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Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination. AURELIA / HOUSE UNDER A POOL in Maharashtra, India by SHROFFLEoNOctober 23rd, 2017 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: SHROFFLEoN Alibagh, often referred to as the Hamptons of Mumbai, is the location of choice for the Second Homes of Mumba is many. It is here, within the hilly village of Katalpada set amidst an exceptionally beautiful context of rolling undulated landscape, boasting of instagrammable views and surrounded by several picturesque hills, earmarked to be forest lands, does Aurelia find itself situated.  Image Courtesy © PHOTOGRAPHIX
 Image Courtesy © PHOTOGRAPHIX The city based clients wished for their weekend home to offer an experience that is a near impossibility in an urban context such as Mumbai – luxurious larger than life outdoor living, and a feeling of being one with nature.  Image Courtesy © PHOTOGRAPHIX  Image Courtesy © PHOTOGRAPHIX Programmatically, the brief given was clear – an annex to their existing structure in the form of a standalone two bedroom home, having a spectacular pool – a pool that utilizes the landscape as the primary design element, overshadowing the program of the old and the new and becoming the glue that ties together the home.  Image Courtesy © PHOTOGRAPHIX  Image Courtesy © PHOTOGRAPHIX Being perched on the top of a hill, our design takes advantage of the existing sloped terrain, by orienting the aqua marine infinity pool in the direction of the landscape and the views beyond. The space then created under the pool houses an independent two bedroom home – a glass house, that by its sheer siting, blurs spaces within into the landscape beyond.  Image Courtesy © PHOTOGRAPHIX  Image Courtesy © PHOTOGRAPHIX The pool being infinity on all sides overspills into a smaller waterbody under, which then forms a cascading waterfall, becoming the backdrop to the primary seating in the living room of the glass house.  Image Courtesy © PHOTOGRAPHIX  Image Courtesy © PHOTOGRAPHIX Perpendicular to the feature white infinity pool, the home has a black 8” deep lounging water body, that allows for unrestricted views and overspills with a gurgling ambient sound, over a textured treated random rubble stone wall into a larger black water body under, with a white Vetro clad Jacuzzi positioned inbetween the two. These waterbodies have embedded within them 1500 fibre optic lights, that change in colour, enhancing the atmosphere of luxury post sundown.  Image Courtesy © PHOTOGRAPHIX  Image Courtesy © PHOTOGRAPHIX  Image Courtesy © PHOTOGRAPHIX The two bedrooms overlook on opposite sides, with the forest suite turning its back on the property, enjoying an outdoor patio with views to the hills across, and the master suite opening up on both ends, with a view to the forest, as well as the dressed random rubble waterfall.  Image Courtesy © PHOTOGRAPHIX  Image Courtesy © PHOTOGRAPHIX  Image Courtesy © PHOTOGRAPHIX The open space around the infinity pool, the main entertainment area of the home has two free flowing organic grass pods forming informal gathering spaces and houses an ecomesh barbeque pavilion – a structure to be overtaken by nature in time, to form a folly of flowers.  Image Courtesy © PHOTOGRAPHIX  Image Courtesy © PHOTOGRAPHIX  Image Courtesy © PHOTOGRAPHIX The landscape within the proposal plays a vital role in the making of place, as that is there that the client will spend most of their time being enveloped within nature.  Image Courtesy © PHOTOGRAPHIX  Image Courtesy © PHOTOGRAPHIX  Image Courtesy © PHOTOGRAPHIX  Image Courtesy © SHROFFLEoN  Image Courtesy © SHROFFLEoN  Image Courtesy © SHROFFLEoN
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