Kindred House / Anagram Architects

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Architects: Anagram Architects
Location: India
Design Team: Ayush Prakash, Mugdha Upasani, Late S. Sai Satish
Photographs: Courtesy of Anagram Architects

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Kindred House was recognised as a chateau for dual brothers and their families. Unlike a normal Indian corner family that customarily camber 3 or some-more generations and tend to have despotic dutiful hierarchies, a clients, in this project, are consanguine chief families. Therefore, a settlement called for mixed amicable spaces of overlapping territori alities and use along with specific zones for any family section and member. It sought to residence an sourroundings where a teenaged cousins were together fostered by a 4 parents.

Taking a evidence from a reciprocity between a dual families, a settlement sought to emanate inner and outmost residential spaces for a families by elaborating tighten and nuanced volumetric relations between built masses. Three materially diverse, cuboidal volumes are upheld on an interlaced, cantilevering constructional complement in front of a incomparable monolithic retard . Through this, roughly “jenga-lke”, arrangement a volumes seem to boyant between a arbour on a roof and a pool of H2O during a entrance, hold in place by common spatial relationships.

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The voids , so created, concede landscaped , outmost spaces to dig deeply into a vital spaces flooding them with light and uninformed atmosphere while permitting opening to garden spaces on a belligerent as good as on terraces. Materially, a settlement seeks to raise a “conversation” between opposite materials and built volumes by pattern, texturing and layering. In terms of massing, a “floating” blocks swell from a framed “hollow” brick of a opening porch to a seperated pondering spaces to a monolithic guestroom block.

The tiling settlement of a wood-clad guestroom retard is evinced as minimal fenestrations in a stream mill gabion of a pondering spaces and is carried serve onto covering of mill slabs that act as a brise soleil for a monolithic retard during a rear. This site, one among a quarrel of plotted houses, faces south and therefore is unprotected to high thermal gain. Thermal stacking in a voids between a blocks draws a peaceful zephyr into a landscaped areas on opposite floors.

These spaces, easily shadowy by a cantilevers, are really pleasing and permitted outdoor during a prohibited and wet months. They upsurge serve onto object terraces unprotected to a comfortable winter sun. The bedrooms for a families are built in a monolithic retard during a back with vast windows to a north, their thermal benefit serve mitigated by plcae a bathrooms and dressers along a southern face. The endless patio gardens also assistance isolate opposite a summer feverishness benefit and winter feverishness loss.