Stylish dimensions
The Hindu
How to create vast spaces, cosy interiors, and green expanses. By Nandhini Sundar
The dimensions were certainly challenging, leave alone being unique. When Smaran Mallesh and his team at Cadence Architects were shown a site measuring 68 x 19 x 107 x 73 x 4 ft. in south Bengaluru and asked to build a four-bedroom residence that was to spread over 7,800 sq. ft, they realised that the design intervention would need to be unique. Not only were the site dimensions peculiar, its location too was equally so, situated in the corner of a busy junction amidst a dense urban neighbourhood.
With vehicular roads flanking two of its three sides, the design team faced the challenge of coming up with a structure that shielded the interiors from the external chaos yet retained the external connect without losing the tranquillity of a segregated dwelling. Given the large interior space request, it meant that the building’s footprint would encompass the entire site; and a steep vertical expanse of the structure was inevitable.
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