The Breathing House / AANGAN Architects
The Breathing House in a “ફળીયા” sits on a 300-square-meter plot within a residential neighborhood in Gujarat’s diamond hub, Surat.
The Breathing House in a “ફળીયા” sits on a 300-square-meter plot within a residential neighborhood in Gujarat’s diamond hub, Surat.
The Kaaryashala is conceptualized around the core idea of Sustainability; be it the massing, the cross-section, the material palette, or details. The start point was reusing all that existed at the old office and the new place.
The site for the house of a jeweler couple and the family of their son, lies minutes away from the coast and required only some elevation over the palms, to be able to afford breath-taking views of the Arabian Sea.
Aranya House is a project driven by being close to nature, not in her refined, cultured form but more as an organic presence. The ultimate objective was to create a structure that would age gracefully and subsequently become a part of the landscape.