House in a Grove, India / STO.M.P Architects
Discover the ‘House in a Grove’ by STO.M.P Architects in Chettinad, blending contemporary design with rich cultural heritage for a unique and harmonious living space.
Discover the ‘House in a Grove’ by STO.M.P Architects in Chettinad, blending contemporary design with rich cultural heritage for a unique and harmonious living space.
This compact dwelling follows the line of the hillside, bravely and unconventionally sloping down towards the view. The stepped plan stretches the view of the mountains long and low, just like a rock outcrop would.
A canopy of angled ceiling planes radiate out towards the expansive city and mountain views while defining the various volumes of the Cholla Vista house.
This hilltop contemporary farmhouse showcases the transitional blending of modern and traditional elements. With multiple outdoor living spaces, the home was designed to take advantage of 270 degrees of sweeping views of Lake Travis and the surrounding hill country.
The basis of the Hewn House design starts with a cabin’s simple form and materiality: a gable roof, a wood-clad body, a prominent fireplace that acts as the hearth, and integrated indoor-outdoor spaces.
Ryan House is located on a large 6,500m² plot on the outskirts of Blenheim. “There is a lot of development going on in the Springlands part of the town where the house is sited, and Hamish Ryan had already collaborated with us …
Privacy and altimetric asymmetry are the main concerns of this specific intervention zone. Therefore we established a dialogue between this duality, building around programmatic voids, exogenous or endogenous.
Morgana House is somewhere else. Surrounded by neighboring homes dating from the late nineteenth century, the building is like an abstract volumetric study for a potential building and seems to have fallen out of context.