BE FAITHFUL TO YOUR OWN PLACE
The project by J9 Associates is located in Surat. The name Sheri house puts you in context with the location and its traditional value. The contemporary façade responds to the characteristics of the narrow street. Houses here reflect features of the traditional load-bearing structures. This project of designing a house in between a Sheri with enough luxurious amenities and fresh air ventilation from a certain height was a challenge.
The mystical grandeur place constructed with meticulous planning, the narrow street house has all the amenities under a roof that includes multipurpose parking (column less), welcoming foyer, living area, kitchen with dining, 3 master bedrooms, a gym, home theatre, and terrace garden.
Firstly, the multipurpose spacious parking which can be occupied by the family for family functions or gatherings followed by the stairs where the sculpture invites indoors. The cuboids evolve into a lively space that speaks for itself. Bright colors enhance the furniture whereas the neutral color scheme makes the living room bold and classy.
The exterior grid plays with the shadow indoors in the kitchen area, whereas the doors to the store room and common washroom are concealed. The main focus on the screen made the home theatre look less compared to the whole place therefore, to make it more lively colorful threads ran along the dark walls.
The bedrooms were simple and quite elegant with enough luxury. The reason to keep it simple was to enhance the old Sheri house details which were giving the room its beauty outside the room window. The old house details did add a lot extra to the room.
Skylights are widely used in designing daylight in places like public, residential and commercial. We here provided a skylight in a residential space because the site was blocked from both sides and the skylight would not only look graceful and aesthetically pleasing but would also have an impact in less electrical lighting use, saving energy, lowering costs, and would help in reducing environmental damage.
Fresh air is a mandatory part of a healthy lifestyle. The locality is quite polluted, as the vehicles run on the roads throughout the day leaving back layers of dust and sounds. The challenge to maintain hygienic fresh air indoors was taken and resolved by installing louvers at the top of the house, which is 60 ft. above the ground level.