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Headquartered in Ahmedabad in India’s northwestern state of Gujarat, Studio Sangath’s approach to its broad palette of projects of widely differing scale, function, and client has always been uniquely tailored to the particular requirements of each context and individual client.
The common denominators underpinning the firm’s design approach – whether an addition to an existing building or a new-build in the country – is summed up in the honest, uncluttered use of materials and the creation of articulated spaces that are revealed gradually as you pass from one area to another.
Located in completely different parts of the metropolitan area of Ahmedabad in terms of urban density and landscape, the two residential projects – Black Perch and Terra Pavilion – successfully meet the specific demands of both client and context.
Having decided not to relinquish their 40-year-old, two-story family home in a densely populated neighborhood, the heirs to this property asked Studio Sangath’s architects to design an extension and make the whole place more attune to today’s lifestyles. The need for new communal areas of socialization led to the design of a new volume, Black Perch, and the rearrangement the existing internal circulation.
Since enlarging the building’s footprint was not feasible, the designers came up with the novel idea of developing a new volume on top of the house, despite the impediment of a pitched roof. This constraint was, however, an opportunity to develop an unexplored potential and lend new significance to a home that otherwise would have been put on the market or left unused. Indeed, far from a simple add-on, the new volume was conceived as a catalyst of the remodeling and transformation of the whole residence and the way it is now lived in.
Perched on top of the two existing stories, the new volume houses a large living room with kitchenette, study cum...
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