Primitive Future – GUMPHA House

Primitive Future – GUMPHA House
© Vikrant Dashputre

PRIMITIVE FUTURE - GUMPHA HOUSE

Within N Without

ARCHITECTS
Within N Without

AREA
1200 ft²

LOCATION
Nashik, India

CATEGORY
Houses, Small Scale

YEAR
2016

MANUFACTURERS
Saint-Gobain, Jaguar, Star ferro

COLLABORATORS
Ninad Bothara, Kinjal Sakaria

LEAD ARCHITECT
Shailesh Devi

As the urban dweller tired from the stresses of everyday life, seeking rejuvenation, turns towards nature, his quest is to seek inner joy, unbound his energies to become one with the forces of nature.

Primitive Future – GUMPHA House
© Vikrant Dashputre
Primitive Future – GUMPHA House
© Vikrant Dashputre

The chaos of city life drives a man to pursue the tranquility and search for the inner peace, which so alludes him in his mundane life.

The Charm of city life and the appeal of nature is the chasm a man seeks to bridge and in that keeps searching for a meaningful existence.

Primitive Future – GUMPHA House
© Vikrant Dashputre
Primitive Future – GUMPHA House
© Vikrant Dashputre

It is this search which brings us to gumpha and its environs. Gumpha bridges the chasm between the darkness in the depths of lands and the light which comes calling from the heavens; celebrating the communion of the two.

The user is drawn into this play of light and darkness; discovering his part in the drama as he becomes part of the bigger script, making a journey, discovering the meaning of the larger picture, each having his own definition.

Primitive Future – GUMPHA House
© Vikrant Dashputre
Primitive Future – GUMPHA House
© Vikrant Dashputre

But more than all that gumpha is A response... to the adventurous nature of explore. An expression... of the innate nature of land and hills to surprise. A journey... to lose the identity and discover self. A poetry... by the earth itself. A dialogue... between man and nature.

Gumpha is a search of the designer looking for a language to answer nature’s callings. It is a narration of the most organic response of the architect to the immediate environment.

Primitive Future – GUMPHA House
© Vikrant Dashputre
Primitive Future – GUMPHA House
© Vikrant Dashputre

As you move along the path the land opens up to you, taking you along its winding ways slowly revealing the surrounding, drawing you into an atmosphere.

You are introduced to gumpha when you least expect it and it comes to meet you, inviting you to delve into it, seek its spaces, travel its depths.

Primitive Future – GUMPHA House
© Vikrant Dashputre
Primitive Future – GUMPHA House
© Vikrant Dashputre

It wants you to discover, to explore, to find something new each time you walk along.

The form it takes is mostly organic, where the earth itself seems to breathe in tandem with light to create what can be called as an almost living and sensuous organism, arousing the curiosity with its silent light and playful inquisitive spaces.

Primitive Future – GUMPHA House
© Vikrant Dashputre
Primitive Future – GUMPHA House
© Vikrant Dashputre

It almost humors you by appealing the child in you in playing with itself, making you wonder, drawing you in the insides, taking you along on the roof.

At the same time, it helps you search for your inner self as the deep spaces lit by heavenly light offer you tranquility and peace to meditate. where in the interior are introvert and contemplative,

the exteriors offer you vistas of the surroundings, engaging both joyous and peaceful essence of man, initiating an intense experience, in turn making you richer by the time you leave for the city.

Primitive Future – GUMPHA House
© Vikrant Dashputre


Primitive Future – GUMPHA House
Site Plan and Sectional Elevation
Primitive Future – GUMPHA House
Ground Floor Plan


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Sections
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Elevation


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Site Plan and Model
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Schemes


Primitive Future – GUMPHA House
Poetry