“有一棵树。

我与它的关系是，同一波微风经过我们两个人的身边–Shanta Shelke”

“There is a tree.

My relationship with it is that the same wave of breeze goes past the both of us -Shanta Shelke”

建筑是关于包容性的，就像关于环境、设计和居住者的背景一样。它是关于建立边界，但也在必要时模糊它们。位于马哈拉施特拉邦亚瓦特农村的 “静室之家 “是为一个农业家庭的两兄弟设计的。这座传统的四合院建立在自然、情感和物理边界之美的基础上，但其本质是借用了院子和院子里的树。粉刷过的外墙反映了客户需求的简单性，他显然想要一个能愉快地容纳家庭成员和芒果树的房子，同时照顾到实用性以及功能性。在这里，很难界定优先次序，谁是最重要的–家庭、树，还是房子；每个人都是彼此存在的重要部分。

Architecture is about inclusivity, just as much about the environment, design, and the inhabitant’s context. It is about making boundaries but also blurring them where need be. Located in the rural village of Yavat, Maharashtra is The House of Tranquil Rooms, designed for an agricultural family of two brothers. The traditional courtyard house builds upon the beauty of natural, emotional, and physical boundaries, but its essence is borrowed from the courtyard and its tree. The whitewashed exteriors reflect the simplicity of the client’s needs—he clearly wants a house that happily accommodates the family members, and the mango tree, while taking care of the utility as well as functionality. Here, it is hard to define the precedence, who comes foremost—the families, the tree, or the house; everyone is a crucial part of each other’s existence.

房子俯瞰着老芒果树，当人们绕过它时，房子在空间上界定并模糊了人与自然之间的界限。走在用天然石头铺成的院子走廊上，一只两只麻雀可能会从你头上飞过–可以明显感觉到对自然的包容和尊重。虽然一家人都呆在同一个屋檐下，但空间的设计是合理的，以方便家庭活动的适当配额。每个人都有自己的空间–在窗户附近有一些空间可以用来阅读、练习瑜伽或俯瞰农场。然而，孩子们则拥有整个房子；从入口到大露台，房子都是他们的福地。毫无疑问，在一天中的任何时候，家里每个人最喜欢的地方总是靠近那棵老芒果树，毕竟，它把他们和树根捆绑在一起，同时给他们带来阴凉、认同感和一整筐的芒果。无论是在院子里的走廊上展开晨报，还是把小牛牵来参观，这棵树和圣洁的图尔西-弗林达万都会给予他们祝福。毕竟，它们与给家庭成员带来喘息的微风一起沙沙作响，呼吸着同样的空气。

The house overlooks the old mango tree, and as one goes around it, the house spatially defines and blurs lines between people and nature. Walk in the courtyard corridor paved with natural stone, and a sparrow of two might fly over your head-the inclusion and respect for nature can be felt evidently. Although the family stays together under the same roof, spaces are designed with sensible appropriations to facilitate just the right quota of familial activities. Everyone has a place of their own—there are spaces carved out near the windows for reading, practicing yoga, or overlooking the farms. The kids, however, have the entire house to themselves; from the entrance to the big terrace, the house is blessed with. Undoubtedly and at all times during the day, everyone’s favorite spot in the house is always near the old mango tree, after all, it binds them to the roots while giving them shade, a sense of identity, and a whole basket of mangoes. Be it the unfolding of the morning newspaper in the courtyard corridor or bringing the calves in for a tour, the tree, and the holy tulsi vrindavan shower their blessing. After all, they rustle with and breathe on the same breeze that gives respite to the family members.

非常像人类的倾向，房子依次展开，从每个家庭使用的单层高度空间，到两个家庭一起在餐厅吃饭或在客厅讨论他们的一天时的双层高度空间。阳台以同样的热情欢迎同村人和小牛。朝东的窗户兼作房间，为房子里的任何人和每个人提供庇护，其亲密的规模与居民个人联系在一起。由于该家庭遵循储存谷物和备用器皿的传统，所以在公用事业区旁边还提供了一个储藏室。调色板与该地的背景相匹配–白色是为了倡导男人传统上穿的颜色，而房子里的其他每一种颜色都是为了庆祝家庭妇女的纱裙。孩子们的记忆、男人们的仪式和妇女们的笑声构成了房子的装饰，只与一两个手绘的牛车轮相配。

Very much like human tendencies the house sequentially unfolds itself, from single-height spaces for each family’s use to double-height spaces for accommodating the two families together as they have their meals in the dining room or discuss their day in the living room. The verandah welcomes fellow villagers and calves with the same warmth. The east-facing windows double up as rooms to provide refuge to anyone and everyone in the house and the intimate scale of it personally connects with the inhabitants. Since the family follows the tradition of storing grains and spare utensils, a store room is provided, alongside the utility area. The color palette matches the site’s context—whites for advocating the color men traditionally wear and every other color in the house to celebrate the sarees of the household women. The memories of the children, the rituals of the men, and the giggles of the women make up the decor of the house, paired only with a hand-painted bullock cart wheel or two.

无论从哪个角度看，都能看到郁郁葱葱的农场，这让你生动地感受到生活在村子里的宁静和根基，那里的人是谦逊的，自然是仁慈的，生活是不复杂的。这就是为保护、滋养和尊重村庄的传统生活方式而建造的房屋，并以小而重要的建筑干预措施加以加强。

With abundant and resplendent views of lush green farms from whichever aperture you peep from, it vividly makes you feel the tranquility and rootedness of living in a village, where people are humble, nature is benevolent, and lives are uncomplicated. Such is this house built to protect, nourish, and pay homage to the village’s traditional ways of living, enhanced with small yet significant architectural interventions.

Architects: Craft Narrative
Area: 4500 m²
Year: 2023
Photographs:Studio Recall, Studio Sohaib
Lead Architects: Yatindra Patil, Vijay kharade
Structural Consultants: StructCon Engineers
Design Team: Bharat Yadav, Shubham Kapre, Vivek Wanarase, Ajay Harsure, Vijay Kharade, Yatindra Patil
Fabricator: Wasim Kazi
City: Yavat
Country: India