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Verandah House in Ranchodpura, Ahmedabad
Contemporary Residential Development in India – design by Arpan Shah Architecture firm ? Modo Design
19 July 2019
Verandah House in Ranchodpura, Ahmedabad
Architects: Arpan Shah Architect, Modo Design
Location: Ranchodpura, Outskirts of Ahmedabad, India

Verandah House in Ranchodpura, Ahmedabad
This house is on the outskirts of Ahmedabad designed by Arpan Shah, India on a 4 acre plot with dense flora, a lily pond and an subsisting outhouse having a vernacular typology.

The new house was to be a permanent dwelling away from the city into the natural wilderness. Earlier the Munshaw family owned a colonial style house in a densely populated locality of Ahmedabad, India 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 engenders an element of surprise in the experience of interior space.

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