A Tropical home Formed by Vaults
Encasa Archstudio completes its Vault Home in Kerala, India as a 3 story tropical residence that brings uncovered concrete vaults into dialogue with daylight and greenery. Conceived for a multi generational family comprising a pair, their daughter, and oldsters, the house displays a transparent consumer ambition for a novel but livable surroundings formed by daylight, breezes, and plant-life.
Positioned within the coronary heart of city, the home exactly negotiates degree modifications of its sloping web site. A basement is woven into the terrain fairly than hid inside it to create a further layer of sunlit residing area.
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the sunlit, underground swimming pool
The staff at Encasa Archstudio designs its Vault Home with a below-grade swimming pool and courtyard. Right here, an arched grill above filters gentle whereas making certain safety, casting curved shadows that shift throughout cement surfaces all through the day. An elongated cement bench reinforces the uncooked language of the venture, providing a spot to pause inside an in any other case utilitarian setting.
The presence of water at this degree units the tone for the home, as gentle displays off the pool and onto surrounding concrete, mediating the heaviness of the fabric. The courtyard planting softens the perimeters of the construction and introduces a way of enclosure that’s each intimate and open to the sky.
the residence is formed by 4 uncovered concrete vaults
a koi pond on the residence’s core
The Vault Home’s floor ground is organized by Encasa Archstudio as a fluid residing surroundings that features two bedrooms, residing and eating areas, and a household space. Circulation strikes simply between these zones, guided by sightlines and the presence of water on the heart. The eating space types the emotional core of the house, organized round a koi pond that introduces sound, motion, and reflection into on a regular basis routines.
On the primary ground, Encasa Archstudio introduces two cut up ranges. One degree incorporates the kid’s bed room with an hooked up research, whereas the raised degree homes the primary suite.
A defining gesture seems within the type of nose to nose balconies positioned instantly above the koi pond. A bed room balcony cantilevers outward over the water, whereas one other is enveloped in greenery. This association creates a visible dialogue throughout generations and permits connection throughout voids whereas preserving seclusion. The spatial relationship between pond, balconies, and eating space creates a vertical thread that binds the home collectively.
gray cement textures and tropical planting outline the ambiance
4 vaults of uncovered concrete
The venture takes its identify from 4 uncovered concrete vaults that outline each construction and character. Left in an unfinished texture, the vaults reveal the marks of development and the rhythm of formwork. Their mass is lightened by teak-framed glass home windows that puncture the concrete shell, introducing transparency and cross air flow.
These vaults give the residence a robust silhouette whereas shaping inside quantity. Mild slides alongside curved ceilings and emphasizes their geometry. Just like the swimming pool, tropical plantings round and inside the home additional stability the burden of the concrete.
teak-framed home windows puncture the concrete vaults
face-to-face balconies encourage visible connection between bedrooms
tropical plantings stability the heaviness of the concrete construction
