A House of Small Talks designed by WARP architects, On account of rapid urbanization and gentrification of Indian cities, construction and design typologies of houses have become more and more formulaic based on the locally prevailing trends and thus losing their connection with the Neighbour and the Nature. The house is located in a crowded residential neighborhood of Coimbatore within a typical residential block. The design tries to create dialogues between, the house & its neighborhood and the spaces in-between: built and unbuilt. Within the precinct; the dialogue of the inhabitants and spaces.
Photography: Prasanth Mohan, Running Studios
The house is set aback from the street breathing a landscape into congested street making the house perceivable at a glance. Each function of the house is identified as individual volumes and then introduced to a game of twisting, stacking and interlocking creating spaces that overlap spatially and converging angles to a point where the inside meets the outside. The spaces formed due to the irregular angles let the inhabitants discover the use of the same space differently every time. These allowschanging equations between all the components of the house defining the act of living.
The twisting of the central block creates a courtyard around which the rest of the block is pivoted, the courtyard visually binds all the spaces together and hence rightly becomes the house of the deity( Pooja room), the idea of having the divine lo...