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The Orchard House by Ipsa Design Consultants

Architecture

2024

Photographer : Shoot My Space 360

The Orchard house is a weekend retreat for a family in Pune. It is set in a sprawling orchard flanked by hills on the southern side and a panoramic view of the backwater and distant hills on the northern side. 

The house is sited on the highest point in the orchard, offering commanding views of the estate and the landscape beyond. The house is an experiment in neo-vernacular style where contemporary design ideas are expressed in a tropical design vocabulary. 

The design brief given by the clients was minimal. A common living -dining -kitchen area, three bedrooms and a store for the farm produce. The design interprets these programmatic spaces as communal and individual spaces. 

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Architects : Ipsa Design Consultants
Area : 2500 sq. ft.
Year : 2024
Website : https://www.instagram.com/ipsa_design_pune/

Exterior view of The Orchard House by Ipsa Design Consultants


Exterior view of The Orchard House by Ipsa Design Consultants


Living room of The Orchard House by Ipsa Design Consultants

The central volume of the building consists of common areas like living-dining-kitchen. This double heighted volume is capped by an expansive sloping roof covered in Manglore clay tiles. The bedrooms are the individual spaces plugged on to the main central volume. The transition from the communal to the individual is accentuated and interspaced by architectural element like a passage, a stairway, or a bridge. The dichotomy of the communal and individual is expressed in the massing of the building. The house sits on a contoured site thus the natural ground level is used at an advantage to segregate the communal and individual spaces at various levels.


Living room of The Orchard House by Ipsa Design Consultants


Living room of The Orchard House by Ipsa Design Consultants


Dining of The Orchard House by Ipsa Design Consultants


The structure is load bearing with composite basalt stone and red brick masonry walls that run parallel in the north-south direction. The walls in between the parallel composite walls are red brick walls that run in the east-west direction. These walls have deeply recessed and large openings. This enables the house to draw light, wind and views of the hills to the south and the orchard and backwaters to the north. 


Dining of The Orchard House by Ipsa Design Consultants


Corridor of The Orchard House by Ipsa Design Consultants


Staircase of The Orchard House by Ipsa Design Consultants


First floor view of The Orchard House by Ipsa Design Consultants


First floor view of The Orchard House by Ipsa Design Consultants


Bedroom of The Orchard House by Ipsa Design Consultants


Bedroom of The Orchard House by Ipsa Design Consultants


Bedroom 2 of The Orchard House by Ipsa Design Consultants

The building borrows heavily from the architectural vocabulary of the region it sits in. The square rubble masonry walls, hipped roof, timber doors and window frames and shutters to name a few. Most of the wooden elements like the door and window frames, shutters and even the furniture items have been reused/repurposed from the previous a house the clients owned. 

The building integrates with the landscape through terraced patio and lawns. The cobbled pathways, the canopy the existing trees and the monumental stone walls impart a nostalgic yet eternal charm reminiscent of the medieval castles.


Balcony of The Orchard House by Ipsa Design Consultants


Bathroom of The Orchard House by Ipsa Design Consultants



Dusk light exterior view of The Orchard House by Ipsa Design Consultants


Dusk light exterior view of The Orchard House by Ipsa Design Consultants


Aerial view of The Orchard House by Ipsa Design Consultants


Ground floor plan of The Orchard House by Ipsa Design Consultants


First floor plan of The Orchard House by Ipsa Design Consultants



Tags
house
architecture
interior design
residential architecture
residential interiors
2024
2000 to 3000 sq.ft
india
maharashtra
pune
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