Jubilee Terraces Residence / Spacefiction Studio
Context: Jubilee Hills is a hilly, up-market residential neighborhood in Hyderabad, India. It’s stuffed with massive, opulent residences, most of that are extra vainness tasks of its influential inhabitants than local weather or context-sensitive buildings. As such, each constructing, in an try to seem distinct and extra placing in its quick environment, made this neighborhood an amalgamation of a misfit mixture of architectural types from each when and the place. Character, if any, comes from the undulating hilly roads, the rocky terrain, and the constant presence of enormous timber, particularly the Yellow flame timber (Peltophorum pterocarpum), in comparison with the opposite neighborhoods of Hyderabad.
The location is 160 ft lengthy with shorter sides of 60 ft going through north and south. The shorter sides have highway entry and a slope down 30 ft from south to north. On the north and south, simply outdoors the location, are gigantic Yellow flame timber towering over 4 tales.
Home of cascading terraces: A big lobby with an overhanging backyard punctured with skylights welcomes one into the decrease two ranges of the home by way of a colossal door. These ranges accommodate all of the leisure areas centered round a big double-height quantity that homes the pool. The higher 5 ranges stagger again to create north terraces echoing the undulating paddy fields of India. These terraces are shaded all year long by the ground previous it, stuffed with a panorama that cascades onto the following decrease terraces. The towering yellow flame timber alongside the northern and southern sides act as a pure visible barrier from the quick environment, and their dramatic seasonal bloom provides a lush yellow foliage to the environmental palette.
Inside, within the coronary heart of the home, is a big central quantity with two connecting double-height areas. A big, clean, marble-cladding wall runs by way of everything of this quantity, over which gentle washes by way of the skylights strategically positioned above the indoor plantation areas. A sculptural staircase bends sinuously within the chiaroscuro, whose shape-shifts with the skylights overhead, fanning out to the first-floor front room. There are three bedrooms, two on the primary flooring and a 3rd on the second, all peeking into the central quantity by way of introspective home windows. Usurping the third flooring, a master suite finds itself graciously complemented by an connected research and a personal verandah. The apex includes a get together room for al fresco entertaining conferred upon the household’s interior circle of pals and guests.
Materiality: Inert white marble types nearly all of the palette, with a couple of highlights of beige lime plaster and brass. Mild turns into a constructing materials, percolating by way of numerous skylights in massive volumes. Biophilic landscapes within the interiors and the outside juxtapose over the contrasting marble interiors to create a way of timelessness. A multiplicity of visible and sensory experiences is given priority over fleeting luxurious tendencies.
