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AADYAM
BENGALURU, KARNATAKA

Plot Area: 2,400 sq ft

Built-up Area: 3,650 sq ft
Project Timeline: 2015 - 2018
Project Cost: INR 3,000 - 3,500 sq ft

GAURAV ROY CHOUDHURY ARCHITECTS, BENGALURU

Principal Architect: Gaurav Roy Choudhury
Project Team: Arnaud Malthieu, Sushil Kumar, Sachin Gujjar, Abhishek Pawar,
Satyanarayan, Stefan Fernandes

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This home in the central neighborhood of Bengaluru, landed with

the architect with some construction elements like the plinth and
ground floor columns already in place. The site sits on a tight plot
of 2,400 sq ft with a vicinity that was gradually redeveloping up
in form of high rise apartments.The client - a young couple with
elderly parents wanted their house to be a blend and balance of
two things: a dynamic, energetic and hybrid space to suit their
lifestyles, whilst remaining comfortable, familiar and traditional
for the parents. This was to be achieved with the strict adherence
to the vaastu norms.
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House protected by a tree foliage

The G+1 structure has a block grid façade that overlooks the tree foliage spread on the
street. The technique of levels is used in the construction to bring the light into all the
spaces of the house. The levels were also used to unify and, in the same breath, divide
the house.
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View of pooja, living and dining

Considering the site context of this house which would soon face difficulty for fetching
the light and ventilation due to the future high rises, the architect wanted to achieve a
structure self-sufficient to harness these needs. The structure had higher advantage of
receiving the natural light from the top, rather than from the sides. The spatial planning
and orientation of spaces allows ease of movement for the users. The entry is positioned
in the center where one comes in touch with a temple that creates a nook with the
garden beside it.
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Dining

The ground floor is planned with traditional aesthetics and the comforts needed by the
parents. The living and the bedroom open onto a narrow front garden. The bedroom
occupies the south west direction of the plot. The dining subtly connects with the
living and receives natural light from the landscaped space placed in the north east.
The kitchen has been placed in the south-east corner, and it opens into the dining. It is
serviced by a utility towards the center of the house. The utility area, the powder room,
the help’s room and the parents’ bathroom are bundled into a low height block above
which sits the mezzanine and the elevated garden.
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Bedroom 1

Functioning as the heart of the house, this garden space is open to sky, and thus fills
the spaces with natural light and air. From the mezzanine and the passage, one gets
the views of ground and first floor levels. A gallery runs alongside the garden with fully
collapsible high glass doors. The staircases is placed in the center and connects all the
spaces together. Designed in steel spaceframes, it borrows the design language from
the internal geometry, widths and the heights of the house. It syncs with the design
aesthetics of the ground floor that has a traditional voice, and first level which is more
contemporary.
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Staircase to the first level

The space frame hangs from upper levels with two sets of geometries: the large box
sections which set the larger parametric rhythm of the house, and the smaller box
sections which meander and run the fluid notes of movement, scale and local function
like steps, shelves, benches, tables, etc.
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Den and family space on first level

Adhering to the client’s need to having modern space to suit their lifestyle, the first floor
is designed in a ‘C’ shape around the mezzanine and the elevated garden. It houses a
bedroom on either side with a large hybrid space in the middle. This hybrid space lines
up with the elevated garden in length, and has a sloping roof expanding its volume and
the light filtering into it. This hybrid space can be used for multipurpose activities like a
library, a lounge area, den or an A.V. Room.
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Elevated garden on first level

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A master bedroom is placed towards the front west side and turns into a suite with a
cut-out separating the bathroom and sleeping areas. A tree from the front garden in the
ground floor grows through this cut-out, simulating an internal courtyard. The guest
bedroom is placed in the south-east corner, and opens into the elevated garden with a
bay window, similar to the master bedroom. Green planters on the north-east corner of
the first floor works as a shield from the neighboring houses.

Light coming in from the skylight above staircase

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This area is used as a gym and a sit-out. The roof houses the study, a calm secluded
space overlooking the elevated garden through large windows, from above. The internal
spaces share a beautiful connection with the exteriors. Layers are moved in and out
as the house expands and contracts, opens up and closes, as plants move from spaces
within, in rhythms reminiscent of the core of the house; like music, almost familiar and
discernable coming from far away.

Toy train and tracks add a fun element in the staircase

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The silhouette inside becomes an object outside, and a silhouette outside becomes
an object inside. These shifts through day and night makes Aadyam revel in its own
character from deep subjectivity to stoic objectivity: as it lets in the sky, the light and its
shadows, through the day and through itself. Aadyam’s spaces are self-involved and yet
thoughtful, selfish and yet generous, duplicitous and yet, honest all at once.

Bedroom with the tree shooting up from the ground floor

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Bedroom 2
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Toilet overlooking the tree court

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Ground Floor Plan

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First Floor Plan

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Terrace Floor Plan

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East Elevation
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North Elevation
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South Elevation
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West Elevation
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Section AA
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Section BB
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UNIQUE MATERIAL APPLICATIONS Mosaic: Bharat Flooring

Cladding: Corten Steel Wooden Flooring: Living Elements
Windows: Jindal From Maruti Aluminium Air Conditioning: Samsung
Tiles: Nitco
Color: Asian Paints KEY CONTRIBUTORS
Sanitaryware: Villeroy and Boch From Structural: Ajith Alva
Valueline Civil: Shiva Kumar
Bath Fittings: Jaquar From Gala Interiors: Interiors Espania
Furnishing: D’Décor From Drapes Avenue Plumbing: Keshav
Hardware: Dorma Electrical: Parthiban, Achu P Enterprises
Kitchen Sink: Carysil From Kriss Kross
Ply: Greenply PHOTOGRAPHER
Laminates: Merino Niveditaa Gupta

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