M+P Architects Collaborative helps the community in Bhimashankar with building a house.
This project has been a story of aspirations for us, for the clients, for the contractor, for the liasoning person, and for the entire team who made this happen. This plot was in a prime locality but was riddled with many riders related to setbacks, commercial use, road proposal, gunthewari etc. We discovered these after doing a few alterations of design. – M+P Architects Collaborative
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Ranjekar House, at Khanapur, Maharashtra, by M+P Architects Collaborative
Interior Design by M+P Architects Collaborative: The building abuts the highway opposite to the Ganpati temple. With a small 4m wide lane on the east side and just half a metre gap from the neighbouring building from on the west side, we thought of keeping the living quarters in the central portion of the house giving some open space on three sides with the service areas- toilets, utilities all planned along the western façade.
With such a brief, we kept divisions to a minimum and a third of the floor space as the common work area with two large work tables in MS supports and engineered wood sheets. One cabin is used by the directors or as a common meeting room with the smallest soundproof cubicle being the calling space. The balcony overlooking some trees is used as a lunch and break space.
Today, on the subject we open the discourse with Meghana Kulkarni and Pooja Chaphalkar, principle architects and co- founders of M+P Architects, Pune. Having started a collaborative endeavor in 2013, M+P Architects have collectively as well as independently procured and materialized several design projects in a course of less than five years since their genesis.
We were approached by a school consultancy who had taken charge of starting a kindergarten wing in an existing school. The brief was simple: Convert
The residence was designed keeping the local climate – which is hot and humid and the local village context in mind. The major construction materials- brick and stone were sourced locally . The structure is mostly load bearing with only 3 columns for the stilt area. Wood for the windows was seasoned used wood from old wadas and most of the doors and frames were recycled wooden ones from old demoished bungalows. –
The project is a 5000 sq. ft. bungalow near Kanha national park. Aim was to create a quirky colonial style bungalow using minimum RCC, providing
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