Vista Farmhouse by pk_iNCEPTiON

The Vista, is a farmhouse envisioned to capture two major vistas from one central space, contemplating and lingering in nature, surrounded by beautiful vast green pastures and mountains, alongside a dam in the city of Nashik.

Our clients are three brothers, who came with a desire to build a weekend house for their families to come together, away from populated city life to find solitude. The two-acre rectangular site has a sloping plot accessed at the highest contour from the east side; on the west lie the farmlands while the backwaters range from South-East to South-West. The brief was to have four bedrooms connected to common spaces like living, dining, and a pantry overlooking backwaters and farms.

To inhabit, we started with a generic idea of having a ‘shed’ in farmland that suffices the need for relaxed living. The highest contour on the east side gives a perfect location to capture the vistas. On this contour is a tree, alongside which we placed an elevated horizontal plane to create that shed, giving a better view from the top. Introducing a plane gave it the autonomy to witness the vistas and yet, have a space to rest under the sky.

We believed even a generic idea like shed can be perfectly manifested by sensitively responding to context. Further to stay on this contour, the idea was to hide the adjacent structures on either side so they would not invade privacy and block the view. Retaining the horizontal plane we introduced two built masses on the south and north respectively forming semi-open spaces in-between. The composition of two built blocks connected with two horizontal planes shaped the idea of a shed as a family space and built blocks as secured private spaces.