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A multifamily residential building in Telangana’s capital city, Hyderabad, and a house on a 20-ha mango plantation near the town of Pileru are two fine examples of work conceived by Kruthica. Although adopting different formal solutions, both consistently emphasize structural elements as part of a complex design process.
Analyzing these works, studio founder and architect Sudhir Reddy highlights the fact that the spatial composition evolved out of specific requirements associated with each building’s construction. The practice seeks a balance between meticulously controlled detail, managed via engineering and a minimalist approach, and the scale of the macro structure, which is the determinant of the distribution-related, spatial, compositional, and formal outcomes, leveraging a design language aligned with the project’s technological aspects.
Set in a structural steel framework presented in all its evident simplicity, the Stone Acre project accommodates three apartments and a shared, lower-floor service area for residents. The terrain’s elevation was exploited to carve out a basement level serving both as a foundation for the whole building and a place for parking spaces.
The north- and east-facing façades are characterized by the exposed framework and its interplay with vegetation, its porosity contrasted by the more solid block of the western façade. Designed as architectural screens and serving to mitigate the temperature, private gardens at each floor are encased within the vertical structural grid; the varying colors of the planted trees lend the façade dynamism. Exposed concrete planters alternate with the backdrop of this urban jungle, cadenced by a 150x150 mm, MS steel reticulated framework with an I beam section. Exposed concrete surfaces offer a common visual thread throughout the building spaces, complemented by a palette of finishes chosen specifically to highlight the...
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