Lijo. Reny. Architects

The Colour Burst House

The Colour Burst House
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THE COLOUR BURST HOUSE

Lijo Reny Architects

LEAD ARCHITECTS
Reny Lijo, Lijo Jos

SUPERVISOR
Shameena P A

LANDSCAPE
Lijo Reny Architects, Green Planet, Thrissur

STRUCTURAL DESIGN
Thrissur, Vivek And Sasikumar Associates

MANUFACTURERS
Atomberg, Ace Lights, Bonasila, Crescent, Dulux, Jaquar, Kaaf, Lg, Legrand, Nexion, Pure Flames, Samson

INTERIOR DESIGN
Lijo Reny Architects

WALL ART
Sasi Bhaskaran

ELECTRICAL AND PLUMBING
Alikutty Noushad

PROJECT TEAM
Dhanayan Ks, Mohamed Shamel, Alfred Francis, Bibin Jacob, Dinesh D

CIVIL
Guruvayoor Builders, Haneefa V, Sajithan K G

FLOORING
Sk Flooring Group, Shamjith Kadirur

FURNITURE AND ARTEFACTS
Rubberband Products-ajay Shah Design Studio, Honest Structures, Spin

GLASS SUPPLIER AND INSTALLATION
P.j-crystal India, Lijo Jose

STEEL FABRICATION
Thrissur, Raju Antony-protech Enterprises

PAINTING
Bini Andathod

SOFT FURNISHING
Naina Lazar-verandah, Thrissur

PHOTOGRAPHS
Praveen Mohandas

AREA
502 M²

YEAR
2022

LOCATION
Chavakkad, India

TYPE
Houses

“We want to enjoy the rain, from every room of our house”, was the initial statement made by the clients in their project brief.

The Colour Burst House
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The Colour Burst House
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"The Color Burst House" was the result, and it included three enormous, double-height open-to-sky courtyards that all of the main rooms could open into, allowing the occupants to enjoy the rain, light, and breeze with the changing seasons from the comfort of their rooms.

The simple yet bold rectangular form of the building is softened at both ends by means of walls and frames extending into the landscape, the car porch with the terrace garden above it, and the transition of the tropical garden into a dry garden around the entry.

The Colour Burst House
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The Colour Burst House
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The entrance to the house is through a modest skylit landscape and the pavilion-like sit-out that is exposed to the landscape and serves as an outdoor living area. The experiment in blurring of indoor and outdoor, shaded and open, and built and unbuilt begins here in the project.

The house placed perpendicular to the road with the landscape surrounding it has three bays of horizontal development designed to make use of the site's length and the direction of the prevailing wind.

The Colour Burst House
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The Colour Burst House
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In the primary bay, the car porch, sit-out, living, powder room, kitchen, and work area are arranged in the indicated order.

The secondary bay has the bedrooms and their toilets flanking the staircase and a hidden courtyard to which all the bedrooms open.

With the dining room in the middle and an indoor patio above it that serves as the family room in this home, these two bays are joined by two large double-height courtyards in the central bay.

The Colour Burst House
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The Colour Burst House
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The Colour Burst House
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These courtyards in conjunction with the carefully placed monsoon windows in them and the horizontal strip ventilators opening to the exteriors in each room create a microclimate inside the house that helps keep the house cool during the hottest months.

The internal spaces seamlessly flow into one another, creating an openness even a wheelchair-bound young resident in this house enjoys.

The Colour Burst House
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The Colour Burst House
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Tropically lush vegetation covers the courtyard between the living area and the first bedroom, giving the private bay the required visual separation.

However, the courtyard that connects the kitchen, dining, study, and the second bedroom has less vegetation to encourage movement through it and is used as an alfresco dining or a space to unwind.

The Colour Burst House
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The Colour Burst House
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The moniker of this project refers to the burst of colors employed throughout the home. The house is filled with contagious energy by the orange, black, white, and grey hues that appear on the walls, furniture, wall art, metal fabrications, décor items, soft furnishings, etc.

Collaborations with some incredibly talented people make this project unique. Product designers Ajay Shah of ASDS and Kopal Kulkarni of Honest Structures designed and produced some new metal furniture and altered some of their earlier designs for the color burst house.

The Colour Burst House
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The Colour Burst House
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The metal sculptures designed by the architects were made by Raju Antony, a skilled fabricator, at Protech. Artist Sasi Bhaskaran of Brave New World worked on the client's favorite theme, ‘Rain.’

The end product is a collection of wall art that contain abstract fragments of text, poetry, and Malayalam folk songs inspired by rain.

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Plan - Ground Floor
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Plan - 1st Floor
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Plan - Terrace Floor


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