House of Stories designed by Mathew and Ghosh Architects, The initial proposition had been intriguing, the client a fiction author and a former architect. The house would become a realization of traversing pauses, private spaces, and deeper private extensions. The home becomes a contemplative monolith of mottled concrete and intimate domestic comfort.

A place that becomes fragmented to include green spaces that extend from different interior spaces to the green outside. Coming together as short stories with interlinked lives of spaces within. The subdued restless rumble remains.

Dialectically presenting the seamless melting together of zinc plated modernity and hand poured concrete on site casting basked in benevolent light – imposing and unequivocally accepting. Photography: Pallon Daruwala
The home embodies an expanding necessity for a tentative equilibrium between the monastic and the exuberant ? the latter tucked carefully away into the privacy of the master bedroom and the study spaces.

The journey begins from a wicket zinc door that operates independently on hinges as well as in conjunction with the whole door that is pivoted; with pulleys, it opens louvers for ventilation, within the larger door at its upper part.

Entering from the lowered gargoyle front it marks the entrance. The house opens through a cavern-like space with an unknown destination. The faceted roof moves higher, walls get taller and the width narrower.  The narrow skylight slits wash the w...