The building blocks
Sandeep Khosla and Amaresh Anand
Principal Architects, Khosla Associates, Bangalore www.khoslaassociates.com
Private residence house 1058/ Hyderabad
What makes this project a success?
Our clients had expressed their wish for an iconic structure as seen from the road and from within. Primarily the roof forms were constructed to be climate sensitive, to combat the fierce summer sun as well as the heavy monsoon rain in Hyderabad while allowing the best quality of natural light into the house. But apart from being a climate sheltering device we also managed the forms to be bold and innovative and visually playful.
Salient/key features of the project.
The house is characterised by its accentuated and cantilevered timber clad trapezoidal roof forms that hover above the main spaces. A series of staggered rooms with slopes in different directions orient towards the privacy of an internal garden
When was it completed? It was completed in 2016 after three years of extensive work.
