A Modern House in Raipur with Traditional Sloping Roof (Home Tour)

One needs to, as a designer, one really has to understand that growth of the house, need of the house in future. So when it comes, majority of people are concerned about their own privacy. But at the back of the things is actually subordinating within family. Now while making this house, we have lots of interaction all the time with the client. And somehow we find that the client was always telling about the luxurious home. But always back of the mind, he said, we love your landscaping, we want to live in forest. And we see this as a big opportunity. And we really wanted to push that living in outdoor spaces. We thought it would be a great idea to create a house of verandahs. Hi, I'm architect Hiren Patel from HPAD Ahmedabad. For detailed chapters and the PDF ebook, please visit buildofide website. So this house is basically in Chhattisgarh state in Raipur city. It's a gated community of maybe 300 to 500 homes. The plot is almost about 8000 square yards, about two acres of land. And the house must be more than 25,000 square feet. And the top part is the north and we have the road access on the west side. And also we have south side of the road. We have designed the house which is moving more towards southern side of the plot. So you have the more northern side of the garden open. You have the thing you enter from the west and then you have the parking zone over here. Then you dry over here and then come to the canopy of the porch. The main house will definitely has a little focus on vastu need as well. And you come from the less northern side of the house, where you have a sense of arrival porch. That's the basic formation. Now how you make this volume to be very nice and different verandahs We started adding a kind of a verandah with a little roof to that to reduce the volume of the masses with a beautiful kind of mushroom kind of column which becomes an identity for the house. And there is a firm office, some basic space. And then we have the northeast of family space, a beautiful courtyard in between and the formal living space. We have the kitchen part coming on the southeast corner, dining part. The puja is right on the east side. Northwest side is the parents room which is in front of the house because old people like to see people more rather than having their own privacy. Where the southwest side goes to the master bedroom, areas with the guest bedroom and staircase coming up kind of thing. So very simple square rectangle formation. We come up from the staircase to the space in the center of the house. And then also the kids room in future. So house is taken care for next 10 to 15 years very easily. Then we have a nice library because library will become very important part when the family is going to grow. This part become a double height to overlook so there is a relation between upper and lower ground. And at the same time we also have the entrance part which is double height so you have the eye on that. The house is with the two young boy and they have lots of socializing happening. Exactly opposite to the house at the northeast corner, we brought a nice facility for their spa, massage, everything with the private open to sky pool. But that pool has been covered with another structure in the front which is like a gym and home theater and party lounge kind of thing. And to connect this both house we have another outdoor living space over here. So suddenly this formation was agreed upon but we realized that we actually need a lot more spaces which should be more outdoor spaces, semi-covered spaces so we started marking them out. So their semi-covered spaces are suddenly started stepping up in the house as additional features for the home. So everywhere there is a space where you feel like sitting outside. And then obviously it should be near the garden so we started forming courtyard garden and we suddenly realized that okay now we have to create like more like a forest. So instead of the just a plain lawn we just started building a trees forest within. So you don't see the flat lawn but you start seeing more of a forest kind of living. On the southwest side we completely created which is more of a fruit orchard where they can come out and sit. It's very simple connecting paths all around the house all three spaces which we have and I think it's working very beautiful because they use for morning walk and kind of thing. It's like a combination so it's a they have their own spaces but at the same time they have bonding among the things. So suddenly house is now getting covered with lots of thick trees and I'm still saying that another three years four years house is completely going to be hide away into the this forested trees and thick plantation and it will have its own ecosystem. House is meant for enjoying the garden we have every room has a big large windows with the extra overhang so it is taken care of and where there is a direct sun coming from the west and south we have planted trees heavily so eventually it will give the shade to the house. In our material we have natural marble for the entire house including the bedrooms and living spaces we have variation of the marble. Let's say when the we as a designers or we as a designers are exhausted they get the new energy to the client and then they travel they go to the art galleries they go to the fair art fair and they buy a meaningful decor which showcase a lifestyle of the client rather than just filling up to make it look beautiful. So now in our houses there is a lots of warmth a lot of personal touch because a lot more work has been done in styling with consulting and lots of debate and discussion with the client that is not just a one drug has come or one painting has come there is a lot more thoughts behind that. To this house our takeaway would observing a light for this house obviously everybody at this society level with their way of living wants air-conditioned complete house we have 100% let's say we have entire roof covered with the solar panels still you need a your use of air conditioning is much more right. So what we realized how we switch over the lifestyle and that's where we thought let's plant more let's plant more let's have more more verandas and eventually we just start realizing that oh I enjoy rather more sitting in the morning and evening in veranda than my air-conditioned room watching Netflix. So that's the thought process for this house I think that's the takeaway for this we have cracked it well because we start getting now more picture of the client side to on our whatsapp about okay this fruit has come this tree looks like this these birds are now here in making nesting at our place. So suddenly we realize now no more talking about the luxury of which they already have they loved it about less Italian marble expensive carpet but now no more pictures come from that they have also become the lover of the nature and that's a success for us.