Ambara House by Wright Inspires

Ambara, a warm and welcoming home, is like a puzzle with 1000 pieces, slowly pieced together with the right hands, the spaces come alive. The colours are vivid, the design sparks uniqueness and an ingenious glass sky-light at forty odd feet steals the show. In the context of where the site itself is located, achieving an atmosphere of serene calm inside a home, a home that sits within the busy-bustling city of Bangalore seems almost pretentious and borderline fictitious, but to do so convincingly is no mean feat. The area of the site being compact with namely three abutting neighbouring plots, the main idea was to bring in light from the central sky-light. One can gaze into the sky from the oval, as it is fondly called, and watch the clouds slowly sail by while sitting in the comfort of their own home.

One omnipotent and omnipresent element in home is light. Unlike the other materials in home that are stationary, the beauty of light is that it’s dynamic, they see new patterns everyday and so it brings life to the spaces they design.  The home has a wide range of natural stones and materials, there’s Kota and Jaisalmer stones used as flooring, pink magadi stones are used for the basement walls, all the wood used in the house is recycled and there is of course terracotta and some exposed brick walls here and there. The house has solar panels for energy and heating water, it uses a large number of LED lights and has a huge underground tank for rainwater conservation. It by principle does not have a bore well as extracting groundwater inconsiderately is bad for the environment.