This house is on the outskirts of Ahmedabad on a 4-acre land having dense flora, a lily pond and an existing outhouse having a vernacular typology. The new house was to be a permanent dwelling away from the city into the natural wilderness. Earlier the Munshaw family owned a colonial style house in a densely populated locality of Ahmedabad and which was build in mid 20th century. The owner?s initial brief for the new house included a preference to avoid a rigid box formation, a mention of lifestyle that was mostly outdoors, and a dwelling that would be a container for the collection of artifacts, paintings, Persian rugs, books and ancestral furniture.

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Architects: Modo Design

Location: Ranchodpura, India

Architect In Charge: Arpan Shah
Architectural Team: Arpan Shah, Deep Bhagat, Khanjan Joshi

Area: 630.0 m2

Project Year: 2018

Photographs: Bharat Aggarwal

Interior Designer: PVDRS

Structural Consultant: Amee Associates

Electrical Consultant: Saurin Patel

Plumbing Consultant: Chetan Vyas

Client: Maharshee and Shalvi Munshaw

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Text description provided by the architects. This house is on the outskirts of Ahmedabad on a 4-acre land having dense flora, a lily pond and an existing outhouse having a vernacular typology. The new house was to be a permanent dwelling away from the city into the natural wilderne...