With frugal beginnings, the bungalow residential typology’s various evolutions reached their post-colonial zenith of opulence, sub-urbanism and privilege in the late 1990’s. Subsequently, enhanced pressures on urban land and liberalised real-estate market forces reduced the ubiquity of the large land parcels required for bungalows (typically upwards of 4000 sqm). That scarcity, however, continues to substantially elevate the aspirational desire to live in one. This project interrogates the Delhi bungalow typology on a substantially smaller plot. 

Noida,Uttar Pradesh,India

Architects : Anagram Architects
Area : 7696 sq.ft.
Year : 2018
Website : https://www.instagram.com/anagramarchitects/

Exterior view of The BungaLOW by Anagram Architects


Exterior view of The BungaLOW by Anagram Architects


Exterior view of The BungaLOW by Anagram Architects


Exterior view of The BungaLOW by Anagram Architects


Exterior view of The BungaLOW by Anagram Architects


Exterior view of The BungaLOW by Anagram Architects


Terrace garden of The BungaLOW by Anagram Architects

Built on a 900 sqm plot in the NOIDA suburb to Delhi, this design is home to a nuclear family at the cusp of becoming a multi-generational household. The 4 bedroom suites and family spaces are slung, in stacked low-rise volumes, peripherally around a manicured lawn meant for social gathering. A private green rises onto the rooftop of the more public program of the formal living, dining and home-office, segregated into the angled Northeast wing. A colonnaded verandah that runs along both levels of the facade providing a contiguous buffer to the residence from the front lawn. The rooms recess behind the verandah which protects from the high summer sun. Porcelain tiles on a minimal steel lattice enhance shade to the verandah, referencing the roll-up blinds or fixed trellises traditionally used to reduce glare. The patterns is designed for the solar angles of the Northwest facing site and daylight and thermal comfort levels required indoors. 


Dining of The BungaLOW by Anagram Architects


Dining of The BungaLOW by Anagram Architects


Staircase of The BungaLOW by Anagram Architects


Staircase of The BungaLOW by Anagram Architects


Staircase of The BungaLOW by Anagram Architects


Deck of The BungaLOW by Anagram Architects


Bedroom of The BungaLOW by Anagram Architects


Toilet of The BungaLOW by Anagram Architects


Washroom of The BungaLOW by Anagram Architects


Balcony of The BungaLOW by Anagram Architects

The design is consistent to the bungalow typology of ordered low density volumes and similarly uses a contiguous colonnaded verandah as a formal privacy and thermal buffer. The architecture adopts a more contemporary approach to typology's typically maximal programmatic connect with the outdoors (E.g. through the rooftop family green ) and responds to the Eclectic Modern tastes of the family (E.g. in its reinterpretation of traditional shading devices).


Bird eye view of The BungaLOW by Anagram Architects


Elevation of The BungaLOW by Anagram Architects


Ground Floor Plan of The BungaLOW by Anagram Architects


First floor plan of The BungaLOW by Anagram Architects


Section AA of The BungaLOW by Anagram Architects




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