Homes We Love: Every day we feature an exceptional space sent by our community of designers, designers, home builders, and property owners. Have one to share? Post it here.Project Information: Location: Solapur, India Professional photographer: Hemant Patil From the
Designer: “This home is
developed for a little multigenerational family: a couple, their 2 kids, and aging grandparents. The program reflects the family’s belief in vastu and includes three bed rooms in addition to important facilities. An essential impact on the style came from the kids’s deep interest in classical music, resulting in a devoted space for practice and efficiency.”The final design emerged from a cautious balance in between the customer’s expectations and
the website’s contextual constraints. The southwest corner provided greater openness, while the north and east sides were constrained by surrounding development. Your home was first imagined as an L-shaped volume enclosing the northeast side for personal privacy and opening toward the southwest through verandahs extending into a large garden. However, the client’s strong insistence on putting the bed room in the southwest corner, according to vastu, resulted in the addition of a cuboidal block in the southwest, developing a structure of 2 distinct volumes: the at first planned L-shaped block and the recently included concrete cuboid.”Placing this cuboidal block in front of the L-shaped volume produces an open-to-sky, L-shaped interstitial zone in between them.
Within this in-between area, a main courtyard is sculpted to physically and visually link the two blocks. The yard incorporates a staircase that links different levels while permitting natural light to filter through. The open southern side serves as a wind-catcher, directing air into the courtyard, where a body of water cools it before it spreads out through your house. Upper openings release warm air, and together the south court, main courtyard, skylights, and wall openings support natural light and passive ventilation throughout the day.”To establish spatial continuity and a cohesive identity, crucial functions such as the living-room, kitchen-dining, household area, and research study, are placed across staggered levels.
These areas are oriented inward, creating layered visual connections along the main stair. On the ground flooring, the living areas extend into a shared courtyard that transforms into an efficiency space or a’ rangmanch’with stepped seating that supports intimate musical baithaks and events.” The design extends beyond practical requirements to assess the identity of place, drawing from Solapur’s architectural history. Before colonial impact, the city’s
developed material was shaped by standard Wadas, climate-responsive, inward-facing homes built with local materials and craftsmanship. Gradually, these gave way to more official, symmetrical designs and commercial products presented during colonial and postcolonial durations. The L-shaped block remembers these traditional sensibilities with its exposed brick walls and a sloping roofing that nearly touches the ground. Constructed with in your area sourced brick and crafted by regional artisans, it reinterprets vernacular worths in a contemporary method. In contrast, the adjacent cuboidal volume draws from the architectural language of the colonial and postcolonial eras. Its exposed concrete walls reinterpret stone as put concrete, with layered surfaces and subtle offsets, forming an Indo-brutalist identity. The block concludes with a modest planted terrace using a peaceful time out within the composition.”