Lattice House by Sameep Padora
10/02/2016.
[Jammu] India
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metalocus, CLAUDIA CENDOYA
Lattice House, located on the outskirts of the Indian city of Jammu, has been designed as an urban focus, a forceful response to the surrounding urban anarchy, proper of the newer Indian cities. The façade of wooden slats, in stark contrast with the surrounding elements, has been born as a focus which will generate new formal planning mechanisms.
Urban surroundings. Lattice House by Sameep Padora. Photography courtesy of Edmund Sumner
Urban surroundings. Lattice House by Sameep Padora. Photography courtesy of Edmund Sumner
Interior courtyard. Lattice House by Sameep Padora. Photography courtesy of Edmund Sumner
Interior courtyard. Lattice House by Sameep Padora. Photography courtesy of Edmund Sumner
Interior courtyard. Lattice House by Sameep Padora. Photography courtesy of Edmund Sumner
Night view. Lattice House by Sameep Padora. Photography courtesy of Edmund Sumner
Inside vision. Lattice House by Sameep Padora. Photography courtesy of Edmund Sumner
Inside vision. Lattice House by Sameep Padora. Photography courtesy of Edmund Sumner
Inside vision. Lattice House by Sameep Padora. Photography courtesy of Edmund Sumner
Urban surroundings. Lattice House by Sameep Padora. Photography courtesy of Edmund Sumner
Lattice House by Sameep Padora. Photography courtesy of Edmund Sumner
Axonometry. Lattice House by Sameep Padora
Site plan. Lattice House by Sameep Padora.
Ground floor plan. Lattice House by Sameep Padora
First floor plan. Lattice House by Sameep Padora
Site section. Lattice House by Sameep Padora
Section. Lattice House by Sameep Padora
Section. Lattice House by Sameep Padora
Elevation. Section. Lattice House by Sameep Padora
Diagrammatic section. Lattice House by Sameep Padora
Section. Lattice House by Sameep Padora
Constructive detail. Lattice House by Sameep Padora
Constructive detail. Lattice House by Sameep Padora
Lattice House by Sameep Padora. Photography courtesy of Edmund Sumner
The building, designed by the practice Sameep Pandora & associates, disposes of two floors and is covered by a second facade made of wooden slats. These timber elements, in addition to serving urban visual focus, collaborate on screening the interior from the impact of the strong Indian sunshine. Each level operates as an independent housing unit, distributing its most public rooms (kitchen, living room, dining room) towards the large interior courtyard.
Description of the project by Sameep Pandora & associates
The Lattice house is located in a new suburb on the outskirts of Jammu city in north-western India. Its context is symptomatic of the nature of urbanization in many small cities, scattered throughout the fast urbanizing Indian landscape, where formal planning mechanisms are reactive to new and informal settlements that precede them.
With the immediate landscape compromised by the lack of government/ municipal intervention the house becomes a function for a need of structured form. The lack of a distinct contextual urban fabric (besides the infrastructure pylons) also projects its role as a distinct urban marker visible from a distance, its material singularity in sharp contrast.
The façade of the house is a response to the climatic severity of the region which experiences extremely hot and dry weather for 8 months of the year. Horizontal bands of vertical wood lattice screens encompass balconies, sun-breakers, storage etc., in an attempt to scale the mass of the house as a series of sectional horizontal shifts.
Each of the two levels in the building is to be used by separate families. Programmatically the house is structured by the clients lifestyle which involves a lot of entertaining and hence the kitchen becomes the centre of the plan flanked by the living/dining on one side and the lawn on the other. The private functions of bedrooms are placed to the rear making the collective programs of living, dining and cooking, happen as a seamless space towards the front opening out into the lawn. All programs whether private or public open into side or front garden spaces.
CREDITS. DATA SHEET.-
Design Team: Sudarshan Venkatraman, Aparna Dhareshwar, Karan Bhatt.
MEP Consultant.- R.N. Joshi.
Structural Consultant.- SuhasChande.
Location.- Sidhra, Jammu, J & K, India.
Surface.- 600 sqm.
Completion: January 2015.
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Sameep Padora SAMEEP PADORA & ASSOCIATES
Sameep Padora & associates' gratest interest lies in challenging through their work the formal tradition of various existing typologies, either by a re-interpretation of program or building/design processes. They are specifically interested in the socio-economic forces of change pushing embedded typologies in the context of contemporary culture in India.
They have won several international awards, as, for example, Architectural Review (AR) Emerging Architecture Commendation Award 2010 and Society Interiors Editors Award for Designer of the Year 2010.
Sameep Padora & associates centra su interés en el desarrollo de su trabajo a través de la reinterpretación de las formas tradicionales de diferentes tipologías, ya sea mediante una re-interpretación de los procesos del programa o de construcción/diseño. Se encuentran especialmente fascinado por las fuerzas socio-económicas incrustadas en el contexto de la cultura contemporánea de la India.
Han obtenido varios premios internacionales: el Architectural Review (AR) Emerging Architecture Award 2010 y el Society Interiors Editors Award for Designer 2010.
