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Sumit Singhal
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. A House of Small Talks in Tamil Nadu, India by WARPOctober 2nd, 2018 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: WARP On account of rapid urbanization and gentrification of Indian cities, construction and design typologies of houses have become more and more formulaic based on the locally prevailing trends and thus losing their connection with the Neighbour and the Nature. The house is located in a crowded residential neighborhood of Coimbatore within a typical residential block. The design tries to create dialogues between, the house & its neighbourhood and the spaces in-between : built and un-built. Within the precinct; dialogue of the inhabitants and spaces.  Image Courtesy © Prasanth Mohan and Running Studios
 Image Courtesy © Prasanth Mohan and Running Studios The house is set aback from the street breathing a landscape into congested street making the house perceivable at a glance. Each function of the house is identified as individual volumes and then introduced to a game of twisting, stacking and interlocking creating spaces that overlap spatially and converging angles to a point where the inside meets the outside. The spaces formed due to the irregular angles lets the inhabitants discover the use of same space differently every time. This allows changing equations between all the components of the house defining the act of living.  Image Courtesy © Prasanth Mohan and Running Studios  Image Courtesy © Prasanth Mohan and Running Studios The twisting of the central block creates a courtyard around which the rest of the block are pivoted, the courtyard visually binds all the spaces together and hence rightly becomes the house of the deity( Pooja room), the idea of having the divine look over the house. A 16ft high charred wood free standing wall forms a backdrop around which the living room and stairs are phrased spilling conterminous volumes into each other. Skylights over spaces provide a ever changing movement of light through the day rendering different moods and experiences.  Image Courtesy © Prasanth Mohan and Running Studios  Image Courtesy © Prasanth Mohan and Running Studios Natural wood, charred wood, exposed concrete ceiling with dark rustic tones are balanced by plain white walls and green spurs of plants. An amalgamation of forms, volumes, light, landscape and in-surging territories creates an ambience to discover and experience as we go past time from one day to the next.  Image Courtesy © Prasanth Mohan and Running Studios  Image Courtesy © Prasanth Mohan and Running Studios The two illustrations place the design in contrasting environments changing its equation with its proximities in each scenario:
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