A Hint of Azul is a minimalist nordic-style apartment located in Mumbai, India, designed in 2022 by Dig Architects.

Description
The common critique of a house has been of a dead narrow passage connecting different spaces. Hence we hoped to create spaces that hold social relationships of the family and the movement relationship between body and space. Here the house has been articulated in a way that the passage has become a transition from one space to another space. It has been looked at as a journey in itself, where space expands and contracts as one moves through it.
The apartment owner is a family of five. They have been a part of the construction industry for a very long time and built their own networks through their work. Their main requirement was to have a simple and calm space. They had a desire to have a space that has Nordic roots and allows an atmosphere for other people to come together. The site being a twin flat, remained a basic house of 4- bedrooms even after reimaging the plan. Breaking the main partition in between gave a huge central space with all rooms opening into it. The huge rectangular (Maidan) shared space wouldn’t allow appropriations to happen. As a design strategy, we then used Soft Curves as a tool and started scooping out spaces to create thresholds.
The main transition space becomes the dining from which the rest of the spaces branch out further creating various kinds of niches and soft curves. The so...