Twilight courtyard with a marble stair, a reflecting pool and a table set for two

PRIVATE RESIDENCE, MANIPUR, AHMEDABAD Aatmaja VIEW PROJECT

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We build shade. Houses that negotiate with what is already standing on the site, and are quieter for it.

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Dark stone facade approached across a broad ceremonial stair set into deep planting

Aatmaja

MANIPUR, AHMEDABADPRIVATE RESIDENCE12,000 SQ FT

A house lifted above its own ground, entered across water and stone.

Exposed concrete and brick entrance elevation approached through mature planting

Achyutam

MAMATPURA, AHMEDABADPRIVATE RESIDENCE14,000 SQ FT

The footprint was choreographed around six existing sentinels.

Curved concrete boundary wall and red laterite entrance screen leading to the carport

Leela

BHADAJ, AHMEDABADPRIVATE RESIDENCEBOARD-FORMED CONCRETE

A laterite screen and a curved concrete wall announce the house before its name does.

Board-formed concrete wings of the house stepping around a lawn with a sculpted metal deer

Architecture

We begin with what the site already holds: the trees, the light, the neighbour’s wall, the direction the wind comes from in May. The plan is the answer to those constraints, not a shape imposed on them.

Restaurant booths in dark timber and charcoal upholstery beneath brass pendant lamps

Interiors

Interiors are not decoration applied afterwards. They are drawn at the same time as the walls, in the same materials, by the same hands. A brick that is exposed outside is exposed inside.

Lily pond and dense planting in front of a concrete pavilion framed by mature trees

Landscape

A garden is not what is left over after the building. On every project we have kept more trees than we have planted, and the plan was moved to do it.