The house is designed to comfortably accommodate three families over 4 floors, 2 single level homes and a duplex, with careful consideration given to climatic conditions and comfort factors. Its form is generated as a response to the site, its orientation, the client requirements to build to the maximum permissible envelope of the site and the local building bye-laws.
Set along the backdrop of an existing water body and overlooking a football field, the project by Abin Design Studio, is a community club that maximizes its unique physical context. The project treads lightly in response to its picturesque context where the narrow strip of land is reclaimed to create a responsible waterfront development.
The client’s brief called for a garage structure with staff quarters, but for Abin Design Studio, Gallery House was a project with the potential to serve its local community. Inspired by the way the building was shaping, the client embraced the suggestion of providing a community hall and a multipurpose room, instead of the initial plan of having a garage built.
The brief was to create a home enclosing all the necessary elements for a young couple. The plot area was 408 sqft. Based on the area, the first priority was given to space efficiency at the micro level as much possible.
The overall experience of this net-zero art installation is to demonstrate a transcendental journey of freedom, agony and joy in childhood! Globally, children are going through a crisis brought on by being pushed to mould themselves into society’s preconceived notions of education and lifestyle.
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