Principal Architect) Savindrie Nanayakkara Structural Engineer M.A.P Wickremaratne CIVIL CONTRACTOR D & S constructions LANDSCAPE CONSULTANT Palinda Kannangara Architects PHOTO CREDITS Sebastian Posingis Varuna Gomis Year of Completion 2011
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