The Lucknow Project ? A Modern Mansion In Disguise
Four buildings were purchased in Lucknow city to create one whole plot for a single new luxury home. The build site is situated along a busy arterial road, and neighboured on three sides by a tightly packed development of private homes. Therefore, a large home would have seemed out of place, or perhaps even brash. […]
Four buildings were purchased in Lucknow city to create one whole plot for a single new luxury home. The build site is situated along a busy arterial road, and neighboured on three sides by a tightly packed development of private homes. Therefore, a large home would have seemed out of place, or perhaps even brash. To combat this, Sanjay Puri Architects broke this bespoke home design into pieces: Split living spaces and sleeping volumes were imagined, to cut channels to a large courtyard for a blissful through-breeze. Decorative screens based on traditional ‘chikan’ embroidery were installed to visually fragment the modern home exterior further, and serve purpose in shading the interior from the searing sun.
Lucknow city in India is a place of rich heritage, with a number of historical buildings dating back to the 18th century. Traditional buildings in the city burst with towering archways on a terrific scale that dwarf this modern mini mansion. As the plot was located in the midst of a very modern development area, extravagant traditional style was not the way to go. Instead, the modern home exterior was fragmented to look like a set of smal...
Four buildings were purchased in Lucknow city to create one whole plot for a single new luxury home. The build site is situated along a busy arterial road, and neighboured on three sides by a tightly packed development of private homes. Therefore, a large home would have seemed out of place, or perhaps even brash. To combat this, Sanjay Puri Architects broke this bespoke home design into pieces: Split living spaces and sleeping volumes were imagined, to cut channels to a large courtyard for a blissful through-breeze. Decorative screens based on traditional ‘chikan’ embroidery were installed to visually fragment the modern home exterior further, and serve purpose in shading the interior from the searing sun.
Lucknow city in India is a place of rich heritage, with a number of historical buildings dating back to the 18th century. Traditional buildings in the city burst with towering archways on a terrific scale that dwarf this modern mini mansion. As the plot was located in the midst of a very modern development area, extravagant traditional style was not the way to go. Instead, the modern home exterior was fragmented to look like a set of smal...
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