Description - Residential
Status – On Going
Area – 3500 sqft
Scope – Architecture + Interior
Location – Kasargod, Kerala
A testimony of classical Indian architecture, ‘Jharokha’ or projecting windows have been a customary feature of ancient India. Creating it a muse, the Jharokha House is designed for the parents of a NRI couple, a place for them to call home in India. Responding to the old mosque in vicinity, the house emanates as a modern take on local architecture to blend with its surrounding context.
Envisaged on a 4000 sq.ft. rectangular plot, the house is enclosed by structures on three sides and an active street on the front for access. The notion was to devise an abode that feels safe for parents with the spaces weaving into one another. Stringent setback conditions and specification of four bedrooms, necessitated the introduction of a courtyard to render light and a central multifunctional space. The house thus consists of two rectangular volumes with inverse side sloping roof adjoined by a shorter block, to yield a contemporary outlook to a traditional sloping roof house.