Set on the foothills of Maharashtra in Alibaug, far away from the busy city life of Mumbai. The plot was a dry barren piece of parched earth. When I first saw it, there were two lonely trees; a view of the hills in the distance and dry fields all the way to the sky, all around.
The idea of the house began here.
The house is designed like a sieve through which light is filtered, dappled and draped into its hollows.The architecture is crafted as art, where conventional modes of building thought are deviated to deride the predictable strict geometries that are attached to impressive architecture. The entire flooring, in contrast to orthogonal patterned alignments to the building, is worked upon like a feely painted canvas with various pigmented handmade concrete tiles.Light from the skylights slash the walls, painted in shades of brown.
The living experience is designed to be gentle; dark, quiet and erotic, with its hierarchy of volumes and spatial textures. Steel, concrete and wood are choreographed to manufacture shadows and intrigue.
In the mood for love; the shadow house.
Location: SahanGaon, Alibaug, Maharashtra
Typology: Residential
Area: 5000 sq.ft
