HOUSE ON EDGE | 2015 | RESEDENTIAL, HOME STAY
HOUSE ON EDGE | 2015 | RESEDENTIAL, HOME STAY

Many farms many houses, this is what we see in todays scenario, but incase in early hamlets or villages people used to stay together while their farms used to be outside the villages. With time this scenario has changed and to reduce the clockwise distance and to control the activities in the farm people have started living around the farms. This has given an opportunity to explore an identity of a typology of a house perceiving the activities and the built form of the region. Now talking about a village/settlement/hamlet, it is an assembly of many dwelling units where openness is always explored to the extent and boundaries are decided not by designated bindings like walls, compounds etc. these spaces are always shared where one could leander through these spaces. This character itself gives a freedom for the user to enter in from anywhere; also t gives a different dimension for the uses of spaces because of which open spaces become spaces of primary importance. Now these are the learning’s form the villages/settlements. This house we considered as an opportunity to explore an identity of a house, which would be on the edge of a street and a farm where it will create a bond between street edge and the dynamic farmlands. So a building becomes an identity of a pivotal importance where it disseminates, one, from the activities of farming where it functions as a barrier between the farmland and the street, also at the same time this building becomes a participant with the dynamic of nature. The whole idea of this proposal to explore a typology where it will give freedom to openness to promote various use in space (kinetic space). This house appears like a definition between street and farm forming an edge between, where it holds character like a shell (fort wall) while from the farm side it appears more sort of a porous house. One can see in the plan that the fingers of this house more sort of penetrating towards the farm, while moving towards the street and the house shows a sense of security. The attitude of this house is such that the house shows its back to the street while it shows a face towards the activities happening in the farm. Hence it appears like a threshold to the farm. Footprint of this house is restricted around the street keeping maximum area available for farming where the house appears an elongated one along the street. Thus, it gives a definition like an edge to the house.


HOUSE ON EDGE | 2015 | RESEDENTIAL, HOME STAY