The Verandah House, Ahmedabad Real Estate, Indian Architecture, Interior, Images
The Verandah House in Ahmedabad
High-End Real Estate In India – design by Modo Designs
4 Nov 2018
The Verandah House
Architecture: Modo Designs

Location: Ranchodpura, Outskirts of Ahmedabad, India
The Verandah House
This house is on the outskirts of Ahmedabad on a 4 acre land having dense flora, a lily pond and an existing outhouse having a vernacular typology. The new house was to be a permanent dwelling away from the hustle and bustle of the city.

Earlier the Munshaw Family owned a colonial styled house in a densely populated locality of Ahmedabad and which was build in mid 20 th century.

The owner?s initial brief for the new house included a preference to avoid a rigid box formation, a mention of life style that was mostly outdoors, and a dwelling that would be a container for collection of artifacts, paintings, Persian rugs, books and ancestral furniture.
The proposed design weaves and integrates the above concerns. The fluid curvilinear formation is reinterpretation of imagery of old ancestral house and also to reiterate the existing natural formation on the site. The house bends to allow views of the lily pond and simultaneously generates an element of surprise in the experience of interior space.

The entry verandah, lower and upper verandah that comprises a major part of the house and all these are oriented towards main garden and lily pond. These are 15 feet cantilevered...