THE HOUSE OF TRANQUIL ROOMS

Located in the rural village of Yavat, Maharashtra, India is The House of Tranquil Rooms' designed by CRAFT NARRATIVE for an agricultural family of two brothers.

- YATINDRA PATIL AND VIJAY KHARADE

"The traditional courtyard house builds upon the beauty of natural, emotional, and physical boundaries, but its essence is borrowed from the courtyard and its tree. The whitewashed exteriors reflect the simplicity of the client's needs he clearly wants a house that happily accommodates the family members, and the mango tree, while taking care of the utility as well as functionality.

Here, it is hard to define the precedence, who comes foremost the families, the tree, or the house; everyone is a crucial part of each other's existence." says the principal architects Yatindra Patil and Vijay Kharade.

The house overlooks the old mango tree, and as one goes around it, the house spatially defines and blurs lines between people and nature.Walk in the courtyard corridor paved with natural stone, and a sparrow of two might fly over your head-the inclusion and respect for nature can be felt evidently.