This Courtyard Home in Tamil Nadu Has Gardens At Every Level! (House Tour

This particular home is actually a good combination of architecture and landscape which weaves into one entity. It's a home where there are a lot of multiple green layers which in turn acts as the curtains for the entire multiple volumes which is actually in the house. The walls get dissolved into the living reality of the house also. Be it the vegetation around, be it the landscape around, forms as a veil which covers all these built volumes. So that's why it's called as veiled volumes. This is Architect Pradeep Varun from Warp Architects Coimbatore. Join me for an exclusive home tour of veiled volumes in Coimbatore. So to watch premium videos and access PDF ebooks with house plans, log in to buildofi.com The link is in the description below. Here we wanted to have a very good home which was tucked in silence. Located at a locality called Kalapati which is slightly off from the city. We met this client post COVID. So he was staying in a 10 to 12 cents property earlier. So when he approached us his main requirement was he wanted a bigger plot. The reason being of course like as everyone know during COVID being in a small house so they wanted to move to a larger area plot area where they can have a lot of green spaces. So he had chose a plot which is about 70 cents in total which is roughly 30,000 square feet. So the whole site is actually sloping towards south. For vastu we had to fill the whole site by another two to three feet and we had to raise the plinth by another three four feet actually. So we had a nice buffer in the front. Let's say one fourth of the site was left empty and balance the three-fourth was tucked inside the complete site. So as we come into the house through the gate we wanted to tuck the building slightly inside the site so that it kind of emaculates the building height and also emphasize on the landscape that opens towards the architectural build form. As one moves through the foyer this space acts as a transition and becomes the most connective part of the house. This particular space we wanted to have lighter flooring and want to make the space more brighter and lighter. So as soon as you enter the foyer area towards the left is this formal living which opens out into a nice larger outdoor area. Completely divided the whole house into three different zones. Zone one that's more of public, the second zone the central zone which is more of semi-private and the rear portion which is more of private zone. There are three different zones. So the very first discussion that we had with client was he wanted a nice double height a core space which is the dining and the living space combined together. So we had larger bigger openings in the house say for example the double height space almost 70-80% of the walls were all open. Client was very persistent on closing those particular walls and he was very skeptical about keeping it until end of the project. But once when landscape came in he said he was happy about it. So when it comes to flooring for all the common spaces the formal living, informal living, dining, pooja and all these common spaces we went with a bigger format tiles. It's all satin finish tile that's what we have used it on the floor. I mean being from Coimbatore in our particular region I mean people do generally believe in Vastu. In Vastu it gives a good space to locate two courtyards which is one on the eastern side which is the open to sky courtyard which houses the swimming pool. We have given a 16 feet by 35 feet wide deck an outdoor deck which also has an outdoor living and also has an outdoor dining also. But I can see I mean the clients are not preferring the inside and they prefer they prefer more to sit outside and to use the living and the dining outside which is there. There's a nice courtyard which also has a swimming pool which is open to sky. On western side it's more of a private courtyard which houses the bar area and a small swing portion which is on the western side. There's a small pooja here which is facing east so when there's light coming in in the morning this actually hits this pooja also. So that's where we wanted to place the pooja here. But the key was to give a good cross ventilation for the central zone which is the double height portion and we should not be getting in a lot of heat also into the house. Eastern side and western side we have given deeper deck so that it will cut down the heat and of course it will bring in light also. Of course the wind ventilation goes through this and we have a good cross ventilation for this space. When you get in this complete zone becomes like a private block. This is the kitchen block and this is the master bedroom block and even for bedroom there's another deck here by which people will be able to connect to this particular west landscape here and this becomes the transition zone which has the lift and the staircase which leads to other floors. So on first floor you can come through the staircase or through the lift. This portion forms master bedroom which is on south. Even this particular master bedroom from southwest also has connection towards the western courtyard. And there's one more master bedroom on northwest corner and this northwest master bedroom also has connection towards the northern courtyard which is here. So after this there's one small study and a library space which is here and this complete front portion is the terrace zone which is on the first floor and this central portion is the double height zone which also has a connecting corridor from this rear portion master bedrooms to the front portion master bedroom. So of course all the bedrooms are all it's all placed in one cornice so it has cross ventilation it has two set of windows on each walls. The second floor is accessed privately through a dedicated lift. The second floor is envisioned as an exclusive private realm for the client designed to host intimate gatherings and private celebration. The level offers a sense of seclusion while seamlessly connecting to the outdoor space. So the terrace garden is just an extended space from the entertainment space so when you have larger gatherings it can spread to the outdoor terrace garden. So the material palette we've gone with darker colors using acrylic and black. As our firm's vision it was always has to be a human-centric approach. We always wanted to connect people, nature and the programs so that's how we wanted to design the whole space. I can see the clients using more more outdoor spaces than the indoor spaces actually that's a good takeaway because we feel the intention of the project is achieved is what we personally feel.