Ascending House

Ascending House

Rushi Shah Architects

Ascending House
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MANUFACTURERS
Khidki Ki Pathshala, Tipco Industries

LEAD ARCHITECTS
Rushi Shah, Vidisha Shah

INTERIOR DESIGNER
Jpa

STRUCTURAL ENGINEER
Mitesh Shah

DESIGN TEAM
Kashyap Mevada, Dhruv Trivedi, Kaivan Shah, Sandeep Sindhwani

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT
Vidisha Shah - Tattva Landscapes

PROGRAM / USE / BUILDING FUNCTION
Private Residence

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
Tattva Landscapes

PHOTOGRAPHS
Umang Shah

AREA
650 M²

LOCATION
Ahmedabad, India

YEAR
2022

CATEGORY
Houses

Ascending House
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The Ascending house is in Ahmedabad, completed in December 2022. The massing of the house is designed with step formation to cater to higher side requirements along with open spaces on each floor.

The bulk was broken into segments and was designed with a concept of Jenga blocks and was fragmented as per ascending floor plates.

Ascending House
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Ascending House
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Ascending House
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The design caters to cozy scale terraces to rooms, which emphasize the extruded cuboids.

In the brief, we were told that clients believe in the puja area to a great extent.

As the design outcome, the circular concrete mass was designed with a fixed glass slit on top.

Ascending House
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Ascending House
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Ascending House
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This space was formed as the dynamic element for the daytime with a height of 16ft.

The sunlight penetration through the slit cast a moon-shaped shadow pattern on the exposed RCC wall.

This shadow moves in the mass as the sun's angle changes. This drama justifies the circular mass.

Ascending House
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Ascending House
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Ascending House
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The house has multiple floor heights, ranging from 11 feet to 8 feet for the living room and passages.

A double-height space for the dining area opens in a Jaisalmer stone-cladded courtyard. The white gravel courtyard acts as a breakfast or evening coffee space.

The covered veranda is a conclave space of the house, designed on the same level as the landscape.

Ascending House
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Ascending House
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The landscape area intervenes under the wooden bottom canopy and creates a homogeneous space.

This space has an 11ft height which expands the cone of vision to observe the plantation. The veranda sprawls in the landscape with a backdrop of exposed rcc wall and a lotus pond.

Ascending House
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Ascending House
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The boulders, water, and plantations add up the nuances in the space. The house perceives multiple visual affairs from inside and outside both. Level differences, massing, and exposed RCC are the thriving elements of the house.


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Plan - Ground floor
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Plan - 1st floor
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Plan - 2nd floor
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Elevation


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