Gratitude Villa

Gratitude Eco-Villa is proud to have emerged as the Top Finalist from the Asian Continent (not just from India) for the International “Houses of Tomorrow” Competition by Lafarge Holcim!

CLIENT

Prabodh & Roma

CATEGORY

Independent Home

SUB-CATEGORY

Residential

LOCATION 

Auroville

PROJECT AREA

6,000 sq.ft

LAND AREA

1 acres

Scope

 Architectural Design Sustainability Engineering – strategies for water, waste, energy.

Design tIMELINE

June – Dec 2019

Construction

Ongoing

SPECIAL RECOGNITION

The “Houses of Tomorrow” aims to provide Proof of concept of innovative near-zero CO₂ footprint materials in all 5 continents. Gratitude Eco-Villa is the House of Tomorrow from India, representing Asia on the international stage. The other participating countries are Kenya from Africa, France from Europe, East Canada from North America, and Mexico from South America.

Stepping the main elevation to suit the plot and create interesting balconies
Project Brief

The client has a large family with people in different parts of the world who come together several times a year for celebrating birthdays and special occasions. The clients wanted to build a home near Auroville as a second home for themselves and their family plus hosting a large number of guests on a regular basis.

Deck for planters all around the home
Raising main living spaces to the first floor to invite the breeze
CHALLENGE

The plot was surrounded by lush greenery on all sides. It had a road on 3 sides. However, the shape of the plot was a challenge in this project. It was a triangular-shaped plot with acute angles at two corners. And it needed to accommodate five massive sized bedrooms.

Design

After several iterations, we came up with the idea of stepping the main elevation and having a deck all around the home with every view getting a slice of the sky. The clients loved it! 

Entire home becomes a ‘Hawa Mahal’ !

We developed it further and stacked all services on one side and arranged all semi private spaces as an open plan. Since the bedrooms would be used by visiting guests during certain times of the year, the internal partition walls between bedrooms were converted into movable walls so the clients could enjoy larger bedrooms during the rest of the year. 

The terrace was converted into an active edible farm with a private swimming pool. Due to the large windows on all sides positioned in the wind direction, the entire house becomes a “Hawa Mahal” ! 


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