House Of Multiple Courts
HOUSE OF MULTIPLE COURTS
Sameep Padora & Associates
ARCHITECTS
Sameep Padora & Associates
MANUFACTURERS
Accoya, Autodesk, Agc, Tata Steel, Robert Mcneel & Associates, Ultratech
MEP CONSULTANT
Meptek Consultants
DESIGN TEAM
Subham Pani, Nikita Khatwani, Aparna Dhareshwar
STRUCTURAL CONSULTANT
Rajeev Shah
AREA
500 m²
INTERIOR DESIGN & STYLING
Tarun Tahiliani Homes
PHOTOGRAPHS
Ahilia Homes
LOCATION
India
YEAR
2019
CATEGORY
House
Text description provided by the architects.
The House of Multiple Courts at Nachinola is located in a settlement within the midst of a serene littoral landscape adjacent to lush paddy fields.
The house is built with solid load bearing laterite stone blocks that form three sides of the house with a laterite and wooden colonnade on the fourth wall facing the north with views to the river.
The sold laterite stone block walls manifesting as simple opaque walls, porous screens and structural corbels depending upon the program they enclose.
The interior programs of the house pivot around a series of courts the first of which is an entrance designed through the water court designed around a restored existing well found on site.
The sequence of courtyard experience are scaled to respond to varying degrees of common & private programs.
An open to sky central courtyard ties the whole house leading to programs of the living room, dining space eventually to the pool overlooking the riverine landscape.
The bedrooms open into smaller, more intimate courtyards with their roofs modulated to cascade rainwater into these landscaped courts.
The architecture of the house at Nachinola is hence a device for framing the horizontal scale of the riverine landscape beyond and conversely captures a scaled version of the landscape within the house.
