Designed in 2017 by Gaurav Roy Choudhury Architects, this inspiring two-story house is located in Ballari, India.

Description
The Bellary House is located in the small town of Bellary known for its Iron Ore mines, boulder landscape, historic ruins and its hot and dry climate.
The house is located in one of Bellary’s transforming neighbourhoods, which is currently seeing a lot of the older modest houses give way to more grander villas.

The house sits on a corner site on edge of this slow but steady transformation.
The site with its dimensions of 60 x 40 ft has its longer edge towards the busier west street and its quieter shorter edge towards the north street.
The house is designed to stave off the outside heat and create cool currents within it so as to form a convectional micro-climate. The outside walls wrap the house in this gesture of protection, pierced only with small and mass produced precast concrete windows that dot this exterior. The windows are kept small with heavy eaves to keep away the harsh sun.
A elevated garden is set in the north east corner as a generator of this microclimate. It is kept open to sky in the shadow of the sun to create currents that flow through the house, just like the light that reflects into the house of its cool surfaces. This Terrace garden is on a mezzanine level as its serves both the ground and the first floor with this generosity of spirit and soft textures.
The family is a small family of four (a coup...