Little Much Farm, Mulshi Maharashtra, Mumbai Building Development, Indian Modern Real Estate, Architecture Photos
Little Much Farm in Mulshi Maharashtra
25 Apr 2022
Architecture: Studio LAB
Location: Mulshi, Mumbai, Maharashtra, western India

Photos: PHXINDIA
Little Much Farm, Mumbai
6 acres, 4 bedroom villa, 2 bedroom cottage with pool and a farm
The villa of The Little Much Farm straddles a remote hill side location overlooking the Sahyadri hills of Mulshi and its lake. This is home for a family and their friends to re-engage in the environs of the hills that surround Bombay. The spaces are planned as a series of potential happenings; layered, connected, scalar, with an element of discovery.

This is a site with multiple view points and extreme weather conditions. The design strategy of the roof provides shelter from both monsoon rain and the harsh sun; liberating the forms of the enclosures. The enclosures of the house are a composition of angles informed by the various draws of the site and the eccentricities of its owners. Three single slope mild steel roofs slant in distinct directions creating specific conditions; a windy but dry corner, a crack of sky above the entry, a sheltered monsoon walkway.
The mild steel dia-grid roof structures float above the various interior and exterior spaces. A ship building fabrication team built the steel roof structure on site. Exposed concrete columns built with custom detail form work, hold up the drifting roof planes at strategi...