In March 2022, the Council of Architecture, India announced a two-stage competition for its Centre of Excellence, Bangalore. Anthill Design was one of the five teams that eventually made it to the final shortlist.
RAD CO+LAB designed the interior of this Mumbai-based office for clients desiring an open, flexible, and non-hierarchical office space- designed for the Covid and post-Covid work setting.
The success of the architecture lies in the fact that every corner you turn, the drama of the house and the view that it captures changes and moves along with you. The structure is an ode to the beauty of the mountains that surround it.
Designed by Rajeev Kathpalia, Partner at Vastu Shilpa Consultants, the proposed design echoes the vision of Nalanda University as the campus of the future, at the forefront of global education and the hub of intellectual excellence. The master plan adopts sustainable practices at every phase of the project and to achieve social and economic integration with the local community.
Designed by ED+ Architecture, the Gully Home is a residential project located on a street in Chennai, overlooking the ocean. The house is designed such that it opens and offers itself to the surroundings, while also swaddling in its layers of privacy.
Office 543 was designed by Charged Voids on a tight, 140-sqm plot in a busy commercial district in Mohali, Punjab. The narrow building, closed from two sides, has openings through two courtyards and multiple skylights, thereby maintaining optimum daylight and ventilation. An oval-shaped private meeting area emerges from the intersecting geometry of straight lines and an ellipse, resolving a complex design brief on the small footprint and creating a free-flowing spatial sequence.
House on a Farm is a vacation home designed by Architecture_Interspace in Tamil Nadu’s village, Kurumbagaram. The house’s design involves the use of materials evoking the simplicity of rural life. The design philosophy is a mix of rustic themes based on the idea of living with nature and contemporary finishes to enable comfortable work-from-home weekends.
The India Pavillion is one of the largest pavilions at the Dubai Expo 2020, at par with the country pavilions of USA and China. Amongst the three pavilions that are retained for posterity in Dubai’s legacy phase as an Indian centre, the pavilion’s outer façade is designed using kinetic architecture which celebrates India’s 75 years of Independence through storytelling while instilling emotions of pride and enthusiasm.
The house, designed for a single old lady and her tenants was devised as a free plan around a central courtyard. The levels & accesses were carefully divided between the lady and the tenants to allow comfort & privacy.
Designed for a family of six, the project constitutes of two interconnected duplex apartments. Daylight, ventilation, interconnectedness and privacy inform the design of this house by Studio Lotus in a dense part of the Panchsheel Enclave neighbourhood in Delhi..
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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