Inclined To Impress

Taking one material brick as a starting point, A+T Associates spin out a contemporary living environment that resonates with Indianness in Vadodara.

- Rupali SebaStian

Sited on a 4,750-square-foot plot located in a posh area of Vadodara, 45* Brick House portrays Indian contemporary aesthetics beautifully. And much of the Indianness can be attributed to exposed brick — the use of which was a one-point brief given by the client. Vadodara-based A+T Associates, which was charged with creating the architecture and designing the interiors, decided to interpret this requirement with a little twist — quite literally. “We wanted to change and experiment with the typical brick cladding technique and created a geometric pattern in bricks itself. All the bricks have been cladded at a 45-degree angle with a change in all directions,” state architects Tanvi Rajpurohit and Archis Patel, co-founders and principals of A+T Associates. “It was a big challenge… the toughest thing was to turn those angled bricks into other surfaces. Many trials and sampling had to be done to achieve the perfect turning.”