The V House - By Radical Architecture

 
Client's Brief:

 
The Client's brief is for a home of 7 Family members of three generations. The Client's desire was to have a luxurious home with contemporary design, an iconic landmark in the locality and also a home that can house all the memories, happiness, love and laughter of their children and the grand children.

 
The site is north facing and is located in a Residential Neighborhood near to IG Square which is a prominent location in the coastal city of Pondicherry. It is a corner Plot with 30 feet wide roads on the North and West sides. The Client's expectation was that Pondicherry being a French city of prominent French heritage buildings, his residence should strike a contrast to its heritage mimicked surroundings.

 
The site being 30 feet wide and 60 feet long, the client's concern was to expand the constraints of a smaller plot and to make the site and consequently the house appear larger.

 
Concept Note:
The V House is totally a 3 floored structure with requirements being split in Basement, Ground and First floor. The bedroom for the elderly generations and the lobby for them are organized at the Basement floor. The Kitchen, the Dining, the Family entrance lobby and the Living room has an open-plan arrangement. This makes the interior spaces blend into each other seamlessly. The column-free and the partition-free interiors enhances the flow of the Kota stone flooring for the entire floor plate. The transparent nature of the spaces in the ground floor allows unobstructed visual connections across its large floor plate and even the uninterrupted diagonal views also.

 
The V House is a residence that is blended with many different spatial experiences in a small site. We have planned the circulation inside the Home through varied volumes scaling Double-Height and Triple-Height spans.