Apartment and Trees / vir.mueller architects
The Apartment and Trees residences are designed as a unit of multi-family dwellings for diplomatic missions in New Delhi.
© Andre J. Fanthome
Architects: vir.mueller architects
Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
Design Team: Avneet Kaur, Nishta Vishnoi, Puja Pillai
Area: 1233.0 m2
Project Year: 2016
Photographs: Andre J. Fanthome
Structural: Himanshu Parikh Consulting Engineers
Mep: dbMHS Consultants Pvt. Ltd.
© Andre J. Fanthome
From the architect. The Apartment and Trees residences are designed as a unit of multi-family dwellings for diplomatic missions in New Delhi.
© Andre J. Fanthome
Each of the two duplex apartments offer opportunities for private family functions to be separated sectionally from the more public spaces in each residence. The building is envisioned as a pavilion in a garden oriented to views of the surrounding trees, with limestone floors polished to reflect the soft natural light. A series of balconies and terraces on the periphery of the apartment, nestled in the branches of the old Neem trees, provide space for private contemplation and act as a thermal buffer against the heat.
Ground and Second floor
The interior spaces echo variations in the quality of light, and the color of the surrounding foliage - the only urban link to a fast disappearing landscape in New Delhi. The simple volumes reference the early modernist...
© Andre J. Fanthome
Architects: vir.mueller architects
Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
Design Team: Avneet Kaur, Nishta Vishnoi, Puja Pillai
Area: 1233.0 m2
Project Year: 2016
Photographs: Andre J. Fanthome
Structural: Himanshu Parikh Consulting Engineers
Mep: dbMHS Consultants Pvt. Ltd.
© Andre J. Fanthome
From the architect. The Apartment and Trees residences are designed as a unit of multi-family dwellings for diplomatic missions in New Delhi.
© Andre J. Fanthome
Each of the two duplex apartments offer opportunities for private family functions to be separated sectionally from the more public spaces in each residence. The building is envisioned as a pavilion in a garden oriented to views of the surrounding trees, with limestone floors polished to reflect the soft natural light. A series of balconies and terraces on the periphery of the apartment, nestled in the branches of the old Neem trees, provide space for private contemplation and act as a thermal buffer against the heat.
Ground and Second floor
The interior spaces echo variations in the quality of light, and the color of the surrounding foliage - the only urban link to a fast disappearing landscape in New Delhi. The simple volumes reference the early modernist...
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