A joint family house design in Delhi, Villa KD45 by Studio Symbiosis - Parametric Architecture

Studio Symbiosis designed villa KD45 for a associated household successful Delhi NCR, Ghaziabad, India.

The client’s plan little was to make a villa with maximum greenish abstraction and parkland views. The basement’s location theatre, bar, and gym are connected by a beauteous outdoor staircase and a patio to bring successful light.

The tract of villa KD45 is surrounded by villas connected 3 sides, offering views of the vicinity parkland connected the shortest 4th side. There are 3 salient trees connected the site, 1 astatine the entranceway and 2 flanking connected the rear broadside of the plot. The plan little from the lawsuit was to effort and clasp these trees arsenic overmuch arsenic possible.

Being a associated family, the lawsuit wanted dual enactment successful the house. Firstly, privateness zones were required for his parents, his brother’s family, and his family, and secondly, a fewer spaces wherever each members surviving successful the location could beryllium together.

Design Solution – Urban surviving successful the thigh of nature

In the municipality mounting of villa KD45, determination is simply a increasing disconnect betwixt the idiosyncratic and nature. This task aims to make greenish municipality surviving to rekindle the residents’ narration with quality successful their contiguous surroundings. This villa emerges from the landscape, with the cardinal taxable of creating maximum greenish screen on-site and utilizing the views of the parkland facing the site.

The unusual signifier of the plot, on with the views of the vicinity park, were utilized arsenic plan drivers. Thematically the plan looks astatine flowing the greenish of the vicinity parkland successful the site, with streamlines emerging from the parkland facing the confederate broadside and opening up towards the bluish borderline of the area. This basal grid has been utilized to specify the built-form and scenery zones specified arsenic h2o bodies, hardscape, and brushed scape.

The built signifier is strategically placed connected 1 borderline of the site, resulting successful a generous landscaped plot connected the westbound broadside of the plot, which opens up to the double-height household surviving & dining, thereby extending arsenic an outdoor surviving room. The built signifier emerges from the scenery and blends the crushed level to the extortion of the building, creating an outdoor connective spine for the villa. This meandering stepped walkway has an outdoor abstraction connected the archetypal level with outdoor shaded seating and connects further to the terrace. This outdoor terrace abstraction connected the archetypal level acts arsenic a balcony and is the nonstop entranceway to the first-floor apartment.

The plot of villa KD45 connected the terrace enjoys the views of the vicinity parkland with a feeling of being nested with nature. These 3 outdoor spaces person antithetic usability based connected the clip of time and play of the year.

Existing trees connected tract person been retained successful the design, and the shading from these trees has been utilized to make ambient outdoor spaces, which could beryllium utilized successful the utmost climatic conditions of Delhi NCR.

The plan intended to make a dichotomy successful the façade, with the little façade being airy successful quality and a dense measurement floating connected apical of it. The crushed level has a solid façade to link with outdoor greenish spaces, and the archetypal level has punched windows carved retired of factual to minimize vigor summation arsenic this façade is straight exposed to the sun.

A double-height living, dining, and unfastened room abstraction combines the 2 household floors into 1 portion of household surviving and thereby strengthening household connectivity.

Sustainable plan strategies person been implemented to make ambient indoor and outdoor spaces. The crushed level has a heavy cantilever connected the southwest and an east-facing façade connected the crushed level to chopped the harsh summertime sun. Water bodies are provided connected the crushed level and terrace to beforehand evaporative cooling. The extortion of the gathering is simply a landscaped terrace with world and grass; this further helps chopped down the villa’s nonstop vigor gain.

Sustainability

Given the blistery climatic conditions of Delhi-NCR, this task has been designed for quality comfortableness some indoors and outdoors. The shallow h2o assemblage connected the crushed level has been placed successful the way of the upwind direction, helping successful evaporative cooling. The main southwest-facing facade connected the crushed is recessed to artifact the nonstop sunlight during the time portion maintaining a seamless ocular transportation to the outside. In the aboriginal evening, immoderate rays of sunlight animate the interior. The precocious level of the gathering is made of factual with windows recessed backmost to chopped the southbound sun.

The 3 existing trees connected tract person been retained, creating zones of shadiness successful the scenery and besides helping successful reducing the prima vulnerability of the villa. The greenish screen connected the terrace and the meandering steps trim nonstop vigor gain. Wind absorption was taken into relationship for cross-ventilation successful the house.

Project Info

Site Area L Built-Up Area: 1081 Sqm | 1100 Sqm
Status: Completed
Design: Amit Gupta, Britta Knobel Gupta
Project Lead: Kartik Misra, Nitish Talmale
Project Architect: Govinda Dey. Team: Krishan Sharma, Anjan Mondal, Arun Marigoudra, Ankit Verma, Sakshi Raghav, Samiksha Verma, Vishakha Sharma, Dhriti Sharma
Photographs & Video: Niveditaa Gupta
Consultants Structure: Acecon, Mep: Dbhms, Lighting: Luminars