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HKS House

HKS House
© Shamanth Patil

HKS HOUSE

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ARCHITECTS
SDeG

INTERIOR CONTRACTOR
Krafts

ELECTRICAL CONSULTANT
PK Consultants

STRUCTURAL CONSULTANT
ISA Consultants

MANUFACTURERS
Grohe, Toto, Acor, Galuminium Windows

PHOTOGRAPHS
Shamanth Patil

BUDGET
USD 600,000

AREA
1364 m²

YEAR
2017

LOCATION
Visakhapatnam, India

CATEGORY
Houses

Text description provided by architect.

HKS house is located uphill in a quiet residential neighborhood in Visakhapatnam. The owners wanted a home with clearly delineated private spaces for the family, and a separate block to host guests and events.

The building is therefore conceived as two programmed volumes held together by a bridge-corridor, landscaped courts, and shaded terraces.

HKS House
© Shamanth Patil
HKS House
© Shamanth Patil

At the ground level, the owners can park, meet visitors at a home-office and organize shows at the gallery. Guests are either led up to an entry stairway to the verandah, or towards the north lawns for a celebration.

The northern volume also holds a formal living room, a covered deck for brunches and whirlpool bath-lounge, for the children and their guests. The eastern court and bridge together form the pivot of the home.

It is both open and enclosed, and offers varying degrees of interaction between the private and public areas of the building.

HKS House
© Shamanth Patil
HKS House
© Shamanth Patil
HKS House
© Shamanth Patil

The bridges (on first and second floor) are capped with a large coffered floor that forms a façade recess, causing a low pressure zone, forcing the north easterlies through the core of the house.

The second volume includes five large bedrooms along the southern edge, all reaching out to either capture views or winds from the Bay of Bengal.

On level one, the old and young meet in the family lounge and western deck.

HKS House
© Shamanth Patil
HKS House
© Shamanth Patil

This block also includes a double-height formal dining room, kitchens, utility spaces and staff accommodation.

HKS house has deep overhangs, thick edges and wrap around greens, intended to keep a large internal volume as cool as possible.

The exterior faces are rendered in smooth white and granular grey (cement plaster panels); mild textures to attenuate the effects of saline air and coal dust from the port nearby.

HKS House
© Shamanth Patil
HKS House
© Shamanth Patil
HKS House
© Shamanth Patil
HKS House
© Shamanth Patil


HKS House
Ground Floor Plan
HKS House
First Floor Plan
HKS House
Second Floor Plan
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Third Floor Plan


HKS House
Elevation and Section

HKS House
Exploded Axonometric


HKS House
Concept

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