A Magical Story

Aaroh', which means "the one having high qualities of a Mountain" in Arabic, is home to a couple with two young sons and their grandmother.

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The client wanted the design team to craft their dream home with a modern and contemporary outlook, having a simple requirement of a Vaastu-friendly house with 6 bedrooms and landscaped areas to merge the indoors to the outdoors.

The concept revolved around designing and developing an inward-looking house that will have a world of indoor and outdoor areas cocooned within the periphery while having a variety of thresholds on the outer edge to create a buffer to the exterior areas.

The given plot is North-West facing; for separating private areas and the common areas, the plot was divided via a vertical axis at the centre and a courtyard at the Brahmasthan was placed. The courtyard houses a water body with a fall and also hosts a planter in the centre that has a tall tree reaching the upper edges of the house, acting as a visual bridge between both the floors. To create a buffer between the common areas and private areas, the central courtyard was then extended till the front edge of the built block on one side, and on the other side, the main staircase was placed. This gave birth to two distinct zones, a North-East zone having all the common areas and the South-West zone having all the private areas.