Ananta, Weekend Home, Bhugaon

Categories	Timeline	Status	Location	Typology	Area	Client	Team
Architecture + Interior	2016	Completed	Bhugaon, Pune	Private Residences	2500 Sqft	Self	Rakesh, Rupali, Tanaya

Context
Process
Concept
Result

A modest ode to the aesthetics of nature.

Set on a mountain overlooking the city, the house was designed to minimize the impact of its footprint on the landscape. The architect‘s weekend home is designed around his childhood memories. The design is a subtle idea of timeless architecture and self maintained house having no dependance.

“The house is an accumulation of experiences, the open concept and its sleek bold lines which gives architecture a modern feel. The open plan is an exercise in fluidity and weightlessness”
-Ar. Ravi Kadam

Process

The house is a series of courtyards showing simplicity, openness and balance between lines that gives a sense of enclosure for various spaces.

Concept

1. Car park within an island of trees
2. Store room
2A. Kitchen Utility court
2B. Organic Kitchen Garden
3. Boulder court
4. Desk
5. Outdoor Kitchen
6. Private Court
7. Master Bedroom Forest

Result

Rainwater harvesting systems are integrated in the floating roofs, stored in underground tanks and used for landscaping and basic home utilities.

The living spaces are extroverted and permeable allowing nature to penetrate its envelope; the private spaces are protected.

The house is discovered through a series of public and private courtyards formed by the bold stone walls to provide opportunities for pause and a chance to extend to the surrounding landscape and scale rendering a sense of warmth.

Thick basalt stone walls and wooden textures sets the building into the landscape, with walls and floors are of pigmented cement plaster creating simple interiors.

The incliened floating roofs extends the views from inside to the outside, increasing the volume of the space.

Intricate
details add
to the
essence of
the place.

"A great vision is needed and the man who has it must follow it as the eagle seeks the deepest blue of the sky"

Geothermal cooling system

The house is naturally ventilated with a designed geo-thermal cooling system that keeps comfortable internal temperature using an underground piping system, to exchange heat from the outdoor heat pump located outside the house.