Type : Residential
Location : Maharani Bagh, New Delhi, India
Site area : 670 m²
Built-up area : 1675 m²
Status : Completed - 2017
Project Team : Verendra Wakhloo, Priyank Jain, Shweta Garg, Hitesh Katiyar, Sanjay Devrani, Ankit Jain, Mukesh Kumar
Photography : Edmund Sumner, Sergio Ghetti, Suryan Dang
Project Team : Verendra Wakhloo, Priyank Jain, Shweta Garg, Hitesh Katiyar, Sanjay Devrani, Ankit Jain, Mukesh Kumar
Photography : Edmund Sumner, Sergio Ghetti, Suryan Dang
Cities are and will certainly be centers of change, however, they need not be seen as only mercantile arrangements but as place, addressed towards people, their cultures, communities, climate and humanity-at large, to emerge as meaningful paradigms.
Inspiration
The growing densification in residential areas are affecting nearly all Indian cities and subsequent pressure on the infrastructure demand a rethinking of the existing building types. Change in pattern of living and trend towards maximizing covered area and FAR tend to erode more quality space.Le Corbusier professed in his “five-points” of architecture, published in the journal “ L’Esprit Nouveau”, the design of a new building type for the future city. today still have strong validity and the design of the S-Residence in south of Delhi elucidates four of his points .
1.Building on pilotis
2.The roof garden
3.The free plan
4.Free façade
Form
Two duplex units, dovetailed as two L-shaped juxtaposed building volumes, contain the stilt floor, ground floor/first floor and second floor/third floor respectively and are designed to accommodate the client’s brief consisting of two self-contained residences of similar area program.
The entire methodology of generating the comprehensive form is based on chiseling out vertical and horizontal volumes, enabling light penetration, vistas, insertion of structure/services and hanging gardens within.
Structure
Two exposed concrete cores of similar size integrate staircases/lift/MEP services and are the only structural support to the building above the stilt area. This nearly indiscernible arrangement reinforces the idea of spatial continuity and porosity of all spaces.
Material & construction
The monolithic textured concrete, created by use of pine wood shuttering, constitutes the main building material and blurs the distinction between structure and surface, inside and outside. In contrast, the bare rock form awaits natures dynamic.
