{"id":360,"date":"2022-11-09T02:25:36","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T02:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4sitearchitects.com\/?p=360"},"modified":"2024-12-07T06:07:26","modified_gmt":"2024-12-07T06:07:26","slug":"treehuggerold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/4sitearchitects.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/09\/treehuggerold\/","title":{"rendered":"Treehugger house old version"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

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Typology:<\/strong>           Residence        <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Name of Project: <\/strong>Tree Hugger<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Location: <\/strong>Sarjapur road, Bengaluru<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Name of Client:<\/strong>      P.V. Varghese, Bengaluru<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Principal Architect:<\/strong> Chandrakant.S. Kanthigavi<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Design Team:<\/strong>    Rohit Baligidad, Madhusudhan, Veema Haridas, Bhagyashri, Nimisha Varghese, Anagha K<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Site Area (sq ft & sq m):<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Built-Up Area (sq ft & sq m):<\/strong>   3498 sq.ft<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Project Cost: <\/strong>       1.2 Crores( Rs. 3430 per sq.ft)  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Start Date: <\/strong>          <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Completion Date: <\/strong>        2015<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photography Credits:<\/strong> Gokul Rao Kadam, Ravi S Kanthigavi<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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A Single residence in a 40\u2019-0\u201d X 60\u2019-0\u201d plot evolved from a rigorous inquiry into the particulars of location and program. Our client, Mr. P.V.Varghese, is a valued partner, in our collaborative design process. As a response to his design brief, we came up with idea of \u201cTree hugger House\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs an architect, one needs to design a built environment, rather than just being a shelter.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the understanding of our clients background (from Kerala-God\u2019s own country), priorities, values and inspirations, likes and dislikes we got to know our challenges. First one was to create a contemporary residence with Values of Kerala architecture and interior spaces that would resonate with the client\u2019s personality.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

THE ESSENCE- SPECIAL FEATURES<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a dense urban context, we embraced nature with our built environment to focus on the dichotomy of interior and exteriors. The Palm tree that divides the parking and pedestrian path at lower level, acts as a visual treat from Master Bed and common balcony at first floor with its foliage flowing into the balcony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The choice of limited colors in the material palette, helps in drawing the focus towards the landscape and the wood used in the interiors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wood was used as the key element that added \u201ccolour and texture\u201d that brought in warmth and richness to the spatial organization. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Landscape is the focal element in this project that knits the entire built and un-built together and highlights the liveliness in the neighborhood. The dynamics within the home change with respect to the seasonal changes the landscape elements undergo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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CONCEPT:  TREE HUGGER<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our Client, is close to nature, and wanted his dream house with a close connection to nature as it reminded him of his home and childhood. So he asked us to \u201cdesign a House around a Tree.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Our challenge was to achieve the same ambience in an urban scenario. The large footprint of a traditional kerala home and its virtues had to be imbibed in a smaller urban footprint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The concept was conceived as an abstraction of the traditional \u201cNadumuttam (central courtyard) concept\u201d in most of the houses in Kerala, wherein the homes are composed around a focal landscape feature usually a Tulsi plant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a response to his design brief, we came up with idea of a \u2018house that embraces trees<\/strong>\u2019 we call it a \u2018\u2019Tree hugger, a contemporary urban residence with values of Kerala Architecture.\u2019\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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MATERIALS OF CONSTRUCTION: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Structure:  Framed RCC structure and Solid Concrete block walls as in-fill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fenestrations:  Wooden Doors and UPVC windows<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Interiors: FSC Certified Teak wood was used for doors and windows, wooden steps, wooden flooring and for little furniture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Typology:           Residence        Name of Project: Tree Hugger Location: Sarjapur road, Bengaluru Name of Client:      P.V. Varghese, Bengaluru Principal Architect: Chandrakant.S. Kanthigavi Design Team:    Rohit Baligidad, Madhusudhan, Veema Haridas, Bhagyashri, Nimisha Varghese, Anagha K Site Area (sq ft & sq m): Built-Up Area (sq ft & […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":396,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[43,52,24,45],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-residential","tag-indianarchitects","tag-architects-in-bengaluru","tag-helvetica","tag-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/4sitearchitects.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/4sitearchitects.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/4sitearchitects.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4sitearchitects.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4sitearchitects.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"https:\/\/4sitearchitects.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3097,"href":"https:\/\/4sitearchitects.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions\/3097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4sitearchitects.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/4sitearchitects.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4sitearchitects.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4sitearchitects.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}