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India. The house with the gabion

Located in Lonavala, India, the house by Design Spasm features an inverted pitched roof that collects the rainwater.

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  • 28 December 2017
  • Lonavala, India
  • Spasm Design
  • 150 sqm + 250 sqm
  • single family house
  • 2017

This country home starts with a 2,4 m thick gabion wall, which acts as a spine. The first marker which runs for 50 m, from east to west. All spaces have a linear organization, attaching themselves to the Gabion. The house also feature a 3 m wide veranda, which becomes the principal living zone.

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The full-length Y-rain collector makes sure that the water shed by the roof is tamed and shot out away from the veranda. The pool sort of drifts away from the verandah as a reflective mirror plane, pointing to the peak on the opposite shore. Open showers, high rooms, terrazzo en-suites and brass lamps add to the overall frugal natural atmosphere. The Gabion has become overgrown and is ruinous and modern at once.

Spasm Design, The house with the gabion, Lonavala, India, 2017
  • The house with the gabion
  • Lonavala, India
  • Spasm Design
  • Sangeeta Merchant, Tanmay Naik, Deepanshi Sheth, Sancheet Bagtharia, Mansoor Ali Kudalkar, Sanjeev Panjabi
  • Shafique
  • Rajeev Shah
  • Spasm Design
  • A.Y. Retiwalla
  • 150 sqm + 250 sqm
  • 2017
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