Sen Kapadia Architect Bhavsar House Ahmedabad, Gujarat

The role of the architect as an artist and designer is very firmly yet weightlessly articulated in the almost sculptural design of a house.

- Kaiwan Mehta

Tucked away in a residential suburb of a busy Indian city, this house was built for an artist-couple who lived in New York and at times, visited India. The house is a composition of sculptural volumes that can also be imagined as a gallery space. The design of the structure takes the geometry of a traditional four-walled house that sits in a suburban plot of residential volumes one after another, and minimally disturbs the sedated by convention, and pedantic notion of a suburban upper-middle-class home. The play with walls and roofs, proposed by Sen Kapadia as planes free of convention, as tectonic articulations that allow the designer to sculpt usa