Lateral Verandah House

Lateral Verandah House
© Bharath Ramamrutham

Lateral Verandah House

Malik Architecture

STRUCTURE ENGINEERS
Sturdcom/ Global Engineering Services

INTERIOR CONTRACTOR
Raju Bhai

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS
Studio Humane

LEAD ARCHITECTS
Kamal Malik, Arjun Malik, Meghana Tipnis, Netramohan Changmai, Sundeep Sarangi

GENERAL CONTRACTOR
Unique Concrete Technologies

INTERIOR CONTRACTOR
Rajesh Parmar, Manoj Suthaar

ROOFING
Epopsi Strumat

AREA
12883 Ft²

YEAR
2022

LOCATION
Pune, India

CATEGORY
Houses

Lateral Verandah House
© Edmund Sumner
Lateral Verandah House
© Edmund Sumner

The Lateral Verandah House is, in many ways, a natural extension of the House of Three Streams.

Lateral Verandah House
© Edmund Sumner
Lateral Verandah House
© Bharath Ramamrutham

They are located on the same site and were designed concurrently but built in separate phases.

This home is located further down the slope of this densely forested and steep land. The ravines intersected and informed the house.

Lateral Verandah House
© Bharath Ramamrutham
Lateral Verandah House
© Edmund Sumner

The House of Three Streams has, at this point, exited the site boundaries and the slopes here are slightly shallower.

The memory of ‘Place’ here is significant; Tung Fort sits in close proximity to the East; the topography of the land is particular; the forestation is dense and the climate is distinct, especially considering the eddying wind currents due to the large expanse of Pawna dam towards the North/East and the low lying hills to the South/South-West.

Lateral Verandah House
© Edmund Sumner
Lateral Verandah House
© Bharath Ramamrutham

The monsoon is violent but beautiful and rain rarely falls vertically due to the accompanying wind.

The house is organized over two primary levels, the upper one sheltering the communal spaces, and the lower one holding the sleeping and mechanical areas.

Lateral Verandah House
© Bharath Ramamrutham
Lateral Verandah House
© Bharath Ramamrutham

The roof follows the stepping plinth as it adapts to the gradual shift in levels.

It undulates, shifts, sidesteps, hovers, and allows the passage of the hill and of the existing trees as it provides shade and frames the near and distant views.

Lateral Verandah House
© Bharath Ramamrutham
Lateral Verandah House
© Bharath Ramamrutham

Its structural morphology of flitched rafters intertwining with the structural ‘Trees’ situates it in the landscape as a natural pause point in the journey down the hill.

Raw basalt walls anchor the proposal to the ground. The familiarity and historical application of this stone in every type of shelter, from the village home to the forts, turns these heavy elements into a built landscape.

Lateral Verandah House
© Bharath Ramamrutham
Lateral Verandah House
© Bharath Ramamrutham

The expected sense of witnessing a House is supplanted by something less recognizable yet familiar, something more ephemeral, yet it is visceral. Everywhere, there are allusions to the surroundings and to the past.

The cylinder that rises from the landscape as the House is approached speaks of the fort bastions.

Lateral Verandah House
© Bharath Ramamrutham
Lateral Verandah House
© Edmund Sumner
Lateral Verandah House
© Edmund Sumner

The organizational structure of the House precludes a discernible entry point or fixed boundaries, the ‘made’ and ‘found’ merge, and space and movement flow unhindered, much like an organism that has found its equilibrium in Nature; a special Homeostasis.


Lateral Verandah House
© Edmund Sumner
Lateral Verandah House
© Edmund Sumner
Lateral Verandah House
© Bharath Ramamrutham
Lateral Verandah House
© Bharath Ramamrutham
Lateral Verandah House
© Edmund Sumner
Lateral Verandah House
Lateral Verandah House
© Bharath Ramamrutham
Lateral Verandah House
© Bharath Ramamrutham
Lateral Verandah House
© Bharath Ramamrutham
Lateral Verandah House
© Bharath Ramamrutham


Lateral Verandah House
© Edmund Sumner
Lateral Verandah House
© Edmund Sumner
Lateral Verandah House
© Bharath Ramamrutham
Lateral Verandah House
© Bharath Ramamrutham
Lateral Verandah House
© Bharath Ramamrutham


Lateral Verandah House
Section AA
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Section BB
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Section CC
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Section DD


Lateral Verandah House
Plan - Lower Ground Floor
Lateral Verandah House
Plan - Upper Ground Floor
Lateral Verandah House
Plan - Roof
Lateral Verandah House
Exploded Axonometric


Lateral Verandah House
Sketch - Concept Roof
Lateral Verandah House
Sketch - Concept Planning


Lateral Verandah House
Sketch - Zoning
Lateral Verandah House
Plan - Site Location