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Reframing the panorama through a rotating axis mapped from the land’s contours

Radial House

Tanvi Jindal Shete

JSW, Vijaynagar, Karnataka

2021

Built Up : 29,000 sq ft | Site : 1.5 million sq ft

Radial House

AT A GLANCE

  • 4

    degree shift of perspective with each room

PROJECT OVERVIEW

Conceptualized as a labyrinth the form has an underpinning geometry that emerges from the center. The brick skin swells to envelope this frame.

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A lyrical home that is a construct of craft, culture, narrative and joy. Spaces of this writer’s home are organized to connect and reconnect like a labyrinth. Creating the curiosity of the beyond and the feeling of an infinitive journey. Multiple staircases and a lift, connect the house 
in a way that evokes discovery.

 

“The first time I visited the apartment, I ended up spending an hour or two walking around the place. Just when the sun set, this incredible rosy light invaded the space, casting everything it touched in a pink haloed glow,” says Singh. “And yet, this beautiful light had nowhere to go; it was contained by the walls of the two rooms on either side of the living space, shrouding the rest of the apartment, which was a shame. I knew, then, that the first step of my design process would be to open the space up, so it could engage with the intense aura of the sunset. The notation is based on the principle of bipolarity, representing truth.

On a closer look, geometry—especially the circle—is revealed as a recurring theme. “The [circle] returns throughout the apartment, in perimeters and in details,” says Singh. “Having completely revised the layout, I asked myself: how do I create the sensation of ‘feeling at home’? To translate the notions of warmth and security, I used the shape of a circle, which collects within itself but does not close, does not isolate.” The circles, peppered across the apartment, are not always obvious; they hide, and linger, until they suddenly erupt into view. And yet, the circle is ubiquitous: in the library, it pops up in the sculptural lamp by Michael Anastassiades for Flos; hides in plain sight in the backrest of the living room’s ‘Pipe’ armchairs by Moroso; and reappears in the delicate crown moulding across the apartment. It is both realized and implied; the Marmara marble flooring in the master bathroom traces an unmissable arc, while the black and white dome on the cc-tapis rug finds its other half only when the custom-designed semicircle table by Singh is placed next to it, adjusted to the perfect angle.

In this evolving canvas—that shifts and morphs along with the lives that it contains within the walls—the only constant is the streaking light that filters through the veranda. Here, the rose-tinted light is the conductor; the rest, mere musicians, dancing to its tune.

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Green Roof

A planted green roof softens the architecture, moderating heat gain while extending the landscape upward into lived, inhabitable surfaces.

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Timber Glazing

Timber-framed glazing mediates between interior and landscape, combining warmth and transparency to frame views, light, and seasonal change.

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Exposed Concrete

Exposed concrete slabs hover lightly, their sculpted profiles expressing structural clarity while lending quiet monumentality and permanence to the built form.

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Granite Pool

Granite-lined pool edges ground water and architecture together, their cool, tactile surfaces reinforcing durability, reflection, and seamless outdoor inhabitation.

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