Of Dynamic Connections

The House at Kensville Golf & Country Club and Community in Ahmedabad lays out a horizontal homage to its surroundings. Its structure blurs boundaries of inside and outside through a system of stairwells and ramps.

- Shruti Nambiar

‘Linear’, ‘earthy’ and ‘full of surprises’- it is difficult to find better terms to define the House at Kensville Golf & Country Club and Community. The entire structure is an amalgamation of seemingly free-standing sub-structures that subvert the need for defined closed and open spaces within a house. Encompassing the contradictions of form and style here is a charming structure that the team from Ahmedabad-based Arya Architects realised using a system of light and heavy, and stout and slender elements.

“The house emerges from the ground and extends out towards the landscape. Cocooned and sunk into the site at the lower level, it rises up making a vertical connection with the sky. The roof seems suspended above and reaches out towards the golf course making a horizontal extension.

It is thus, a pavilion in a courtyard. The textures and the materials reflect this key relationship,” states Meghal Arya, one of the principals at Arya Architects.