我们从最基本的东西开始,因为房子是自己的 “天堂”,一个私人的 “容器”,通过它,人们也与 “自然和社会的元素 “联系起来。它必须表现出自己的本性,成为一个友好的地方,让过往的人感到被邀请。房子的形式被归结为两个基本组成部分,即 “一个亭子和一个盒子”,一个在程序上和体验上被探索为私人/公共、开放/封闭的透明/不透明的双重性。充分挖掘场地的潜力,面对一块空旷的绿地,以富有想象力的方式与限制性的法规合作,也成为一个首要的关注点。

We began with the very fundamentals, as house being ones ‘heaven’, a private ‘container’ through which one also connects to “elements of nature and society”. It had to be expressive of ones nature by being that friendly place where a passer by felt invited. The house form was boiled down to 2 essential components i.e. “a pavilion and a box”, a dualityexplored programmatically and experientially as private /public, open /closed transparent/opaque throughout. Exploiting the full potential of the site facing an empty green plot and working with the limiting by-laws imaginatively became an overriding concern too.

这个朝东的地块成为阳光和天空的容器。它被分成两部分:左边是一个朝向 “炎热的南方 “的盒子,右边是沿着 “凉爽的北方 “的开放亭子。地面层被想象成 “清空自己”,允许一个大型的开放式阳台从前面的边缘一直延伸到场地的尽头,作为一个真正的 “喘息 “空间,否则密集的建筑街道空间。这2个非特定的空间是为了邀请多种空间使用。

This east-facing plot became a receptacle of sun and sky. It bisected itself in 2 bays: left side being a box towards the ‘hot south’ and right side being the open pavilion along the ‘cooler north’. The ground floor was visualized virtually as “emptying itself out” allowing a large OPEN verandah running from the front edge to end of site as a real “breather” in an otherwise densely built street space” Next to this street-side pavilion is a long enclosed hall with 2 compact toilet smartly tucked in the setbacks. These 2 non-specific spaces were meant to invite multiple space uses.

今天,这个较低的区域作为创意实验的空间,偶尔会有一些活动,如艺术展览、儿童工作坊、音乐晚会、诗歌朗诵会等,也会邀请邻居们成为不受约束的参与者,它还可以替代车辆横行的街道,成为儿童的安全游戏空间。从这个阳台,一个楼梯下降到一个下沉的庭院,通往一个地窖空间。地窖空间作为独立从业者的联合工作空间,以相互容忍和开放的愿景为模式。

This lower zone today functions as a space of creative experiments, where occasional events such as art exhibitions, children workshops, music evenings, poetry readings take place, also inviting neighbors to be uninhibited participants, Its also substitutes as a safe play space for children over the vehicle ridden street. Form this verandah a stair descends to a sunken courtyard that leads to a cellar space. The cellar space functions as co-working space for independent practitioners modeled on a vision of mutual tolerance and openness.

此外,前面的后退并没有浪费自己,而是允许一个狗腿楼梯上升到居住层,下面是UPS和其他有用的东西的存储。上层通过 “抬高和跷起”,像一个阁楼一样,来界定其与街道的隐私。通过使用勇敢的全高玻璃和木门,对面的绿化带成为我们客厅的一部分。从体量上看,这是一个充满戏剧性和活力的空间,所有的运动都与之相连,这是一个充满声音和气味的地方。

Further the front setback doesn’t waste itself but allows a dog legged stair to rise up to the living floor under which tuck a storage for UPS and other useful stuff. Upper level defines its privacy from street by being “raised and stilted” like a loft to ascend to. The green belt across becomes part of our living room through the use of courageous full high glass and wood doors. Volumetrically this is the space of drama and liveliness to which all movements connect, a place of sounds & smells.

一个上升的开放式楼梯通向上面的私人工作室,也作为一个戏剧舞台和房子里的儿童游戏机。邻近的卧室空间属于左箱体,通过滑动墙面的玻璃板,实际上也与这个生活馆融合在一起,让人们在一个小地方体验到场地的宽度。位于顶层的工作室是一个私人实验室,人们可能会在那里度过最长的时间…… 这在其制作和精神上进一步减轻了自己,并作为 “天空的释放 “和一个沉思的空间。

An ascending open stair to a private studio above acts also as a theatrical stage and a PlayStation for children within the house. The adjoining bedroom spaces that belong to the left box also virtually merge into this living pavilion through sliding walls glass panels allowing one to experience the width of the site in a small plot. The studio on the top floor is ones private lab where one is likely to spend the maximum time… This in its making and spirit further lightens itself and serves as the “skyward release” and a space for contemplation.

通过玩弄法律,最大限度地提取定性空间的态度,产生了赋予房子独特个性的元素,例如像长延伸的内置座椅或金属屋顶和客厅墙壁,或服务阳台。虽然材料的使用和细节的感觉似乎是倾向于现代的外观,但却以低维护的能源问题为指导。这座横跨4层的房子给人的感觉就像一个开放的框架,在它开始界定其特性之前,所有的空间都会有不同的用途……这意味着只有在生活和成长中才能发现。

An attitude of maximum extraction of qualitative space by juggling with Byelaws gave rise to elements that give the house its distinct characters, such as like long extensions of running built-in seats or a metallic roof and living room walls, or the service balconies. The use of materials and sense of detailing though seemingly is inclined towards a contemporary look is guided by a low maintenance energy concern. The house across 4 levels feels like an open frame inviting different uses in all spaces before in time it starts defining its specificities… meant to be discovered only with living in as well as growing up.

Architects: Meeta Jain Architects
Area: 2000 ft²
Year: 2015
Photographs: Manoj Sudhakaran
Lead Architect: Meeta Jain
Consultants: B.L. Manjunath & Co
Client:Meeta Jain
City:Bengaluru
Country:India