The Maze Home / MISA ARCHITECTS
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Textual content description supplied by the architects. If we have been to speak a few fascinating, communal dwelling house – one that’s ingrained and thus, an integral a part of our tradition and rising up; the place can we begin? Maybe, we begin with the tales that we now have heard, the photographs and the ideas we now have from then – ideas that constructed over time into inseparable, interconnected and congruous narratives and lots of extra tales. This lifestyle stimulated our senses and we skilled and explored expression – which resonated past simply the visible sight or aesthetics. It appealed to us at many ranges.
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What if we have been to manifest this expression by a constructed kind? What would such an area entail? How can structure instil a perpetual sense of celebration, utsav? How can we facilitate concord between the constructed atmosphere and its inhabitants? How can the constructed kind exploit gentle and wind and nonetheless decrease the harshness of climate. How can we recreate the identical communal feeling? The reply lies the place the query originates – the Indian traditions and vernacular varieties.
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Structure, for us, isn’t just an meeting of useful constructed varieties – it’s a dwelling, a dwelling that homes feelings and is constructed with gentleness and some extent of ingenuity. And that’s additionally true for the consumer. After we begin with the fundamentals – we merely ask the consumer and ourselves – why, what’s the function behind constructing this home? And the reply to this query results in tales, narratives, experiences, ideas and imagery – from the place it began. This narrative is the journey of our design evolution.
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This home, because the title alludes, is created like a maze and borrows its core design philosophy from Wada – a standard residential kind from Maratha structure. The constructed and unbuilt blocks of this home heighten curiosity and engagement. The home seems from a considerably hidden and inconspicuous entry; the steps to the dwelling if missed will deliver you again to the place you began! As you progress about, the home provides a blended feeling. It comes throughout as an enormous haveli with quite a few courtyards, spacious rooms and a plethora of gathering areas, balconies and sit-outs. It additionally comes throughout as a heat, open, inviting and discerning dwelling dotted with a narrative, a story, an emotion at each flip and in each nook. The house speaks for the customers – a multi-generational household in coherence with the environment.
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The intricate brickwork employs new bonds and interlocking geometries decreasing the development prices. The higher flooring enjoys uninterrupted expanses and humungous rooms, due to the concrete vaults that drastically diminished vertical parts throughout the ground. The vaults add to the aesthetic and quantity dramatically and convey within the north gentle by the day. We’ve got stored the playfulness quotient excessive with maze-like placement of rooms utilizing stage variations, related organically by courtyards and verandas which kind a pure circulate between the within and the surface. These open areas breathe life into the home and lend a novel sense of house and even time with the altering gentle and sounds of birds and guests as they cross by; after which the home progressively blurs the boundaries between private and non-private as we transfer up the flooring. Your first go to right here will begin with an unapologetic abundance of shock and piqued curiosity, and can finish rewardingly with a satiated ‘pleasure of discovery’.
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At a extra metaphorical stage, this home is a celebration and an interpretation of the “Indian” lifestyle. As structure college students, one of many first workout routines we did was to maneuver round and try to comprehend the lifestyle; the seen and invisible interactions between individuals and the constructed varieties and the edge between the pure and the constructed atmosphere. And that is what we now have explored right here. A home that responds to instinct, senses, reminiscences, wandering and the inherent human quest to seek out solutions.
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