The Complexities Of Simplicity

Built for a young couple with 2 children, the home emulates the traditional courtyard system of the client’s former town, Mangalore. While the brief entailed a contemporary home, the architecture firm Anahata consciously chose to imbibe characters of the courtyard system of living in the urban context.

- Shriti Das

The Padival House in Belgavi, Karnataka, is located on a rectangular site facing an 80 feet wide road. The onlooker on the road perceives the Padival House as a home with no windows. The notion that the structure is a “home” is perhaps solely attributed to the row-house layout of a grid-iron neighbourhood and the houses that adjunct it. The structure is composed of protruding pristine white masses that catch sun rays and cast shadows in its crevices. The shadows change profile and shift as the day proceeds endowing a fleeting character to the sculptural composition of the façade. This dense and compact demeanour is offset by a sheer boundary wall that almost dissolves into the statuesque form.